Arturo Vidal, during a training with the Inter of Milan

HE EXPLAINED WHY HE LEFT

Aruro Vidal: "In Barça I was happy, but the things changed"

Published:7/11/2020 - 16:21h

Updated:8/11/2020 - 23:32h

The Chilean midfield player of the Inter of Milan, Arturo Vidal, offered an interview to the half Italian 'Ran dello Sport' and spoke on his exit of the Barcelona

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Arturo Vidal was one of the players that abandoned the Camp Nou during the market of signings of the summer, after Ronald Koeman communicated him that it did not go in between his plans of face to the season 2020-2021. The Chilean fichó by the Inter of Milan of Antonio Conte by one million euros in variables, a figure more than symbolic. Two years before, the blaugranas had paid him to the Bayern Munich around 18 'kilos' to carry to the midfield player to the City Condal.

It was one of the operations of the FC Barcelona during the market to lighten the mass salarial, but now Arturo Vidal has revealed that that was not the only reason by which finished abandoning Barcelona. In an interview to the Italian newspaper 'Coriere dello Sport', the Chilean confessed and said that in the picture blaugrana "was well: there was a good group there, with mates that have done more than friends". Vidal expressed that "when one is happy, wants to remain where is. After this, the things changed and took the decision to come to the Inter" and that now has "hunger to win the Scudetto and the dream to win the Champions"

In the Series To, Arturo Vidal is rival of Cristiano Ronaldo, always compared with Lionel Messi. However, for the Chilean can not exist comparison since "I Read is of another planet. A lot of things of which live together will remain in my heart, our friendship will last for ever". Regarding the future of the Argentinian, immersed in rumours regarding his exit, puntualizó that expects that "it was happy and that take his decision with the heart" and did not close the door to a together future in the Inter "do not know it, will see. I am here...", it finalised.

New beginning in the Inter

In addition to speaking on the reasons that carried him to abandon the Barcelona, also commented that it was his current trainer, Antonio Conte, the one who convinced him to give the jump to Giuseppe Meazza. "I am here mainly by him. We were three years in the Juventus, win and was an unforgettable experience" declared.

His relation with the Italian technician is very good and his performance in the beginning of campaign has turned him into one of the players 'fixed' in the approach of Conte. Vidal recognised that the technician wanted to him and that spoke a lot the past summer and that "so much he like the club did all the possible so that it joined me to the Inter".

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