A former Madrid player charges against Deco to defend Mateu Alemany

The name of Mateu Alemany, without any doubt, is synonymous of an excellent management regarding the sportive direction. The Majorcan, stood out between other things by his paper like president of the RCD Mallorca (2003-2009) and general manager of Valencia CF (2017-2019), assumed the challenge to turn into the director of football in the FC Barcelona (2021-2023) in a moment extremely convulso for the club in economic terms. Nevertheless, this was not an obstacle so that the Barcelona cast reinforced season after season with interesting footballers to costs irrisorios, since the incorporations based to a large extent in players that arrived in condition of free agents.

This is not simply an empty affirmation, since during his period like attendant to manage the additions of the Barcelonan square, from the summer of 2021 until the winter of 2023, Mateu Alemany was behind a total of 19 signings, of which nine were acquisitions to cost zero, between them Andreas Christensen, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Memphis Depay. Equally, some arrived in quality of loan (3) and others by means of traspasos (7), between which find names 'top' as Robert Lewandowski, Jules Koundé and Raphinha, for mentioning only some.

The important work of the Majorcan no only reached to be recognised inside the FC Barcelona, entity that suffered a hard loss after his game, but also by several external actors in the field of the international football. One of them, recently revealed, went Santi Cañizares, exguardameta of Valencia CF and the Real Madrid, the one who had the opportunity of elogiar the work of Mateu Alemany in the Barcelona cast during an interview in 'Irradiate Mark', taking advantage of also to criticise to Deco. "I desconfío of the project that can do Deco. For me the Messi of the dispatches for the Barça was Mateu", limited.

Cañizares Also commented the importance of the role of Xavi for the FC Barcelona

Besides, the opinion of the exfutbolista did not detain there, since during this conversation also stood out the fundamental reason whereby the Catalan picture would have to try keep to Xavi Hernández like trainer for the next season. "Laporta Has in Xavi something fantastic, that is a shield in front of the failure because it is a legend of the Barcelona, respect him although it do not like you. The directive feels protected having to Xavi", concluded Cañizares.