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Jordi Mestre, posing in the Camp Nou in an image of archive

DISCREPANCIES WITH A SECTOR OF THE BOARD

It resigns Jordi Mestre, up to now the sportive vice-president of the FC Barcelona

Published:3/07/2019 - 21:12h

Updated:3/07/2019 - 23:13h

The up to now sportive vice-president of the FC Barcelona, Jordi Mestre, has communicated this Wednesday in the afternoon his resignation by some discrepancies with the sportive area of the managerial board, as it has trascended in the last hours

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Jordi Mestre will not keep on being the sportive vice-president of the FC Barcelona. Like this it has trascended to the media said information this Wednesday, as it has communicated the Barça, after the already ex director culé have communicated his decision to those who up to now were his mates. The reasons of the resignation of Mestre would be related with supposed discrepancies with the sportive area of the managerial board.

It would not have problem any with the sportive direction formed by Pep Safe, Éric Abidal and Ramon Plans, and neither with the president of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, to the one who has accompanied from 2014 like one of the most important charges in the club.

Jordi Mestre occupied the place of sportive vice-president from January of 2014, when it relieved precisely to Josep Maria Bartomeu when this sucedió to Sandro Rosell in the presidency of the Barcelona club. It formed part of the board of the FC Barcelona from 2010, when it went in like member of the candidature that won in the elections of the club under the control of Rosell.

At the beginning it was the manager of the management of the Barça B and of the feminine team of football, contributing to improve it and afterwards to award him the professional character from 2015. The already ex Barcelona director finish to be appointed president of the Guild of Hoteleros of Barcelona, and from now will centre in his labour speciality.

Bartomeu loses to one of his strong men

Therefore, no longer it expects that it was in the official presentation of Frenkie of Jong like new player of the FC Barcelona, this Friday from the 19 hours. His presence in the press conference beside Éric Abidal had announced this Tuesday by part of the Barcelona club, but the resignation of Jordi Mestre has finish varying the plans.

Josep Maria Bartomeu loses to one of his strong men in the managerial board, and with the step of the safe time that will know more details on which have been the real reasons of the course of Jordi Mestre. Will have something that see with the possibility that the FC Barcelona fiche to Antoine Griezmann and repesque to Neymar Jr?