The newspaper "MD" has explained, after Koke recognised that the FC Barcelona interested by his signing does two seasons, just after the Athletic of Madrid conquered the title of League BBVA, that the club rojiblanco offered a central to the Barça so that it forgot of the incorporation of Koke, the one who besides had the will to be still in the Manzanares.
"Something happened, but finish to win a League. How it went me to go?", it ensured Koke in an interview. Justo when it finished the course, the Athletic decided to renew him, equalise him the wage to what offered him the Barça by his services and go up him the clause of rescission until the 60 million euros.
The Barça, when seeming, posed even credit the price of the clause to have like this to the one who considered the perfect relief of Xavi Hernández, but the fact that Koke wanted to remain in the Athletic threw backwards definitively to the culés, those who luckily saw how Xavi remained a last course more in the team, becoming an important man from the bench.
The quoted half has informed also that, during the contacts that kept the Barça with the Athletic, the rojiblancos offered to the FC Barcelona a central so that they changed of aim and did not fix in Koke Resurrection, to the one who the Athletic wanted to turn into "player franchise". In these moments found in the staff of the "Cholo" Simeone José María Giménez, Diego Godín and Joao Miranda.
Probably it was this last the one who was offered directly to the Barcelona, since shortly after it was traspasado this same summer to the Inter of Milan, leaving place so that it arrived to the Athletic Savic, and so that it also progressed Lucas Hernández, of the quarry. "Koke Is intrasferible, a basic player for the Cholo Simeone. There is not more than speaking", limited to leave clear the Athletic to Barça and Chelsea, that also interested by the Spanish midfield player. Two seasons afterwards, the FC Barcelona has changed of aims.