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Xavi Hernández and Joan Laporta visiting the Camp Nou

FOR LAPORTA, BARÇA HAS THE BEST TEAM

The Barça board trusts the supremacy of the culé squad in LaLiga

Published:11/07/2023 - 22:48h

Updated:12/07/2023 - 01:57h

Joan Laporta expressed his confidence in the quality and depth of the FC Barcelona squad for 2023/24. In an interview with 'SPORT', the president made it clear that Barça "has a better team than Madrid", but a couple of reinforcements are still missing

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Although the market veraniego of the FC Barcelona has not been so intense like the one of 2022, Joan Laporta trusts the potential of the staff to follow dominating in LaLiga and go back to be leading in Europe in the 2023/24. In his last interview with the newspaper 'SPORT', the mandator took out breast by the enclosed operations until the moment and did not doubt in 'wet' on the individual and collective quality of the ones of Xavi Hernández regarding his rivals in Spain.

"Have better team that the Madrid and, individually, also are better with some difference with our rivals. Like partner and fan am very satisfied with the team that are building", ensured Laporta. The Barça has added, for the moment, two reinforcements (Iñigo Martínez, Ílkay Gundogan), waiting for what suceda with Vitor Roque and the date of his arrival to Catalonia.

Laporta Cleared the aims of the Barça for what subtracts of market

In this sense, the Barcelona president ensured that, for the next weeks, the priority will be to add one or two players more, according to the leaf of route established by the sportive direction and the technical body. "Have clear the requests of the trainer. Fault perhaps a side and something in the centre of the field (a pivote) and will try to satisfy him", explained.

Besides, Laporta valued the made by the ones of Xavi the past season. "We already have a very competitive team. We have won the Spanish League and can follow exerting hegemony in this competition. The team has gone back to win important titles and are ambitious of face to the future. it is working Well and the trainer also is it doing well. All want to live a lot of more joys in the next years", ensured the mandator.

The why of the failure of the 'operation Güler'

On the other hand, Joan Laporta explained it sucedido in the negotiation by Burn Güler. The directive formulated an offer by the value of ´the clause of rescission of the mediocentro (17.5 million euros), but although there was an agreement with the player, the club descartó go in in a bidding with the Madrid. "We had to apply the common sense and think that, of this operation, by the magnitudes that were giving , had to separate". It was as well as the 'White House' finish fichando to the Turkish by 20 'kilos' more 10M in variables, a figure that the Barça was not had to equalise.