Mateu Alemany will continue at Barça

BarcelonaAccording to the newspaper Sport and ARA can confirm, Barça’s still director of football, Mateu Alemany, has reconsidered his decision to leave the club this June 30. Two weeks after the organization officially announced his departure for professional reasons, the Balearic executive has offered to continue in the Blaugrana offices and will park his adventure in the Premier League. “Mateu has shown his willingness to continue at Barça under the same conditions as the current ones and the president has given the go-ahead”, official sources explain to this newspaper.

The news represents a radical turn in the events of the last few days in the offices of the sports area of ​​Barça. Alemany had an offer that provided him with more money and full powers at Aston Villa, who had been tempting him for months with an ambitious project and with old acquaintances such as Unai Emery or Damià Vidagany, with whom he has a very good personal relationship . Finally, however, it has been more loved to backtrack. Once he has repaired the bridges with Laporta, he will keep the salary he had before announcing his departure. In other words, a sports contract until 2024 that makes him the professional figure with the best conditions of the entity. Remember that your salary counts in the calculation of the fair play finance.

Nothing to do with Jordi or Deco

That Alemany continues at Barça has nothing to do with the departure of Jordi Cruyff or the possible arrival of Anderson Deco in the offices. The figure of the Mallorcan executive is not technical, but rather economic. He is the one who knows the rules of the salary margin, who acts as a bridge with the League and who negotiates the contracts with the players. The detection of talent and the suggestion of new signings falls more on Xavi Hernández, as well as Ramon Planes in the past, Cruyff during the last year and a half, and Deco, if he ends up arriving, in the near future. With this extended stay, Laporta and Barça maintain a top-level profile in a summer that will be key to continuing to improve the League champion squad.