> “I can’t say much more than what reality is. We have made a formal and correct offer. When I was a player, the president of Porto did not let me go to Barça,” he added.
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> “He told me to stay one year and the next I could go wherever I wanted. I stayed and the option I had was to play well and wait for the next year. I had the offer from Chelsea, who paid more, but I wanted to go to Barça.”
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> “We have the information we have. We have done things well. We launched an offer and there was no response. There has been more talk in the press. We talk to them in a respectful way. They told us that they didn’t want to sell.
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> “You can’t always be bringing up the same issue. There is much more social pressure than reality. There are no more turns on this. Barça did not tell Julián to publicly express his desire to leave Atletico.”