BARCELONA – Gerard Piqué demoted former Barcelona president Josep María Bartomeu, praised Florentino Pérez, recalled 2-8 against Bayern to assess Barça’s previous successes, announced his intention to retire at Barça. Manchester United and the Spanish national team talked about Sergio Ramos, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, the elections for Barça and his recovery.
During more than two hours of relaxed conversation with Ibai Llanos, one of the most popular streamers in the world on its contraction channel, the Catalan power station, which turned 34 on Tuesday, nothing, or almost nothing, remained in the pipeline. .
Piqué, who in another conversation from the YouTube program “Post United” directed his arrows at Real Madrid because of the refereeing, maintained a very relaxed tone with the famous streamer, hardly avoiding any subject.
“I see Messi very happy and having him by his side is always a guarantee of success … But I don’t know his final intention; this is a question for him,” he warned when asked by the Argentine star, revealing that the Burofax problem “It was a very difficult situation for everyone. On the one hand there is the situation of the club, on the other hand the staff (that of the player himself) and some events happened that ended in the best possible way, because Leo stayed, “he summed up, not wanting to go into much detail about what will happen at the end of the season.
“Failure is part of life,” he proclaimed when he recalled Lisbon 2-8 against Bayern Munich. “It hurts a lot, but this is life. Sometimes life beats your palms and you have to adapt, you have to improve. You always have to look ahead,” explained the Barça central defender, acknowledging that he was a “very strong stick. “and taking the opportunity to then reveal that now” is the time when you appreciate successes, titles … When you’re in the weak season, you understand that you don’t always win.
“You always have to have the ambition to want to win more things. Now that I’ve eaten a lot of shit, you appreciate more that you’re lifting titles. The World Cup and it was another title. That feeling of being young and “You feel unstoppable … you don’t value success so much. Now that they’ve painted our faces, yes,” he said.
“I get along with Sergio Ramos … cordially. I have a good treatment, as I have with the other Real Madrid players,” said Piqué, who, while acknowledging that he always liked the rivalry with the Merengue club at the limit, there was a moment, that of Mourinho, “in which all the red lines were crossed.
“It simply came to our notice then. Let’s not blame him, but he arrived and everything warmed up and when he left everything cooled down. Things are there. I have to put weeds and confuse it in the parameters I consider without crossing a red line and at that moment it was crossed. There were actions such as sticking a finger on Tito Vilanova. And the media and the Madrid campaign seemed like nothing was happening. We already know how it works. Then, over time, it was shown that you can have friends with the rival, while maintaining the sporting rivalry.
He was less condescending to Bartomeu, who he said “lacks leadership. I treat him well and, as a person, I don’t see him hurting, but you have to have the skills to lead a club like Barça, which is I told him several times: “Press, come to the sports center, we’ll talk”, but he never showed up …
“When you avoid bad moments, everything gets complicated, more problems arise and things get worse; if you escape, you do not appear and become delegated mountains. You need to know how to make decisions for the club to succeed. There were times when leadership was needed to emerge. When there are problems, you have to know how to solve them, take the bull by the horns ”.
In this regard, he compared the leadership of the former president of Barcelona with Florentino Pérez at Real Madrid, stating that President Merengue “is a person who has a gift of command. With his decisions, which you may like or not, shows that he is the leader Everyone will have their opinion, but at least it shows that they have an idea and they know where they are going. With Ramos, with Cristiano at that time … with all kinds of players. He has a quality that with Bartomeu was not the specialty of the house “.
“Now there are elections at Barça and I hope that the partner still votes with Covid’s limitations. The three candidates are competent”, he said without positioning himself and trusting that the result is the best for the Barça club: “We have to look towards the future And I am sure that whoever comes out will do well ”.
On a personal level, he did not advance if he maintains the idea of becoming president of Barça. “Now all I try to do is learn. I learned good and bad things from Bartomeu, Rosell, Laporta … I try to learn from everyone, because everyone can give you a point of view. I don’t know what I will do. “Now in a few years. Now I play football, I will try to continue as long as possible and when I see that I can not raise my hand and go home. Then a new life will come, but there is an abyss. It is difficult to adapt. and you have to be prepared, “he said.
Referring to Cristiano Ronaldo, whom he met at Manchester United, Piqué agreed that he maintains a “good relationship” with the Portuguese, describing him as “a winner, who always competes and has brutal conditions. Cristiano’s immense value is that at a time when Leo was the best, he managed to win five golden balloons. It’s a great achievement, a revolt … When I met him, I thought he would be a very great player, although not at the level of Messi, whom we already saw as number one in our Barça career ” .
Thus, he revealed that in football, the atmosphere in the locker room for a long time and reminded that in the Red Devils he was very different from Barça. “There’s a brutal black humor in England. I felt really good in the locker room. Evra came in with some Nike shoes and started showing off. She goes to the gym and we burn our shoes with gasoline and we record a video and I sent it to her.When I found out who she is, I return her and so on every day … That’s impossible here … When I got to Barcelona, I tried to do the same, but they didn’t understand each other. We made a couple and that’s it. Deflate someone’s wheels. Go out, miss everything and threaten yourself. In Barcelona they didn’t give you the opportunity to follow the joke chain. “
Despite this, Piqué said that in the Barça club, the atmosphere, being different from that of ManU, is also one of camaraderie: “There are characters that drive you crazy. Jordi Alba, then Aleix Vidal, who gives life to dressing. 5 “A good wardrobe, which is fun, is cool, it’s very important.”
Going through the tips of Neymar, “it’s a sensitive issue in Can Barça and it’s better not to go in. There have been other things in life and you’ve been wrong millions of times and you’re learning,” the center-back stressed that during his time with the team Spanish “I felt very good. There was always a special atmosphere, not only with the players, but also with the staff. The national team was a family for me.
“I also spent a lot of time in Madrid and I never found a bad face. Everyone greets you, a photo … It’s not a bad experience. In this sense, I can only speak well of all my experience with the national team. It has been a few years since this whole debate was generated with the political issue, but I am looking for the positive side and I was motivated to show that I can help the team as much as possible “.