Barcelona midfielder Fermin Lopez has admitted he thought about leaving the club last summer after returning from a loan spell with Linares.
Fortunately for Barca, Lopez opted to stay and went on to enjoy a fine breakthrough season in the 2023-24 campaign which saw him promoted to the first team.
Lopez explains what he was thinking before he was convinced to stay put.
“If I tell the truth, I returned from Linares and had many offers from the Second Division. I wanted to leave Barça,” he told Diario Sport.
“It was an opportunity, to take another step in my career, but the club convinced me by telling me that I would do a week of training with the first team.