Jese was a top talent on arrival in France but played just 18 games in four yearsThe winger, who even ended up at Stoke, has now made some stunning claimsThis Man City team is DONE and Pep Guardiola has been sleeping on the job - LISTEN NOW to It's All Kicking Off! New episodes every Monday and Thursday By SAM LAWLEY Published: 05:28 EST, 3 December 2024 | Updated: 05:28 EST, 3 December 2024
Former Paris Saint-Germain star Jese has launched into a furious attack on the club and its president, four years after his unsuccessful spell there finally came to an end.The Spaniard headed to France from Real Madrid as a highly-rated winger keen to improve his game time after struggling with the competition of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale.Hopes were high for the £21million star upon his arrival at the Parc des Princes on a five-year deal, with Jese featuring 28 times in the league for Los Blancos the season prior and on nine occasions in a Champions League-winning campaign. But things flopped sensationally for the winger after he was struck down with appendicitis and failed to get back into the team, making just 18 appearances for PSG in a torturous four-year stint at the side.The once prodigious talent became a journeyman, heading off to the likes of Las Palmas and Sporting Lisbon. He even ended up at Stoke for the 2017-18 campaign. Now plying his trade for Johor DT in Malaysia, Jese has spoken out about his failed spell at the French giants, and made some stunning claims about club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, in an interview with YouTuber Mowlihawk. He said: 'If I had wanted to, I would have stayed in Madrid, but then the PSG option came up. 'Plus, I didn't have much playing time and thought I would play in Paris. Unai Emery was the coach there and he was the one who called me.'Real Madrid had a lot of new signings, I wanted to go to the Euros [2016], I was about to go to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. 'Del Bosque wanted to call me, but I was injured. And PSG paid me a lot more. And remember, I already earned a lot at Real Madrid. When I saw a million euros in my account for the first time, I thought: "All just to score goals?"'At PSG, I started my first game with the decisive pass that won the match, but then I was knocked out for two months with appendicitis. In January, they told me I had to leave. 'I told Emery that I felt like I had been screwed over. The president [Al-Khelaifi] didn't even want to see me in person. Maybe he liked my wife more than me. 'They didn't give me any explanation. You could make a lot of money, yes, but they treated me really, really badly.'Jese summarised the ideal by saying: 'I realized that Real Madrid is the best club in the world in every way. At PSG, it's a guy who is a billionaire and uses the players.'
It is not clear what the Spaniard meant by his remark regarding his wife Aurah Ruiz, who he has been married to for two years having been together for some time. Ruiz is an internet personality and has been involved with hit Spanish reality TV show Supervivientes. She posts pictures of herself posing while on holiday, out for dinner or spending quality time with her husband to her Instagram account which boasts 650,000 followers.Al-Khelaifi was once a professional tennis player before entering the world in business where he has rose to become chairman of beIN Media Group and Qatar Sports InvestmentsHe has been the chief executive and president of PSG since 2011, presiding over a period of vast success for the French side which has seen them win 10 league titles and sign megastars including Neymar, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe.PSGReal Madrid