2025 started with an signing attempt that practically becomes the 'bombing' of the year. The technical secretariat of Barça opted for the return of Thomas Heurtel to the Barca team, after its departure in 2021 in that episode of sad memory starring in Istanbul, in which Sarun Jasikevicius And their staff did not authorize Gaul, in the middle of the pandemic, return along with the rest of the expedition to the Catalan capital.
The reason? The attempt to deceive Barça, both by the player and his surroundings, in making them believe that he was going to accept an offer of Fenerbahce, When they were really negotiating with him Real Madridas the base admitted some time later in an interview. A flirting, with the white club, which would end up confirming months later.
Heurtel did not go well from Real Madrid either / EFE
The 'night's juerga' in Athens, lies with France …
That first episode was accompanied, months later, of the Night output Starring next to Trey Thompkins y Guerschon Yabusele In Athens, the night before Real Madrid faced Panathinaikos, or the concealment to the French Basketball Federation of its signing for the Zenit, Something that allowed him to dispute the Eurobasket of 2022, since the French agency did not allow his athletes to have any contractual relationship with any Russian team for the Ukraine War.
After paying at a good level in St. Petersburg, Heurtel did not reach any interesting European proposal and decided to start this season in the Shenzhen Leopards chino, where he also signed good numbers. And after that, the call of a desperate Barça and deranged for injuries, seeing how the incorporation of Raul Neto a fiasco had resulted, and that had also discarded names such as Marcelinho Huertas and don 'Fatts' Russell. After knowing the interest of the Barca club in Heurtel, and with the Gallic already flying to Barcelona, Barça threw back, again with an airport as stage. The media noise and the disagreement of the vast majority of the social mass of the team stopped the operation, and Heurtel was thrown again.
Thomas Heurtel, upon his arrival at Aerport Barcelona-El Prat / @daniaguila12
Heurtel's words after his frustrated return to Barça
“It has been a very sad day for me and my family. What happened to me today is much worse than Istanbul. These things always disappoint you and you want to play “, He admitted in an appearance before the media, accompanied by his agent, a David Carr who, despite having Tomas Satoransky and Justin Anderson, did not hesitate to attack the Barca club: “Josep Cubells does not put me on the phone, I had never seen someone miss their word in this way, there is a total values problem.”
After what happened, and after a few days of calm and assimilating the blow, Heurtel decided to sign with Leyma Coruña, who struggled to save the category in its first year in Endesa League. Finally, it could not be like that, and the Coruña team has already been descended to First Feb, the former Leb Gold. As a player of Leyma, Heurtel played a total of eight games, in which Diego Epifanio's team only achieved a victory, and in which the French averaged 12.9 points, nine assists and 3.4 rebounds for 17.9 assessment credits. Good individual numbers that were truncated by a knee injury that forced him to go through the operating room at the end of April.
Heurtel has signed 12.9 points and nine assists per game in his stage in Coruña / ACB Photo – Mónica Arcay
The words of the president of Coruña
The records achieved by Heurtel at the individual level speak well of him, but the president of the Coruña club, Pablo de Amallo, He has revealed that everything that shines is not gold. In an interview with Radio Coruña, the top president of the Galician entity said that the day to day with Heurtel had not been precisely simple. “Heurtel is a complicated player, with great talent, but his management is complicated. It has given us very good minutes, But there is also the team management part and I know there was some complication. We were complicated to manage the costumes “, He commented on Amallo who justified those difficulties lived in the group: “It was a costume difficult to manage for many reasons. By number of players, for the like some of them … But we do not open disciplinary files. There were cases but not only with Heurtel. It was a complicated season. “
At 36, it will be to see what is the next step in Heurtel's career. His future is an unknown, but what is true is that In Coruña, as is happening in his last years of career, They will not keep a especially beautiful memory of their stay.
