To be fair, Maradona wouldn't have survived here for too long. He had feuds with the coaches, the president, brawls with Bilbao and then there was his personal life too. They even had to change the training hours to accommodate his sleep schedule. He said that he started to use cocaine while in Barcelona. His numbers here were good but he was very problematic for the club.
I think selling Ronaldo was a bigger mistake, since he had one of the best individual seasons in football history and was only entering his prime being 19-20 years old.
"I was going to sign a contract renewal at the end of the season and I went to the Brazilian national team."
"Five days later, they (Barcelona) called me to tell me that the renewal cannot be done. It was never in my hands. I wanted to stay."
"If the club didn't value me the way I thought it should, then the decision was not in my hands. I would have liked to have stayed, but it didn't depend on me", says Ronaldo.
Some of his teammates were also surprised by his sale, guess something happened with the board.
