Barça could sign the sports director of Betis in the summer

The triumvirate qeu conform Jordi Cruyff (sportive director), Mateu Alemany (director of football) and José Mari Bakero (director of scouting) could add to a new integral in summer. As it filtered the journalist Pedro Riesco in the program 'The Golazo of Goal', Joan Laporta would have contacted to Antonio Cord, current sportive director of the Betis to exert this same charge in the Barça, this after the confirmation of the executive extremeño of his exit of the group 'verdiblanco' in June.

In accordance with Riesco, the intention of the mandator culé is not to do without Alemany or Cruyff, but reinforce the management culé with a character of wide experience that already worked with Jordi in the ecuadorian selection of football, where Cord also occupied the previous sportive direction to his arrival to Seville. In fact, the executive was the manager of the contracting of Jordi like trainer of the combined sudamericano, charge that abandoned in front of the arrival of the pandemia of the COVID-19.

This Tuesday, Antonio confirmed his exit of the Betis when finalising the 2022/23, after three seasons in which the 'verdiblancos' won a Glass of the King the past year. "It is a decision meditada, consensuada with the family. It is a restlessness that I had and moved it to him to the club in his moment. That anybody look for carried of any type because the decision does not be due to any encontronazo, neither to any confrontation of the managerial board, neither with the trainer, neither with the players", explained the director.

To Cord subtracted him a year of agreement, but considers that this is the ideal moment to leave . "The Betis is above all the people. Antonio Cord in the Betis has not been anybody for what is the greatness of this club. I came to contribute my granite of sand. I am very happy with my work. Between all have woken up to an asleep giant. It is an aim fulfilled very beautiful", sentenced the extremeño.

Cord answers to the possible interest of the Barça

Once confirmed his goodbye to the Betis and the presumptive interest of the Barça, Antonio left clear that, for now, does not have at all agreed with the group culé. "I am laughing Me... I do not have at all with any club. My exit is not because it go me to a club... For the moment. So at all. They do not go by here the shots of my exit; yes it is true that, undoubtedly, now go me to link to a lot of teams, so much in Europe as in Spain, but is what there is. It is something that have to assume", said in an interview with 'Besoccer'.

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It will be necessary to expect to the summer to see if, finally, Laporta decides to reinforce the sportive direction or conserve intact the management that has commissioned to arm the current staff. Everything will depend, to a large extent, of the results that obtain the ones of Xavi Hernández of here at the end of season. LaLiga Is very directed. They subtract the Glass of Rey (semis) and the Europe League, where the way recently begins the Thursday.