Barça punishes Heurtel, the basketball 'Figo' who lied to go to Madrid

Thomas Heurtel, base of the FC Barcelona of basketball, tried to turn into the 'new Luis Figo' betraying to the Barcelona club to sign by the Real Madrid​. And it did it with very bad practical, communicating him to the club culé that his intention was to sign by the Fenerbahçe Turkish to be able to terminate the agreement. However, the Catalan entity enteró of his lies an hour before the signature, by what paralysed his course.

The worst of everything is that, as 'Sportive World', Thomas Heurtel pretended to earn 1,2 million euros of the FC Barcelona in concept of compensation by his rescission, whereas the Real Madrid went to complement this quantity with 500.000 euros. An agreement that already was closed and by which, logically, the Barcelona group has decided not happening and deny him the course to the basic French to retain him in the club and not to leave him play.

Before the sucedido, the FC Barcelona had played against the Anadolu Efes of Istanbul (losing by 86-19) and Thomas Heurtel had taken advantage of the situation to communicate that it would take advantage of this trip to concretise his signing by the Fenerbahçe, club of the same city. But everything went to rack and ruin when the club culé knew at first hand that said team did not have the more ínimo interest by the player Frenchman.

So big was the anger of the FC Barcelona with Thomas Heurtel that the club did not allow him to the basic French go up to the aeroplane of return to Barcelona and left him thrown in Istanbul. It will be necessary to see how finish the subject but the most likely is that this do not go back to play with the Barcelona T-shirt but that neither can leave and see forced to train with the filial. By his part, the Frenchman could sue to the Barça.

Another 'case Figo'

The signing of Luis Figo by the Real Madrid in the year 2000 is considered one of the greater betrayals futbolísticas of the history. The Portuguese player, that carried five seasons in the Barcelona team, signed a draft agreement with Florentino Pérez in which purportedly it earned a quantity in return that if the current white president won the elections, had to leave to the white group.

Unexpectedly, Florentino Pérez won them to him to Lorenzo Sanz that came to conquer the Glass of Europe, by what Luis Figo had to go to the Real Madrid or indemnify to the white team with 35 million euros. The Portuguese, in spite of that arrepintió of his decision, saw forced to go to the eternal rival being repudiated for life by the fans of the FC Barcelona. Thomas Heurtel has tried to repeat the betrayal 20 years afterwards, but has gone out him badly.