Matchplug<\/a>: ‘It all happened… I agreed to a contract they proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n‘Things went quiet for a few weeks. I was telling my agent, ‘Let’s do it’, then all of a sudden the contract was no longer there.
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So there was nothing to sign or agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘It was a difficult start for a few months with Unai [Emery]. As the season was going on, I was playing more and playing really well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Then January came and I had to make a decision whether I carried on and saw what happened or whether I agreed [to sign] somewhere [else].’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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