Thomas Heurtel is one of the best leaders in Europe and an important member of the France team for years. What happens to him with his future ex-club FC Barcelona is quite surreal and not far from unheard of. The last episode of the quarrel between the 31-year-old player and the Catalan formation, which he has been announced on the departure for a few weeks, has turned tragicomic.
According to El Mundo Deportivo, Thomas Heurtel was punished by Barça, with whom he flew to Turkey, where the team lost in the Euroleague against Efes Istanbul. Except that instead of removing him from the group once back in Spain, the Barcelona leaders have outright forbidden him access to the plane to return to the country!
Barca apparently felt betrayed by the player and his representatives. Thomas Heurtel, supposed to be in advanced negotiations with Fenerbahçe with a possible exchange with Léo Westermann, would have preferred to discuss in the shadows with Real Madrid, the enemy club of FC Barcelona.
We want to understand that the management of Barça has it bad and no longer wants to count Heurtel in its workforce. But voluntarily leaving a member of the team on foreign soil in the midst of a pandemic, far from his family, is still frankly scandalous.
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Kevin Seraph, passed by Barça, is one of the players and former players to have reacted strongly to this unlikely situation.
“You have to change the way you look at this club. I’m not surprised by that. The fans are amazing, but the management is just a bunch of followers. I’ll give them a brain for Christmas.”
Mike James, from CSKA Moscow, is also shocked.
“I wonder how they could not have let him on the plane. I have always considered Barca as a benchmark, but if that is what happened, it is a shame. So we don’t want you in this club anymore, but we want to decide where you’re going to go. We’re not under a dictatorship. If you don’t want me anymore, let me go and I’ll decide what’s the point. better for my family, ”the American tweeted.
We hope for a favorable outcome for Thomas Heurtel after this unusual end of the year …
