“I can tell you one story: the reasons why I did not take Carrascal to Shakhtar were the same as the reasons why I took him to Flamengo. I was at Benfica when he went to Sevilla. Then, when I moved to Shakhtar, he ended up on loan at Karpaty.
“He played really well, a talented player, a street football player, but very intelligent, understood the game easily. He was a little careless, because he liked to decorate every game, and he also had an active life outside the football field, already in Ukraine, which was quite risky, wasn’t it?
“But there was a certain madness in him, thanks to which he did not care about the pressure on the field. Today he became more mature, but I knew that the pressure at Maracana would not affect him. If he were to sneeze at the pressure of the media, he probably wouldn’t even turn on the TV to see what was being said about him,” Botu said on the air of the No Princípio Era a Bola podcast.
From 2017 to 2019, the media wrote about Shakhtar’s interest in Karrascal. Bothu was the head of the selection department of the Donetsk club in 2018-2021.
Source: sport.ua