BARCELONA – Emili Rousaud presented this Thursday in his program and electoral headquarters in Barcelona, in a small place near the Camp Nou in which he repeated his conviction regarding the return of Neymar to Barcelona, announced to be working on the signing of ‘another footballer’ franchise ‘and warned that in the current situation of the club “Messi’s salary is unbearable”.
The former vice-president in the Bartomeu live until his resignation in April following the outbreak of the Barçagate scandal proclaimed that he did not want to “apply the small ones because you have to think big” and warned that, against what if you want to think, the elections “will not be a matter of two” in reference to the role of favorites with which Joan Laporta and Víctor Font leave.
“Neymar is interested in returning to Barcelona,” said Rousaud, specifying that this return “must be for a no-transfer transaction, so it will be sold in 2022, when his contract expires, and he has withdrawn all the demands that keeping with the club “. Avoiding giving the number of the second star signing in which he works, I do not deny that it could be Kylian Mbappe, given the current difficulty of Barça in entering the token market and establishing that the Frenchman could also land at the Camp Nou at the end of his contract, when the next season ends.
“We have to think big to regenerate income leading to no investments that work,” said Rousaud, who maintained his intention to continue to have Lionel Messi in Barcelona, even though he warned that “his salary right now is not it is acceptable “.
In this sense, he revealed that the Argentine never wanted to leave the club due to an economic issue “because he is already the highest paid footballer in the world” and was “sure” of Leo’s considerations “they are not economic, but a project”.
He insisted on his desire to rename the Camp Nou, accompanying him with Messi’s name and a “powerful brand that, surely, would like to have his last name next to Leo’s” and took it for granted that Espai Barça, with the deep remodeling of the Camp Nou as the main and most urgent axis, will have to count on an increase of the budget “that will have to approve the partners”.
“It’s not easy to manage from austerity. In times of prosperity everything is easier, but I know what is built from scratch,” proclaimed Rousaud, who recorded that at the time formed a unitary candidacy to “face this difficult time.” His intention was not successful “because of an ego problem. Some people said that ‘the project is me’ and everyone’s path was shown … I tried, because I think it was the best way to deal with the huge economic problem. “Now there are candidates who talk about union but did not want to get into this cross-cutting idea. I don’t understand, I was willing not to be the first,” he said.