Javier Mascherano has given an interview to TyC in Argentina and has spoken about his future. The Barcelona defender revealed the decisions he makes are not always related to football: “In a career like mine, you don’t only make decisions based on the sporting side of things.”
He was also asked about possibly signing for Juventus: “It’s a rumour, I am at Barcelona and I have always said I am really grateful to the club. What will happen in the future, I can’t say, but I don’t like to cling on to anything.”
The Argentine, though, suggested he is annoyed with Barça: “There are people in the club who know the opinion I have about what I have had to experience in the last year, there’s public knowledge of all the problems I have had on a personal level.”
He added: “The opinion I have on this matter is known by the board, the manager, the sporting director... everyone is clear and knows [what I think]. I can’t be denying rumours all the time, I would go mad.”
Asked if that meant he would leave the Catalan club, he nuanced: “I am not talking about a departure, either. I am grateful to the clubs who have given me an opportunity. Barça have helped me be recognised on a worldwide level and I have won many titles.
“I don’t know when the end [at Barça] is. I always analyse situations. I think that to leave a club like Barça, you have to weigh up a lot of things. But the day will arrive when it ends, I don’t know if it will be now, in one year or three years.”
Mascherano also spoke about his arrival at Camp Nou: “When I decided to change clubs it was because there was the chance to go to the best club that there was in Europe, with a manager that everyone spoke about in glowing terms.”
And he also revealed the worst thing about playing for Barça: “There is dark side, the best years of my career have not been spent in the position I wanted to play, those that know me know, to achieve things, you have to leave other things to one side.”