Braithwaite and the secret negotiation with Barcelona: “I left the house to answer the phone, my wife thought I had a lover …”

The market is a constant source of surprises. And even if the negotiations often end up on the front page, sometimes it is possible to carry out transfers without anyone knowing. Including the family of those directly involved …

The market is a constant source of surprises. And even if the negotiations often end up straight on the front page, sometimes it is possible to carry out transfers without anyone knowing. Including the family of those directly involved. This is demonstrated by the statements of Martin Braithwaite, who in February 2020 made the big leap from Leganes to Barcelona. The Danish striker was a surprise blow by the Blaugrana, who acted in the shadows with the complicity of the player. To the point that, as he himself explained some time ago at DailyMaileven his wife was unaware of what was about to happen …

So many secrets, too many. And such a peculiar behavior as to give strange ideas. “I didn’t tell anyone. I felt that not telling my wife right away would be a disrespect, because we share our life. But I knew she suspected there was something going on, because I got a lot of phone calls and got out of my way. secretly home, in the cold to the freezing cold. And she began to ask herself a few questions … She almost asked me if by chance I had a mistress. ” Yes, a mistress dressed in blaugrana, at least from the point of view of the Leganes. Barcelona paid the clause to the Madrid club, which could not even replace the Dane because his was an “out of market” purchase due to Dembelè’s injury.

But, returning to Braithwaite’s family troubles, the attacker couldn’t even take away the satisfaction of surprising his wife. All the fault of the indiscretions, which anticipated the speech that the center forward had prepared. “Then, the day I wanted to tell her everything, the news hit the papers and I thought ‘oh shit’. I sat down with her for dinner and said ‘I have to tell you something.’ And she replied that she already knew everything, her phone had been ringing all the time that day. And I was disappointed not to have the shock reaction I expected from her, but at least she was very very happy … “. Since her husband ended up playing with Messi after he was the bench at Middlesbrough, understandable that he was …