Joao Felixwho this season is playing on loan in the Barcelona for Atlético de Madridadmitted that he did not even adapt to the club’s ideas Mattress maker nor those of the team coach, Diego Simeone.
“Football is like that, whoever is bad has to change places. I have done it before for Chelsea and I have done it now for Barcelona, because I was not good there, I did not adapt to the ideas of the club and the coachbut I have always tried to do the best I could and I have had very good times there too,” explained the Portuguese player.
Before his signing was a reality, he already said, in a statement to the journalist Fabrizio Romanothat his dream was to wear the shirt of the Barça and now he does not close the door on continuing to play for the club after June 30, 2024, when the loan ends. “Barcelona is the one who has to negotiate with Atleti and that depends after Atleti, if they want to make things easier or not. But that’s business stuff., of values, which I don’t get involved in. I do my job on the field, I try to do my best so that they want to sign me in the end and that depends on the values, on whether I go or not go or for how much, it doesn’t suit me,” she stressed.
Joao Felix He also acknowledged that he gave up “a significant amount of money” from his salary to play for the Catalan club, although he insisted that he needed to go somewhere where he could practice his football. “As I’ve always said, I thought this would be the ideal place. Things are going well and I had to make that effort to have joy playing again“, he concluded.
