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| Iker Cassilas |
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has admitted that Iker Casillas was frustrated out of the club.
Cassilas, a
legendary and multi award winning goalkeeper ended a 25-year stay at the Santiago Bernabeu last week when he
confirmed a move to Porto.
A five-time Liga
winner who helped Madrid to three Champions League crowns, Casillas had faced
heavy criticism since he was dropped by then-Madrid coach Jose Mourinho in
2012.
“He wanted to
leave because he'd had a gut full,” Perez was overheard saying at Casillas’ hastily organised farewell event on Monday.
The ceremony
arrived just 24 hours after the club faced criticism from sections of
supporters for initially leaving Casillas alone in the press room to read a brief statement
confirming his exit.
Perez and Madrid
have maintained that the decision to leave the club was Casillas’s alone, but
Santos Marquez, one of those at the heart of the deal that took the goalkeeper
to Portugal, insists that the World Cup winner was forced out of the club.
“Casillas never
decided to jump ship and leave Real. He was pushed,” Marquez told MARCA.
“Six years ago,
when the likes of Guti and Raul were there, he was already condemned. He is the
captain, he was condemned.
"In no moment
did I hear Rafa Benítez say, 'I want or I don't want Casillas.'"
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