Piqué, sincere: “If Messi was renewed, the numbers were going to be very complicated”

‘El País’ publishes this Sunday an interview with Gerard Piqué in which the central defender once again touches on the issue of his retirement. After hinting at Movistar this Friday about his retirement (“I don’t know how much I have left”), he now sets his date: when he is not the starter: “I will retire at Barça. That is sure. What I will not accept is to retire as a substitute. Let’s see, if it’s the last three months of a season and it’s my turn, well. But a whole year on the bench? No, I don’t feel like it “.

Piqué is not only talking about the future. Also from the past and the mortgage of the second triplet of the club in its history: “The triplet of 2014-15 was more expensive than ever. In January of that year, the intention to vote for Bartomeu was less than 1% and then You won them, it is a lesson to members that results are not everything. For winning the treble, for six very good months on the field … The club is not only what happens on the field of play. Yes, it has enormous value, but there are many other things. And the situation in which the club is is evident that it is due to the management of recent years. COVID gives to hide certain things, but not to hide everything. It is the truth, the crude truth. “

The center-back was more neutral with Messi’s goodbye. He admits that the Argentine gave them everything on the pitch, but also that the club’s financial situation was not easy: “I understand numbers but the Fair Play issue is hard for me to understand. I don’t know. I, I feel with the president and it is clear that yes or yes I have to reach an agreement because otherwise you cannot sign up for a transfer. And I think that if Leo was renewed the numbers would be very complicated … I don’t know if it was feasible or not by all making a monumental effort. I don’t have the information. “

And, at the time of the Classic, he maintains that it is still the game that puts him the most: “Yes, by far.”