A Coruña, Apr 14 (EFE).- Deportivo striker Lucas Pérez explained that he did not go to Barcelona because of a difference of seven million between what Alavés was asking for and what the Barca team was putting up and revealed that he stopped receiving almost half million euros so that Cádiz would let him return home in the winter market to play two categories below the one he was in, in the First Federation.
Lucas spoke with ESPN about the signing that did not happen for Barcelona when he defended the Deportivo Alavés shirt.
“They said that I had to pay the termination clause, 15 million euros. He was 31 years old. If it had been 8 million, which was what Barcelona offered… but not 15 million,” said the Coruña.
Regarding his departure from Cádiz, he indicated that he put 493,000 euros out of his pocket to leave, although he qualified that he did not have to take that amount from the bank, but that it was money that the Andalusian team had to pay him and that he forgave in exchange for freedom to help Deportivo, the team from his city, to return to professional football, the goal for which he fights.