Barcelona look like a ruin and that is pretty much a consequence of everything that happened in the past years behind the stage at the Nou Camp.There are many players that have passed through Barcelona camp in the last four or five years, without leaving any trace and one of them is Junior Firpo, a left back who arrived from Betis in the summer of 2019 for the sum of over 20 million USD – plus 13.5 million through bonuses that he failed to meet.Average, ordinary, uninspiring – that’s BarcelonaFirpo failed to meet them because he went to Leeds after two years as the English team bought him for 17 million USD. However, the footballer from Santo Domingo has still not made his peace with the fact that he got almost zero chance to prove himself at Barca since the moment Ronald Koeman stepped into the locker room.”In that period I got to a point that I lost any passion for football, then I realized how important family is to every person. There were things happening with Koeman that I did not understand, and he showed disrespect to me and my teammates several times.”I don’t understand that the day after the game, when the substitutes train, you spend the whole training session in your office!? If I am a reserve and I want to prove myself to you, then how can I do that?” Firpo told Cadena SER.The defender from the Dominican Republic adds that the worst moment was when he went to talk to Koeman face to face.”I asked him to explain to me what was happening, and he started lying to me. He told me things that had nothing to do with reality. He told me how badly I trained, how I contaminated the group … You can ask any member of the staff about me, let’s see if they will tell you any of that.”Sun, 18.15: (4.40) OSASUNA (3.60) BARCELONA (1.92)The second part of Koeman’s sentence was especially unclear to Firpo.”How can someone who has just arrived, a kid, contaminate a group that has won everything there is in the world before that and has been there all its life!” My opinion will certainly not influence them to change the way they train or anything else.”Last year, Firpo moved to Leeds and explained, among other things, the difference between Marcelo Bielsa and the coach he had in Barcelona.”We did not watch videos of the opponent under Valverde, Setien and Koeman. Maybe sometimes with only a particular segment. While with Bielsa we watch a lot of videos, to get to know our opponent. I went from one extreme to another. There must be some middle ground” Firpo said.
