Sergiño Dest He couldn’t succeed at Barcelona. Ronald Koeman signed him and gave him confidence, but with the arrival of Xavi to the bench everything changed. The one from Terrasa did not trust him and the American had to go on loan a couple of times. Dest ultimately left Barcelona to sign for PSV with whom he is waiting to play again once he has overcome his injury. The footballer reviewed his stay at Barcelona in an interview with Sport.
The entity was in a kind of depression, and it was a bit of chaos
“These were not good times for the club. The entity was in a kind of depressionthere were many extra-sports problems and it was a bit of chaos. The results suffered because nor could important signings be made. And then everything is chained. The ‘this player has to leave’, ‘the other one is very bad’… all of that weighs heavily,” said the American.
Dest, in training at the Ciudad Deportiva.
Dest also points to Xavi as one of the reasons why he could not succeed at Barcelona: “I think he was not honest with me. We had several conversations in which He told me something but then I doubted if it was really true. In the summer, before going on vacation, he told me “I’m counting on you, don’t read the press.” And as soon as he returned, he told me “you have to go.”
Despite everything, he doesn’t regret anything. He has a clear conscience and did what he could to have a place in the team: “I wouldn’t say I regret it, because in the end it was something that didn’t depend on me, but I don’t feel like I had the necessary opportunities with Xavi. I felt like I had to play with limits, that I wasn’t myself. “I wanted to join the attack, because that is my greatest virtue, but he asked me not to go up.”
