FC Barcelona has to listen to fierce criticism from one of its former players. Christophe Dugarry is severely reproaching the Catalans.
One could say that FC Barcelona is in a difficult phase.
But one could also put it much more drastically. Like former world and European champion Christophe Dugarry, for example.
“It’s a club of clowns,” the Frenchman explained in an interview with the radio station RMC. “They do everything backwards. I have the impression that they have no concept.”
Dugarry, who is now 47, ran for Barca in 1997, but couldn’t make it.
The always opinionated ex-professional did not leave a good hair on the head of his former club: “Barcelona has many problems and the biggest is that the image is bad.”
A club of this size “should really have people with elegance and class”. But “It is indeed a club without class.” The only priority of the president (Josep Maria Bartomeu, editor’s note) is his own re-election.
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It’s above all the transfer policy that bothers him: “They buy coutinho or dembélé, they buy boys and then sell them.” In every transfer window there’s a problem. “They’ve been buying very badly since Xavi and Iniesta left.”
Dugarry’s scathing record follows a public disagreement between Barcelona’s sports director Éric Abidal and superstar Lionel Messi.