Noa Lang has a clear reason for his temporary departure from Napoli. On Tuesday evening, Galatasaray’s left winger talks via video connection Transfer Deadline Show van ESPN honest about his transfer to the Turkish top club.
In conversation with Hans Kraay junior and Ali Boussaboun, among others, the wing attacker said he was happy that he was able to make the move to Turkey.
“Why did I want to leave? It speaks for itself, I think,” Lang begins, smiling. “How am I going to say it in a normal way… It didn’t click with the trainer (Antonio Conte, ed.). Let’s leave it at that.”
“I know that you in the Netherlands often think that it is my fault, but one day it will become known. For now I have a lot of respect for the club where I am under contract.”
“I have a good relationship with almost all the people within the club. It does not suit me, this political behavior,” Lang continues.
When the offer came from Turkey, Lang was not yet sure whether he should go. “To be honest, it took a while. The club speaks for itself. But I am not someone who wants to leave after six months.”
“Nine out of ten people didn’t want me to leave either. I was a good fit in the group, I trained well every day and in the minutes I was given people talked badly about me. But I didn’t agree with that at all. I did well within the playing style. At least, that’s what I think.”
“You have to be treated fairly and I didn’t have that feeling at all,” Lang concludes about Conte. “At first I wanted to fight and I thought I would stay. But there is a World Cup coming up in the summer. So this choice was mainly focused on that.”
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