Samuel Eto'or and Pep Guardiola in a party of the FC Barcelona

THE CAMEROONIAN REMAINED IN THE CAMP NOU

Samuel Eto'or speech on his bad relation with Pep Guardiola

Published:22/12/2017 - 09:49h

Updated:22/12/2017 - 16:05h

Today it is one of the best trainers of the world, but when Pep Guardiola arrived to the FC Barcelona was little more than an incógnita. It is very known his bad relation with Samuel Eto'or, and the Cameroonian has gone back to reveal another anecdote with the technician

Calendar of FC Barcelona

Today it dominates the Premier League with a brilliant Manchester City, but the starts of Pep Guardiola were not easy. It arrived to a FC Barcelona in crisis and took some controversial decisions, bumping with some of the heavy weights of the changing room. One of them, Samuel Eto'or, does not remember with too much affection the arrival of the Catalan. 

And it is that the Cameroonian has remembered in several occasions that did not like him the deal of the of Santpedor in his brief Barcelona stage. At all more land, the technician aimed that to the forward, to Ronaldinho and to Deco wanted to them out of the team. It attained it with the Brazilian and the Portuguese, but cost him something more with the African.

"When Guardiola wanted to throw me of the club said him that it had not been a big player, only a good player. It is truth, said it to him and remember it exactly. Like trainer had not showed at all to arrive to a changing room like the one of the Barça, without knowing his history, and say some things. What more hurt me was that it invented things that the press said", commented Samuel in an interview.

But it did not finish here, and it explained the anecdote of his frustrated course to Uzbekistan: "I gathered Me with him reason arrived me a very good offer to play six months in Uzbekistan, where paid me 26 million dollars. In his office said me 'can be well for tí, go you for there'. And I answered him 'the one who goes you to do win goes to be Eto'or and go to come to ask me pardon'. And I remained me".

Profitable relation

Although the relation between Guardiola and Eto'or did not last too much and a summer afterwards the attacker enfilaba the way of the Inter of Milan, can say that yes it was very profitable for the Barça. In his last campaign like Barcelona the Cameroonian annotated 36 goals in all the competitions and was key piece in the triplete, aiming even a goal in the final of the Champions against the Manchester United.

Next match of FC Barcelona

La Liga | Jornada 33
FC Barcelona
Valencia

FC Barcelona - Valencia

Monday, 29 of April of 2024 21:00h
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Buy tickets
Calendar FC Barcelona
Today highlights

Most read