The former president of the Barcelona and aspiring back to the Barça presidency, Joan Laporta, Considers that there is time to “make a convincing proposal” to Leo messi and to avoid an eventual exit of the Argentine star.
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“He said he will wait until the end of the season and this gives us time to come up with a convincing proposal,” Laporta said in an interview published this Saturday by the newspaper Mark.
Laporta referred in this way to Messi’s statements in an interview with star communicator Jordi Évole on the Spanish channel sixth last December 27th.
The former Barça president has considered it “positive” that Messi, who ends his contract in June and has been free to negotiate with other clubs since Friday, has not yet decided anything.
“I’m not clear at all. Today I’m focused on how the season ends, I’ll decide then. The important thing is to try to get titles,” said the Barça captain in this interview.
“And I have an advantage, with Leo I have credibility. He always tells me that everything I promised him was fulfilled. He knows that if I give my word, I fulfill,” he assured Marca Laporta, who chaired the club between 2003 and in 2010 and under his tenure, Messi made his debut and began to grow at Barça.
– Future plans –
When some of his opponents in the January 24 election allude to names like Xavi Hernandez O Erling Haaland, Laporta is more enigmatic.
“I have my own sports project. I’m shuffling three names for the technical secretariat. I won’t fall into the trap of giving names, it’s not that I want to run away it’s that the price of the player goes up and that of ours that plays in this position, ”he explained.
“All the agents are calling me. I know them all and they want me to be president again, but I tell them that now I’m not talking about players or coaches,” Laporta added.
True to his provocative style, the man hung a huge banner with his effigy next to the stadium Santiago Bernabéu from’ Real Madrid with the motto “desire to see you again”, he considers that video refereeing favors the eternal rival meringue.
“If a Martian goes down to earth and sees the ON“I would say quickly that he is from Madrid,” said Laporta, who believes that Boat has lost influence.
“He has lost a lot of specific weight in the Federation, League, UEFA, FIFA and in all the bodies that govern football, ”he added.
“Barça must regain its credibility. It must have a presence to intervene in decision-making that affects football in general,” concluded Laporta.