Thibaut Courtois has opened up on his switch from Chelsea to Real Madrid last summer and the criticism he's received during his time in the Spanish capital.
Courtois told HLN's Stephan Keygnaert (h/t MailOnline's Tom Caldon) in an interview published on Saturday that he had made an agreement months in advance with Blues director Marina Granovskaia that he would be allowed to leave:
"That Marina is hard at negotiation is normal. The people in football who are talking about contracts, salaries, transfers, etc. that get players and dispose of them, they have the most difficult job.