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Joan Laporta, presidente del FC Barcelona

LAPORTA STRESSED HIS RESPECT FOR XAVI

Laporta confirms that Barça will sign normally in the summer and that they will not sack Xavi

Published:2/02/2024 - 13:40h

Updated:2/02/2024 - 13:40h

Barça continue to work to return to the green as in their best years of the previous two decades and their president wanted to leave a positive message regarding the near future of the club

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Joan Laporta spoke Friday in 'RAC1' of all the actuality of the FC Barcelona and from there did not doubt in reaffirming his will that Xavi Hernández "continue until final of season" and engaged to no destituirlo because "no deserves it to him", ensured. "I want that Xavi continue until final of season with this formula that have adopted. It is the best for this season. No destituiré to Xavi because no deserves it to him. It deserves that we trust he", ensured Laporta.

Likewise, the maximum mandator of the Catalan club declared that if another distinct technician to Xavi was in the current situation, there was it destituido and would not have adopted this formula, but thinks that in the current situation is the best for the Barça and "can work". And, in this sense, added that "Xavi is honest for, if it does not work, say us what want to say us", signalled.

The staff of the Barça will follow struggling by LaLiga and the Champions

The Catalan lawyer admitted equally that the Barcelona group will have to have "a point of luck" for reengancharse to LaLiga, in which it finds to ten points of the leader, the Real Madrid, and valued that it has a "staff to win to the Naples" in the eighth of final of the League of Champions in an eliminatory that it will be "very important". "The staff is to be better that where are. We have had injuries of key players for our system like Pedri, Ter Stegen, Of Jong or Gavi", explained.

"The team, that won the League with some authority and was called to not being to these heights to ten points of the first, has resentful. It was not the planned and are working in enderezar the situation", analysed. Already on the query by the future trainer of the Barcelona, Laporta answered that it delegates this question in the sportive director, Deco, but yes concretise that "the possibilities are quite limited" to "a trainer with some path", unless the club take "a more imaginative decision", highlighted.

The economy culé is still in constant mejoría

Already when being asked in the interview on the ambition of the club to the hour to go out to the market, Laporta has ensured that, if his managerial board fulfils with the planned budget and, therefore, with the 'fair play' financial established by LaLiga, "will culminate the darkest stage of the history of the club". "If the year happened already gave profits and answered own bottoms with an important quantity, and restructure the debt, now go by very good way", explained the Catalan lawyer.

"When we arrive, had 500 million losses and 1.500 of debt. We have reduced debt with the League to 652 millions and the mass salarial sportive in 172 millions. To have 'fair play' have to have positive results and now will have recessed the mass salarial to the levels that allows us LaLiga", revealed. On the other hand, the president of the Barça recognised that Deco is working so that Joao Cancel and Joao Félix, yielded in the Catalan club until final of course, continue in the team.

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