Former Brentford midfielder Toumani Diagouraga has explained his decision to leave the Bees for Leeds United in 2016 - describing it as something he wishes he "wouldn't have done".
Having made 246 appearances for the west Londoners and played a part in the promotion from League One in 2013/14, Diagouraga reveals the reasons why he exited Griffin Park for Yorkshire.
“To cut a long story short, I was meant to sign a new deal in summer 2016, which I was happy to do,” Diagouraga recalled in the latest edition of On the Rise.
“After six months of the deal having not been signed, I wouldn’t say I got bad advice, but once the wheels were in motion about me leaving, it was hard for me to make a U-turn.
"I was in a position where I didn’t actually want to leave and go where I went, but how did I make a U-turn? I was between a rock and a hard place, put it that way.
“It was definitely hard to leave - and if I could turn the clock back, I probably wouldn’t have left.”
Having been at Brentford since 2010, Diagouraga experienced the highs and the lows of the next six years at the club.
And, despite featuring just 19 times during the promotion-winning campaign, he still looks back on that term - and his time with the Bees - extremely fondly.
“When I joined the club, we were just a League One team that was bottom half, top 10 maybe. To turn that into losing the play-offs and then getting promoted, we had turned ourselves into a top League One team. It was amazing,” he says.
“Had we gone up the year before, it might have been a year too early. Yeovil got promoted that year and look at where they are today, the same with Doncaster. I suppose we will never know, but I think it worked out the way it should have worked out.
“I know football is a game of opinions and sometimes you’re going to be in the good books, sometimes you’re not. It’s just about how you respond to it. Yes, I wish I’d played 46 games that year, but I could easily have not been part of it at all, so I’m just grateful I was.”
You can read the full interview in Saturday's match programme; available online, and in and around Gtech Community Stadium for £3.
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