I understand what you feel mate, but anywhay... I remember he's role in "Dream Team" and that we can't forget. Besides.... his transfer was a completely different case face to face with the Figo affair...
You tell them, señor.
Only those ignorant of the events and circumstances leading to his transfer would mention him in the same breath as Figo. Madrid hate greater than Barca Love is the new mantra of the new breed of culés. As such, everything related is perceived negatively or completely dismissed without a rational thought.
From his Bulgarian teammate's own accounts, the dane had an emotional tie-up with the club and would 've stayed longer had it not been for his fall-out with his dutch coach at the time. We not only lost a significant piece of the Dream team, suffered humiliaton at the hands of Milan, our domestic winning streak came to an end. Its also interesting how he failed to win anything post-Laud. Sorry, but for all the dutch's Barca legacy this was a low point in his managerial career, a bad judgement on his part. You dont mistreat and alienate a player of dane's calibre and expect the football side of things to work in your favour. It was not a greed-driven switch or the desire to don the white but a point to prove to the one who rejected his services. Not saying joining our arch-rivals was the right thing to do but i can understand
why he did it. And Cruyff concedes it.
You can hate him all you want for his decison. But he's a significant part of our glorious past and been a model prof at all times. His contributions in the Blaugrana shirt commands and deserves more respect than what is shown.
Well, my memorie recals me only the 0-5 in 1974 and 2-6 in 2009 (both in Bernabeu...)...
You need to consider Gio's age you see..