The agent of midfielder Frenkie de Jong has revealed how then Barcelona general manager Pep Segura cried when they signed his agent.
“It became a tug of war, where PSG, Manchester City and Juventus did almost everything to get Frenkie. But Barcelona had always been his first choice, his football was at stake, his DNA,” Hasan Cetinkaya explained to Aftonbladet, as cited by Marca.
“The sports officials of Barcelona were so relieved that then general sports manager Pep Segura began to cry as soon as the documents were written. They had tremendous pressure to close the agreement.