"I accepted it professionally, but I went to see the chairman, Jeremy Peace, with my mum, Berahino tells FourFourTwo when asked about his failed move to the north London side. He looked at her and said, Saido isn't going anywhere,' which made her cry. That destroyed me, so I posted the famous tweet saying I'd never play for him again. I regret that tweet."
"A lot went wrong, he admits. I was banned for eight weeks for taking MDMA [while still at West Brom], but my drink had been spiked, so that was hard to take. The dressing room at Stoke was divided between the foreign and English lads, to the point there were two separate WhatsApp groups. Because I speak French, I was in the middle. On the pitch we just couldn't win games. There was no togetherness nobody even socialised after training."
Saido Berahino burst onto the scene in 2013/14 with a memorable winner at Old Trafford and earned an England call-up. He scored 20 goals in 2014/15 for West Brom, attracting Tottenham Hotspur interest and triggering a protracted transfer saga that strained relations with manager Tony Pulis and chairman Jeremy Peace. A failed move led to a public tweet and regret. Berahino joined Stoke City in 2017 for £12 million but failed to score in the Premier League there. He was banned for eight weeks over an MDMA incident he says involved a spiked drink, and he described a divided, unjoined dressing room at Stoke.
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