The president of Futbol Club Barcelona, Joan Laporta, reviews the club’s current sporting events in an extensive interview with SPORT, from the same editorial group as Diari de Girona.
Laporta recognizes them market difficulties due to the salary cap, but it makes it clear that the Barcelona team is favorite to win the league and that it is better than that of the eternal rival. “We have a better team than Madrid and, individually, we are too better by some margin with our rivals. As a partner and fan I am very pleased with the team we are building.”
Laporta assured that he does not focus on what other teams spend and only focuses on improving at Barça. “We already have one very competitive team. We won the Spanish League and we can continue exercising hegemony in this competition. I focus on making a good team over signing individuals. We have signed a Gundogan i inigo martinez and they will give us a great performance like the others to come.”
The Barcelona president commented that “we are clear about the coach’s requests. Maybe one is missing lateral and someone at center of the camp and we will try to satisfy you. The team has won major titles again and we ambitious for the future. He is working well and the coach is doing well too. We all want to experience many more joys in the coming years.”
According to Laporta, Arda Güler was close to Barça. In fact, Deco he reached an agreement with Fenerbahçe with which he secured the transfer of the footballer. Laporta, in the interview, confirmed that the agreed figure was “17.5 million euros” and, in addition, assured that “we were in agreement with the player”. But everything went wrong when he came into play Real Madrida fact that the footballer himself said in his presentation with the white team.
The president of Barça is clear that “we could have come to compete”, but also that nor did they raise it: “Neither with Arda nor with other players who want to come to Barça”. The reason is that “we impose certain criteria on ourselves that we will not transgress” with the aim of “not going back”.
And it is that Joan Laporta was not ready to enter one auction by a footballer who still has a lot to prove in football at the highest level: “We have to apply the common sense and we think that from this operation, due to the magnitudes that were occurring, we had to move away”.
This was when, as the director comments, “other clubs entered”, explicitly naming the club chaired by Florentino Pérez: “Madrid entered and considered that it had to pay the amounts they have paid”. On the other hand, “we here thought we shouldn’t enter” because “there are more players that I think we can get them without going into this battle.” “We think it would be a mistake on our part,” he finished.
Vitor Roque he has already signed his new contract with Barça and arrives from Athletico Paranaense. The club the will become official in the next few hours, but his signing is one hundred percent closed. So much so that we just need to know when he can join Xavi’s project and wear the Blaugrana. Questioned about this, Laporta understands that it will depend on how the Net Game evolves at the salary level of the first team.
In fact, Laporta commented during the interview granted to SPORT that his landing in the Sports City is also subject to the “feasibility plan”, although it opens the door to generate “some income that gives us fair play”. In this case, they will have to make a decision when choosing to incorporate “one player or another”.
And the initial idea of the organization is for Vitor Roque to join the group in January 2024, coinciding with the opening of the winter transfer market. Although no one in the club rules out the possibility that, finally, the Brazilian will continue throughout the season at Athletic Paranaense, waiting to be able to join Xavi Hernández’s group. All options are open because the footballer wants to play for Barça and Barça also wants it to be that way.
Despite this, depending on how the management of the market goes and how they square up Blaugrana finances its incorporation will take place at one point or another. If nothing changes, everything is currently scheduled for January 2024.
2023-07-11 19:25:48
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