Dugarry admits tricking Van Gaal with bogus sob story

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Crocodile tears

Christophe Dugarry admitted pulling the wool over Louis van Gaal¡¯s eyes by putting on a fake tears routine so that the coach would let him leave Barcelona during the pair¡¯s time together at the club in 1998. Dugarry, who made just seven first team appearances with Bar?a in his one season at Camp Nou, has another ex-Blaugrana, Emmanuel Petit in tears when he regaled how he fobbed the coach off with a bogus sob story: ¡°The worse things was that [Aim¨¦] Jacquet told all of the national team players that we needed to be first choice at our clubs. I pretended to cry, telling Van Gaal: ¡®I just can¡¯t take any more. I want to leave!¡¯. Van Gaal looked at me as always and said: ¡®No, don¡¯t go. I believe in you¡¯.

I thought: ¡®You believe in me? Really? Then why are you playing me as a No.6? Those six months were horrible. It was a nightmare¡±.