İlkay Gündoğan: "With Xavi we didn't win anything but we scored 85 points"

İlkay Gündoğan spoke about what it meant to play with Xavi at FC Barcelona: "Maybe people look at last season and think we didn't win anything. It's true, but if you look at how we played, we had 85 points at the end of the season, only three less than the previous year, when they won the league," revealed the former Barça for Daily Mail.

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The German player had a somewhat chaotic season for FC Barcelona, ​​because many liked how he played and others did not. The problem is that many times success is measured by the number of titles a team wins and not by how it is played. With Xavi it ​​was thought that Barça had returned to its essence, however, they decided to remove him for reasons of results.

Another of the big problems that Xavi Hernández encountered along the way was an inspired Real Madrid with Carlo Ancelotti, the whites came with an emotional envoy and managed to be better than FC Barcelona. Added to this, at Barça their stars had not yet emerged, now we can talk about an inspired Lamine Yamal who resolves games.

Gündoğan also spoke about his return to Manchester City, where he had old acquaintances: "You know what it's like when you leave and come back. Don't be surprised if things are different, the dynamics are different. You have to readapt and maybe find your role. The "Things change, time has passed and you have to fit in again," the German player confessed to the Daily Mail.

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İlkay Gündoğan's value in the transfer market

The Manchester City player is valued at 15 million euros, a value reflected on the specialized site Transfermarkt. Its highest value was in the 2019 season when it cost 50 million euros. From then on his price fell due to the strong competitiveness he had at Manchester City, which is why he decided to leave for FC Barcelona.