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ASSE supporters will never forget Josuha Guilavogui. A child of the Saint-Etienne club, the defensive midfielder left him in the summer of 2013 to sign for Atlético Madrid before returning there a year later on loan. The transfer leaves him unsatisfied as he has failed to seize his chance under Diego Simeone. There may be an explanation for this …

” I can’t say it all, but then I learned that football has a dark side, that it is a business above all else. I ended up not in a conspiracy but in something that I did not know, that I did not know before signing, he reminded the website Dessous de Verts. Back then it was the sporting director who wanted me, he and Diego Simeone played together. What happened between them and some of their relatives, I can’t tell. I didn’t know about it and understood why I wasn’t playing. Then there was also the fact that it was an investment fund that held 30 to 40% of my rights. I learned things, I left feathers. “

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“Everything went very quickly, too fast”

On the ASSE side, Guilavogui suggests that this transfer of around 12 million euros would have been very useful to flow back the funds of the club. ” We got knocked out in the Europa League play-off against Esbjerg. I had planned to stay at ASSE, we were at the end of the transfer window. The next day or two, my agents tell me that Atlético is on me. I didn’t really know this club, at the time I was taking English lessons because the Premier League appealed to me more, was more suited to my qualities. I talk to coach Galtier who tells me that the club have contacted Atlético, that he understands that the club needs the money. He didn’t push me but I felt anyway when Dominique Rocheteau spoke to me that it was helping the club a bit. I wasn’t too against it because it was a big club from Spain. It all happened very quickly, too fast. I must have jumped on a plane and signed up there. “