Last update 8 January, 2024 by Alberto Llopis
Year 1998, Emmanuel Petit wins with France the World Cup of which he and his team were hosts. He does it as one of the key pieces of a team that would make history. In turn, this French long blond ponytail and image heartthrob ninety, He is currently triumphing in the ranks of an Arsenal that that same year had swept the Premier League and had also won the FA Cup..
All this, its price rose to the limit that in the year 2000 and with part of the ten billion pesetas that Barcelona, chaired by John Gaspart, had been paid for the transfer of Figo to Real Madrid, decided to invest in this player who at that time was a super world class.
Petit's rant about his time at Barcelona
Born in 1970, passing through the Barcelona was a disaster more so after side 2500 million old pesetas and having put a dizzying salary. Curdle not reached either within or outside the country where their stay apart unproductively for the club and being an economic ruin, It was a real hell for the French. So he came to have in his memoirs where he went on to state that the directors of Barcelona at that time “They were a liantes, They seemed carpet sellers”.
also he sent to be his coach Lorenzo Serra Ferrer who came to call “and incompetent clown”. His situation in Barcelona was such that he admitted that he often left training crying and even went so far as to install a “Punching Ball”in his garage so as not to end up attacking anyone since he himself stated that he came to “feel like hurting someone”.
Possibly, that was Barcelona's worst period in the last decades. And the management of Joan Gaspart, It will not go down in history as one of the best and on transfer, economic or sports where he came to hold a fourth in 2001 after that great Chilean goal from Rivaldo In the last minute. Times that now seem very, very far away, especially in the conditions in which Spanish professional football currently operates..