This Tuesday the signing of Ferran Torres for him Manchester City. The English club will pay 23 million euros fixed plus 12 variables and the player commits for five seasons. Before leaving, the footballer wanted to clarify various aspects of his departure from Valencia in an interview with ‘Marca’ after receiving some criticism of his decision.
Among other things, he talks about his relationship with the wardrobe. “Equal He is a great player but personally I have never had a relationship with him. When I joined the first team, when I was 17 years old, many weeks passed before he dedicated a simple “Good morning” to me. I don't think he was a good captain with me. The worst came with the departure of Marcelino. Kang-in and I were used as culprits in the locker room, and we were stopped talking for weeks, ”he says.
Of the Asturian coach, he states that “he is a great coach. I am sure that if any of us were lucky enough to meet at another club, he would personally treat me differently. He knows”.
Ferran assures that about his new stage that he is “very happy and excited, although at the same time very sad because I am leaving the team of my life. It is the team that has given me everything and has trained me since I was seven years old, but also where I have had hard moments, in which I have been frustrated, that led me to make the decision to leave. The problem is that there are people within the club and a few journalists who are determined to make me ill and to stain my image. I refuse to get out of Valencia badly because I am Valencianista ”.
Foios explained that “when the club made the decision to sign me into the first team, without my forcing anything, I began to receive pressure and criticism to be rejected. And not just me. They also wanted to harm and discredit my representatives and my family. Although, luckily, it was only a few means. The same people who now campaign against me, said then that we were wrong and that I would fail, something that at just 17 years old hurt a lot. Just as I say that, I have to admit that many other media and journalists have always treated me with love and respect. Even now that there are club employees working to stain my image. ”
The midfielder says that “I started thinking about leaving last summer, when I returned with all the excitement after having won the European Under-19 Championship and the club told me personally and my agent that they did not have me. They literally told me that I was the fifth winger in the squad, that reinforcements were also coming and that other teammates from other areas of the field were going to be ahead of me. It was a very hard blow for me, although the worst was that the club also put me on the market. Valencia offered me to all the teams in Spain and they called us 12 First Division clubs, including Levante, apart from one of the Second. When the club put me on the market is when I started thinking about leaving. ”
And he adds that “there have been other very complicated moments, such as the break by COVID. I gave positive and I was scared by everything I saw and heard and at the same time I received campaigns and criticism directed from the club by various media … That was definitive. “
Ferran denies that he did not want to renew and explains how the conversations went. “When César entered the club there were many meetings. By then we already knew the conditions that the market offered us, because, as I said before, my name had been on the market since summer, and my agent told César literally: “We have done our job and now you have to buy back Ferran Because it was the club that put it on the market. ” To buy back from me, as my agent told you, we asked that at least two of the three conclusions we made be followed. One is that Peter Lim was involved in my renewal, to show me that I was important to the club. Another was to be a captain, which was my dream, because I had seen how other clubs had done that with the youth of the house, such as Oyarzabal or Fernando Torres, to retain them. And the third was to be among the highest-paid players on the roster. There were two of three … And none was fulfilled. Cesar's reaction was that everything was unfeasible. And right after that he did two things: he used the loudspeaker of various media to reveal verbatim words that had been said between him and my agent, and he made me a single offer, which my agent received on February 24, 2020 by email. It was an offer that did not fulfill anything, which we had previously responded to, and in return we received a kind of pressure … To put it kindly ”.
He spoke to Guardiola
Finally, of his new destination he comments that “it is a club to win everything and it has the best coach in the world. I think that there I will improve and learn many things. I spoke to Guardiola. It was a very exciting time for me. He gave me a lot of peace of mind and congratulated me. That helped me a lot to calm down and make me want to go a lot more. ”