Dani Alves says of São Paulo: “Bees don’t have time to teach the fly that honey is better than shit.”

Daniel Alves was controversial again when he talked about his time Sao Paulo. The player returned to Brazilian football in 2019 to play for his favorite team, but after a few months things did not go as expected, which prompted him to terminate his contract and become one of the biggest enemies of the tricolor crowd.

“I went through so many stages in Sao Paulo that I lost my credibility that it was worth being at the club. I made the decision to go to FIFA+, the new broadcasting platform for the top entity in world football,” said Daniel Alves in the documentary Danny Crazy Dream of FIFA+. São Paulo to make a dream come true and to think that we can build something together.

We planned it, but the strategy that convinced me to come started to fail. I’ve reached my limit, you know? That’s the sand, you’ve reached the limit,” continued the former Sao Paulo No. 10 jersey.

Unable to pay the agreed salary with the player, São Paulo began accumulating debts with Daniel Alves. One of the most tense moments in the relationship between the club and the athlete occurred during the Tokyo Olympics, when he was challenged in an interview with Tricolor right after his gold medal win when asked if he had given up on the team, which was playing at the time in the last 16 of the Copa Libertadores and Copa Libertadores finals. Brazil.

“People talk because they don’t know my dedication, achievement and respect for São Paulo, São Paulo often let me down, and I didn’t fail in São Paulo,” Daniel Alves said at the time.

And precisely during the Olympic Games, the right-back began to think about leaving São Paulo, because in addition to not receiving what was stipulated in the contract, he was receiving severe criticism from a large part of the public.

“I started thinking a lot about whether we were doing well, because when you start enjoying beautiful moments in different places, you start comparing something good and something bad. Then she says, ‘Man, the bee doesn’t have time to teach the fly that honey is better than shit,'” Daniel Alves added.

After returning from Tokyo, the right-back also participated in the quarter-finals of the Libertadores, against Palmeiras, in the match against Sport, in Brazil, and in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, against Fortaleza.

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