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Toni Freixa voting in the elections of the Barça

FREIXA, DISCONTENT WITH BARÇA

'Attack' by Toni Freixa: "Now we are paying for the dictatorship of the players"

Published:16/09/2021 - 10:04h

Updated:16/09/2021 - 10:04h

Toni Freixa, former manager of FC Barcelona and former candidate for the last Barça team elections, spoke about the current situation in Barcelona and made clear why the Catalans are adrift

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Toni Freixa, ex director and ex candidate to the last elections of the Bará, spoke in 'The Porteria', of 'Betevé', on the actuality of the FC Barcelona. The Catalan left clear his dissatisfaction after the defeat of the culés against the Bayern of Munich and looked for to the culprits to having arrived to a sportive situation so dramatic. Under his point of view, everything is due to to have him consented too much to the footballers.

"Fruit to have to the best player of the history, Leo Messi, and to a feeble directive, in the FC Barcelona have suffered the dictatorship of the players that now are paying", affirmed the ex director. Statements very hard that leaves in evidence to the changing room culé. In this sense, admitted that now only asks them to all that leave the skin each day. "Only I ask that the team work professionally in the trainings", indicated.

On the other hand, after mentioning to Messi referred in concrete to his exit of the Barça this summer. The ex candidate recognised that the club could not allow pay him to Leo what asked and also criticised the renewals that did him Josep Maria Bartomeu in the past. Freixa Ensured that the rosarino alone generated a fourth part of the money that cost him to the entity keep him.

"The club wanted to do Leo Messi that it renewed with some conditions very above which the club could allow … when I arrived to the Barça in the year 2010, Leo Messi had an agreement between fixed and variables of 15 million euros. Eleven years afterwards earned Messi earned 138 million euros. It generated it? It look, in this time the income of the FC Barcelona have multiplied by 2.5 and the wage of Messi almost by ten", aimed.

'Dardo' of Freixa to Jaume Roures

Besides, it did reference to the words of Jaume Roures on his rejection to endorse him in case to having won the elections. "Jaume Roures would not have endorsed me because it knows that it would not have taken out any performance", declared. A direct attack to the partner founder of Mediapro, that does a pair of days spoke of the reason by which endorsed to Joan Laporta, giving him in passing a 'stick' to Freixa.

It is necessary to remember which were the words of Roures on the decision that took when endorsing to the current president of the Barcelona "Endorsed because in this moment the situation of crisis of the club was so strong that only had been missing that this candidature had not been able to access to have a managerial board to be able to do a positive thing. It would have done the same with Víctor Font, but no with Toni Freixa", signalled.