Pique burned again on the eve of a Classic. After a summer disappeared in the public sphere after 2-8, without activity on social networks and with a thunderous silence in the Messi case, the center-back has given an interview to The vanguard in which, with that daring and sometimes contradictory speech, he is able to say that “my relationship with the president can be cordial” to later pulverize Josep Maria Bartomeu. “It is outrageous that the club has spent money criticizing us,” he shoots for the Barçagate, in which the club hired a company that created social media accounts to criticize club legends. I also hammered points directly to Jaume Masferrer, advisor to the presidency and ideologue of that Barçagate: “He's still working at the club and that's very painful”).
But Piqué has much more to offer. Shoot the club for its management of the salary cut (“The forms of the club have been very bad, we totally disagree”). Yes, He says that he has reached an agreement to renew because “Barça has given me everything, so I have put myself at their disposal”).
He also attacks Bartomeu for the dismissal of Ernesto Valverde (“It didn't seem coherent to me to kick the coach out in the middle of the season, leading and having won the previous two”). And it also talks about the summer storm, Messi's burofax. He also attacks the club for its way of handling the matter: “I asked Leo to hold out, the Camp Nou must bear his name. Messi deserves everything”. Of course, he admits that he was away from him those days: “I didn't have much contact with him those days, it was a very personal matter. I remember I sent him a message saying: It's a year and then new people come. A player who has been 16 years at the club. You are forced to come to an agreement with him. How can the best player in history get up one day and send a burofax because he feels they are not listening to him. It is too shocking. The new stadium must bear your name and then that of the sponsor. ” Piqué continues to dispatch himself in the interview: “It surprises me that people like Guardiola, Xavi, Puyol or Valdés are not in the club. You have to keep them always, they are part of history.”
Piqué's penultimate jewel has to do with the power of the dressing room. This is how the Catalan central defender justifies it: “If at some point the players have had that power, it is because other people have not wanted to exercise it.” Piqué says goodbye saying that he is “moderately optimistic” for the Clásico against Madrid.