Xavi Simons tells, for the first time, the whole truth about his departure from Barça: “It was clear on his part”

Xavi Simons (23 years old) He left Barça in 2019 without having signed a professional contract despite being, at that time, one of the great pearls of world football. The midfielder went to Paris Saint-Germain and then everyone said that he had done it for money.

Something that had nothing to do with reality, as the footballer himself has now explained in an interview with ‘The Sports Agents’: “It was clear on their part that they did not believe in me. At that moment I chose not to speak because I was only focused on the field, but They told me ‘we have other players we believe in.’ and we want to offer you a contract, but you are not one of the players who is really in the project.’ For me the decision is clear and people don’t know what happened, they have an opinion of what they heard, but that is the true story,” said the midfielder.

And he added: “I have been there all my life. I have gone through different situations, I have lived everything there, My whole childhood was there, so I love the club. Everything that came out hurt me and my family also. The case was simple: They just preferred other guys. at that time and for me it was fine. “I had PSG with a really big project at 16 years old, training with the best players in the world, so the decision was easy.”

“When my friends ask me, I tell them that this It’s the best decision I’ve made so far.. People may say that I wasn’t playing but, of course, I had Neymar, Messi and Mbappé by my side. So it’s really difficult because they want to play every game, but it was the best experience I could have, because I learned from them,” Simons concluded.