“I knew that I would play a little less at the beginning of the season than before,” he commented.
“The club is on the rise again, when I play it’s great and in terms of life it’s perfect,” he adds
Frenkie de Jong was one of the protagonists of the last transfer market. The midfielder seemed doomed to leave Barça and head towards the Premier League, where Manchester United and Chelsea awaited him. However, the will of the Dutchman prevailed and his goal of succeeding at the Camp Nou remains intact.
“I really wanted to show that I am better than the others and that I deserve to be among the starting eleven“, the footballer has expressed in an interview with ‘De Telegraaf’. “Due to the situation I was in, I knew that I would play a little less at the beginning of the season than before. He had regular minutes, would come in and play a game once in a while,” he adds.
The midfielder acknowledges that he is very happy in the Catalan capital. “I think the club is now on the rise again, it has started to grow. When I play it’s great and in terms of life it’s perfect“.
Regarding the leaks of his contract with Barça, De Jong explained that “a newspaper published things about my contract. I didn’t leak it and there was only one other party who also had the contract. So that had to come from the club and you think: it’s not necessary. And suddenly there was a clamor about whether my contract was in force, because the previous president Bartomeu could no longer close it. He irritated me that the club did it, but I had no influence on it.”