Laporta On his relation with Messi: "At the end it has gone deteriorating"

This Sunday 15 August to the 20:00 hours the FC Barcelona premièred in front of the Real Sociedad (4-2) in the frame of the Day 1 of LaLiga Santander 2021/22 and without his main star in the last two decades: the Argentinian Leo Messi, the one who already is the new player of the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). This meeting marked the first of the era without the Argentinian and as it was to expect was one of the subjects that jumped to the film this Monday during the press conference offered by the president of the Catalan entity, Joan Laporta, the one who confirmed that the relation club - footballer went "deteriorating".

The impossibility to carry advance the operation by the renewal of the historical player, as it has explained it Laporta previously, recae on the Fair Play Financial adopted by LaLiga in time of crisis, the financial management of Josep Maria Bartomeu and the been bulky mass salarial that follow without being able to recess in spite of the efforts. These points has reinforced them in this opportunity, adding, besides, that arrived the moment to make a fresh start and subtracting importance to the comments that allude to the cold greeting between both in the farewell of Messi in the Camp Nou.

"I have seen some statements of Messi very in accordance with what have explained. The communiqués of the two parts went on the same line. If we think that it could do it is because only we knew the numbers of the previous board. We present to LaLiga some losses of 89 millions that allowed us do an effort. When we see that LaLiga gave us expectations were optimistic, but when we see in return of what is when we darse that it can not be, although we had given us the hand with Messi. I read also it had his times, but saw that it could not be, although the footballer did a lot of efforts to fit his agreement in the limit salarial", reiterated again Laporta to the journalists.

"I think that it has been a successful relation that has lasted a lot of years and that at the end has gone deteriorating. We have advanced the post Messi two years. His presentation has been with contradictory feelings, as all the barcelonistas, had preferred to see it in the Barça although we have taken the correct decision because the Barça is above all. I wish him the best, likes me see it happy, deserves it to him and now perhaps will be rival and like rivals have to fit it", signalled the mandamás of the picture culé, the one who recalcó that the financial crisis made impossible the continuity of 'The Flea', since the debt rises the 1.350 million euros.

On how it finished the relation

"When we saw the magnitude of the tragedy saw that it could not be. The two parts had wanted another end, but it is necessary to accept that it has not been able to fulfil the idea that had in a principle. It has finish one of the most beautiful histories that have produced in the football, that usually do not last so much. I prefer to remember the good moments and no the bad. We are ilusionados with the team and to Leo sees him happy in Paris", sentenced.