Laporta 'asks' for a Super League and sticks out his chest for Barça's 'levers'

In the frame of a new ordinary assembly, the president of the FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, has pronounced in favour of the project of creation of a Superliga European, that explains also with the support of the Real Madrid CF and the Juventus FC. Likewise, it has remembered that thanks to the mechanisms of economic leverage the club has been able to face up to the crisis that has crossed in the last years.

The jerarca Barcelona has reiterated the need of a radical change in the current model of the football in front of the desinterés that would be generating in the last years, what would require like possible solution of a format with greater quantity of attractive parties, as it had indicated his homologous in the Madrid, Florentino Pérez: "The European football has a negative dynamics of assistance to the stadiums and of follow-up by television".

Laporta Loads against the clubs been

Likewise, it has warned of the damage that would be doing the clubs that constantly receive monetary injections without any type of control: "It Is necessary to add him the distortion of the clubs states, with boundless resources. Desestabilizan Of evident form. One of the errors of the previous board was precisely compete to financial level with the rhythm that marked these clubs, that do not have any supervision neither follow the 'fair play'".

This situation repercutiría especially to the moment to incorporate players: "This causes not being able to fichar stars or engage the economic future. And anybody puts him brake. The UEFA, the other way around, what does is to give them more can. It is by this that support to the Superliga. By a more equalised competition to compete each club with his resources and without the distortion of the clubs been".

Laporta Has reiterated that the meritocracia will be the base of the tournament, going out to the step of those who consider that teams like the Barça or the Madrid are economically stronger: "The clubs will govern our destination. It does me laugh when the clubs been say that the clubs of the Superliga are the rich. They do not have it doubts that it would be an open League, based in the meritocracia and respecting the state leagues".

In fact, it has affirmed that the project could set up again, after being descartado in his initial phase in 2021, depending of the European court's decision around the middle of December: "If the resolution of the European Union is favourable, will be able to work without pressures to propose a format of competition that was of the like of all the world".

In defence of the 'crowbars'

Regarding the sale of active and part of the heritage of the club to take out to float his economy, the president has indicated the favourable results of these actions: "we Could define the crowbars like operations to optimise our resources and can keep on being owners of the entity and have a big sportive project. Have a big capacity to attract capital and generate income and without losing our model of gobernanza and of property (...). We have recovered the pulse of the entity to take out to the club of the 'UCI'".

However, it has indicated that the Barça has to avoid depend on this type of mechanisms, to the that resorted given the circumstances. The purpose is to recover the profitability: "we can not work to base of crowbars. We can not throw of extraordinary resources always. We will be viable and will achieve it with a competitive team and with a good economic management".

'Dardo' to LaLiga

One of the 'crowbars' that greater fruits has surrendered has been the one who consisted in the sale of a 25 % of the television rights to Sixth Street. Also it explained the cause to activate a third round: "When they finish the 25 years will recover it. This crowbar has given us profits this year and has helped us to square the 'fair play'. LaLiga Carried us to activate the third crowbar since it did not consider it sufficient, and sold the 49 % of Barça Studios to Socios.com and Orpheus Half. We are especially satisfied of this".

Also it has remembered the difficulties to inscribe to ones of the players fichados in the summer owing to the differences in the accounts that handled the patronal and the actions that had to carry out: "LaLiga said that it neither was sufficient. It was missing to inscribe to Koundé and the board had to endorse 10 million euros personally. The board and also Mateu Alemany participated in the operation".