What until a few months ago was a relationship of friendship and fraternization, with the Super League project involved and with a common front against Tebas, is no longer so. Barça and Madrid have divorced. It was sensed, after … Florentino’s harsh criticism in the Assembly and at the Christmas cocktail party, describing the Negreira case as the biggest scandal in sport, and Joan Laporta confirmed it today in Jeddah: “Relations with Madrid are broken,” said the Barça president at the official dinner for the finalists.
Encounter who was not Florentinowhich landed this afternoon in Jeddah. Nothing that he didn’t already do last year, but not because of his distance from Barça. That has happened in recent months, once Barcelona has gotten off the Super League ship and Joan has approached Tebas to find common ground between LaLiga and Barça, something that the Barça club needs more than ever, having entrenched its financial fair play for several years.
«There are various issues that have distanced us. If we were already bitter rivals, now the situation is that relations are not good. Come on, they’re broken. But That does not mean that there is institutional respect and that we act in a civilized manner.» commented Laporta, open to improving this bad moment between both entities, but suggesting that he sees no predisposition on the part of Madrid.
«Everything is reconducible. In football and in life, but it depends on the will of the parties, and in this sense circumstances have occurred that have caused relations to be broken,” he stated.
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