New Fenerbah\u00e7e signing Shane Larkin has spoken about his decision to leave Anadolu Efes and join the Turkish champions, revealing the factors that influenced his choice. In a preview of the upcoming Off the Recourt episode, the experienced guard emphasized that his move was not motivated by financial reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was never about chasing money. If I wanted to, I could have gone somewhere else and made $10, $12, even $15 million. I could have bought my Ferrari and driven it to practice every day. I want to be remembered as one of the greatest ever\u2014actually, I want to be the greatest to ever do it. There were still a few things missing for me to achieve that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The former Anadolu Efes star then looked back on his final period with the club, explaining that the situation changed unexpectedly and left him disappointed with how events developed.<\/p>\n \u201cI respect everyone. I\u2019m a soldier. Whoever you give me, I\u2019ll go to war with them. But I was told I was going to be the No. 1 player on this team, and then suddenly the rug was pulled out from under me. I ended up falling flat on my face.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Larkin also highlighted communication issues with the club\u2019s management, pointing to frustrations related to roster decisions and the departure of important players.<\/p>\n \u201cYou say, \u2018We can\u2019t lose this player,\u2019 and then you lose him. Then you say, \u2018We can\u2019t lose that player,\u2019 and you lose him too. Of course that\u2019s frustrating. You tell them \u2018A,\u2019 and they go and do \u2018B.\u2018\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The American guard also spoke about the impact of the criticism he received during the final stage of his Anadolu Efes career, particularly regarding speculation surrounding his injuries.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople started saying I was faking my injuries. That first reaction was really shocking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new Fenerbah\u00e7e guard explained the reasons behind his decision to leave Anadolu Efes, discussing his ambitions, frustrations and the final chapter of his time with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":276433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[315,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-506461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague"],"yoast_head":"\n