FC Barcelona transfer talk hurt my form - Liverpool FC's Javier Mascherano
May 17 2010 Liverpool Echo
JAVIER MASCHERANO has admitted last year’s on-off move to Barcelona affected his form for Liverpool.
The Argentina captain has also aroused speculation surrounding his Anfield future by labelling the collapse of a move to the Nou Camp as ‘a shame’.
Mascherano was the centre of transfer talk 12 months ago with the Catalan giants favourites to prise him away from Merseyside.
It was said his young family had struggled to settle in Liverpool since his February 2007 loan move from West Ham; a switch that became permanent a year later in an £18million four-year deal.
With ongoing contract talks with the Reds now on hold until after the World Cup Barcelona are likely to be alerted once again by Mascherano’s latest comments.
“The situation with Barcelona really affected me,” said Mascherano, who ended last season strongly after a slow start.
“It was a shame it didn’t happen as it was the city where I wanted to live.
“There were many discussions and problems during that month and a half. They were difficult times for me. One day I was of to Barcelona, the next I wasn’t.
"And Liverpool said I was non-transferable. Psychologically, it affected me as I couldn’t think in Liverpool and I was focused on other stuff and not on my work, my training and playing.
“Also we were having problems with Argentina as our qualification to the World Cup was in danger.
“There was a lot of complicated stuff at that time.”
While Mascherano turned his poor form around in the second half of the season, he admits all is not well off the pitch.
After giving birth to their second child last year, Mascherano’s wife is still finding it hard to come to terms with life in England.
“I have no problem living in Liverpool,” he said. “But my wife and daughters deserve to enjoy every day to the full and live their lives. But they have to be home all day.
“My wife doesn’t speak a word of English, so she depends 100 per cent on me. I live here with them. That’s my world, that’s my life.”
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