Nice midfielder Jean Michael Seri will have to settle for another season in Ligue 1 after being told he will not be allowed to join Barcelona this summer.
The Ivorian reportedly had a gentlemen’s agreement with Nice coach Lucien Favre that he could leave for €40 million. But when Barcelona allegedly bid this amount Nice insisted the verbal clause had expired by the end of July.
Seri has claimed that he was given assurances over his intentions to leave, telling Mundo Deportivo: “I’m not going to lie – I feel awful, I did not play for Nice this weekend because football should be about joy and I did not feel this.”
“My dream of joining Barcelona has been broken and this is terrible for me. From what I understand, the deal did not go through because of financial reasons and that makes me very sad.’
“I was stunned to hear negotiations had broken down after my talk with Barcelona officials the previous evening, I was shattered.”
“It was incomprehensible to me so the next day I went to the offices at Nice and I exploded with anger, honestly, the walls shattered!”
“The leaders of my club could not tell me anything, they could not even look me in the eye.”
“I played against Napoli out of loyalty to my teammates, this was not their fault but honestly I don’t know what will happen now.”
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