Broadsides here and there of Jesé Rodriguezformer left winger of Real Madrid and only passing through Sampdoria. In the interview given to the YouTuber ‘Mowlihawk’, in the program Batmowlithe 31-year-old Spaniard looked back at some difficult moments in his career, recalling above all the serious knee injury that made it easier.
The story: “That day changed my life forever. It was one of the worst days of my life. Before that I felt like I was in the best moment of my career. I knew that if I kept that pace, I could compete with anyone. I was young and I was doing very well in the best club in the world, with the greatest pressure Florentino took me to the best surgeon in Germany. When I had the infection and they had to operate on me twice, I said: ‘It’s over.’ When I started to feel better, in my last year with Madrid, La Liga was about to end.”
As for the transfer to PSG in 2016: “If I had wanted, I would have stayed at Madrid, but the PSG option came up. Since I wasn’t playing much, I thought about going to Paris, because I knew I would have playing minutes. And then there was Emery as coach, who called me. Madrid made a lot of signings and I wanted to go to the European Championship with the national team, because I had already been close to playing in the World Cup in Brazil. Furthermore – Jesé admitted – they improved my contract and paid me much more. And look at that in Madrid, where there they paid every six months, they paid very well. I took just under five million euros gross. The first time I saw a million in the account I said: ‘Damn, is this for scoring goals?'”.
The experience in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, however, was not idyllic: “At PSG I made my debut by assisting the winning goal in my first match, but then I was out for two months with appendicitis and, during the winter, they told me I had to leave. I told Emery that I would I felt deceived.” Not only that, the Spaniard also launched a direct attack on the number one of the transalpine club: “The president (Al Khelaifi, ed.) didn’t even want to see me. I don’t know if he liked my wife more than me. They didn’t give me any explanations” , he joked. “You can earn a lot, but they treated me really badly. There I realized that Madrid is the best in the world in everything. I felt like I was dealing with a guy who is a billionaire and uses the players as if they were pawns.”