VALVERDE WAS FORBIDDEN FROM PLAYING ME!!! - FORMER BARCA FORWARD

New Sevilla signing Munir El Haddadi claims Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde was “forbidden” from playing him by the club’s hierarchy after the forward said he did not want to renew his contract.
An underwhelming loan spell with Valencia was followed by a more productive one at Deportivo Alaves last season, scoring 10 times in 33 LaLiga games, and he was rewarded with a spot back in Barca’s squad this term.

However, after making only one start in the first half of the campaign, Munir told the club at the start of January he intended to leave when his contract expired at the end of the campaign.

“When I returned from holiday [at the start of January] I told the club that I did not want to renew,” he told reporters on Monday at his Sevilla presentation.
“The coach [Valverde] told me that he was forbidden from counting on me by those above him. I kept working and I was lucky to come before [June] to Sevilla.”