The president of Barça, Joan Laporta, wanted to clarify in his own way Els matins of TV3, the controversy about the departure of Messi. After the Argentine was very critical of Laporta in an interview in Sport (“Nobody asked me to play for free but at the same time it seems to me that the words that the president said are out of place. They hurt me because I think he has no need to say that, it is like getting the ball off of you and not assuming its consequences. This makes people think or generates a type of doubt that I think I do not deserve “), Laporta offered his version. And yes, he said that Messi was right and that he had never asked the Argentine to play for free, but he continued to leave that hint that, perhaps, the gesture could have come from the Argentine. “I want to clarify it. In a radio program they told me: If Messi had stayed free? Free … I don’t know if it could be possible, but I understand that it could. And for a moment I said, well it could have been. But I I never asked Messi to play for free and in that Messi is right because, apart from that, he is the best player in the world. We knew he had an important proposal and it was absurd.. If anything, it had to come out of him, not me. I never said it and a controversy has formed that is falsified in the origin “.
In the same program, Laporta confirmed the return of Ricard Pruna as head of Barcelona’s medical services (“we have not paid any clause for him”). He also confirmed that Ansu will be an almost certain loss in Munich. “He wants to play but the doctors have to decide that, not me. They have told me that it is difficult”) and also insisted that he is a supporter of the Superliga: “The project continues. UEFA does not want to stop organizing the Champions League. The clubs are in a situation that we want to govern the competition because we are the ones who have the obligation to pay with the players and with the management. And there is a lot of income that we could regulate without UEFA taking 25 percent. And, in addition, there is the right to free competition. And they cannot violate it from UEFA. The big clubs have that idea. The English left due to political pressure. When it all started, the English said they were waiting for Barça. The English want to return to the Super League, but they left due to political pressure. We have achieved that it is not a closed competition. And we do want to be part of the football family, of UEFA. But the clubs must be more relevant. And we are more than capable of organizing a competition that will be the most attractive in the world. “
Finally, Laporta confirmed that he has five offers for the title rights of the Camp Nou, which they want to enter “about 30 or 40 million for the season“For the same ones; and that he wants Dembélé to renew:” We want him to continue and he wants to stay. “
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