Barcelona president: Keeping Lionel Messi was a ‘risky’ funding
Keeping Lionel Messi could be dangerous for Barcelona and never even the best participant on this planet was value jeopardizing the membership’s future, president Joan Laporta stated Friday.
Laporta blamed Barcelona’s earlier administration for the membership’s dire monetary scenario, which saved it from becoming Messi’s new contract throughout the Spanish league’s truthful play rules.
He stated he hoped the league would have been extra versatile with its guidelines however understood that it couldn’t make an exception even when that meant dropping Messi.
“There are objective reasons regarding the economical situation at the club and an investment of that volume with the contract of Messi was risky,” Laporta stated. “We wanted to assume those risks, but when we realized the real situation of the club after the audit, it meant that we would have put the club in great risk.”
He stated Messi and the membership did every little thing doable to make the contract work nevertheless it wasn’t doable with out hurting Barcelona’s funds.
“After all of this negotiation process, there comes a moment where you need to say ‘enough,’” Laporta stated. “You need to analyze rigorously with a cold head and look at the numbers. And in the Spanish league we have to abide by the rules. We think they could be more flexible, but that’s not an excuse, we knew the regulation. We couldn’t abide by it because of the inheritance we had.”
Barça president Laporta: “Leo Messi had other offers on the table but he wanted to STAY, also if our proposal was inferior on financial point of view. He was NOT creating any problem, trust me – he did many financial efforts to stay here, the contract was agreed”. 🔴🇦🇷 #Messi
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 6, 2021
Laporta stated new funding lately secured by the league would have helped however the membership was towards the deal as a result of it might have harm the workforce’s broadcasting rights revenues for the subsequent 50 years.
“We think Barcelona is above all,” Laporta stated. “The club is over 100 years old and is above everyone, even above the best player in the world. The club goes over players, coaches, presidents.”
The membership introduced on Thursday that Messi wouldn’t stay with the membership.
