Sakho remembers the reason why he rejected Barça

The FC Barcelona was looking for as crazy a central in the year 2013 in front of the possible withdrawal of Carles Puyol. The eternal captain barcelonista at the end did not put end to his carrra until the 2014, but the Barcelona preferred to be previsores the previous summer. Although at the end it did not arrive any defence this summer, one of the players by which the Barça interested was Mamadou Sakho, then defender of Paris Saint-Germain.

The French has spoken of the interest blaugrana in him and of the reason by which decided to leave of the PSG, where was an important bastion. His dream to play in the Premier League was sufficient so that it did the cases. "I decided to go me simply because it had won it everything with the PSG. It had fulfilled my aims and wanted to discover another championship, not finish my career with the bad flavour of not knowing the English championship, of not learning the English, of not discovering another culture...", it commented in an interview to 'Stadium Mag'.

As he same has recognised, the Barça, the Bayern of Munich and the Arsenal asked after his situation. Finally, the player decided to accept the proposal of the Liverpool, that always had been a special club for him. "Tuve A lot of proposals, included the ones of the Barcelona, the ​​Bayern, the Arsenal and the Liverpool. I chose Liverpool because it was one of the clubs of my dreams, with a big history", aimed.

In Anfield happened four seasons in which it went through a lot of altibajos. Had moments of big football in which it was important, but others in which it failed too much and sinned of irregular. In spite of this and of his turbulent exit in 2017 for giving positive in an anti-doping control, Sakho admits that it was very happy there. "Had the luck to be able to play there during four seasons with the T-shirt of the 'reds' in Anfield, with some wonderful fans", remembered.

Besides, the central did memory and mentioned to several 'cracks' with which shared changing room and moments. The Frenchman played with Luis Suárez, Gerrard or Coutinho and enjoyed a lot of these years of football. "Had very good relations with the directive and me codeé with big talents like Suárez, Coutinho, Sturridge or Steven Gerrard. I lived exceptional moments with these players", concluded.

Sakho Has had problems with the injuries

At the end, in 2017, Jürgen Klopp decided to teach him the door of exit and the defender saw forced to leave to Crystal Palace. In the English group has been indisputable these years whenever the injuries have allowed it to him. This course, for example, has been able to play only eight parties by fault of the physical problems. With 30 years still would have to have three or four to big level, but after his exit of the Liverpool has not gone back to be the one of before, by what it will be necessary to see how advances his career.