Stoke City forward Bojan Krkic has hit out at Serie A giants Roma, who he feels ‘disrespected’ him during his one-year stay at the club.
Bojan joined the Giallarossi for a fee of €12million in 2011 after making over 100 appearances for his boyhood club Barcelona.
The 24-year-old netted seven times in 37 outings before being loaned out the following season to AC Milan where he found the back of the net on three occasions in 27 games.
Roma opted not to exercise their option of an additional €28million to sign the forward on a permanent basis and he subsequently returned to the Catalan capital.
However, he was immediately shipped out on loan to Ajax for a season before eventually settling at Stoke, who can be backed at 29.00 to win the Capital One Cup in the 2015/16 season, after signing a permanent deal last summer.
The former Spain Under-21 international admitted that he is now happy to be valued at the Britannia Stadium, despite missing the second half of the season through injury.
Bojan believes he was always destined to fail during his time in Rome as both Luis Enrique and Zdenek Zeman utilised him in unfamiliar positions.
He said: “I’m finally being played in my own role, unlike in Italy. I’m a striker. At the most I can play just behind the forwards, but not as a winger.
“Luis Enrique didn’t know me well enough, I spent a complicated year working with him. Later, I wasn’t part of the plans of the new coach [Zdenek Zeman].
“And I had some problems with [director Franco] Baldini. On one day he was telling me to stay, on another that I may be sold. He disrespected me, that’s all. But I’m grateful to Roma, they are the first club who opened their doors to me after Barcelona. It’s a shame that our paths should have parted the way they did.”
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