Bartomeu: "Accusing Messi of the economic crisis is perverse and malicious"

"I listen to some means insinuate that somebody of the salient board or I have filtered this agreement. And this is totally false". Of this way began his communiqué on the case Leo Messi​ the ex president of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu. The Catalan was very conclusive in his argumentation and left clear that the Argentinian and the club would have to undertake legal actions what before.

"This is a very serious subject, is totally illegal to filter professional agreements and this will finish in courts because neither Barça, neither Messi can accept that this crime remain in at all", said in the writing that read in 'Irradiate Kanal Barcelona', Marçal Llorente, journalist of the program 'Without Grantings'. In the text that facilitated him the ex maximum mandator barcelonista, also there was a voracious criticism to which signal to Messi like the culprit of the economic crisis of the Barça.

"Accuse to Leo of the economic problems is perverse and malintencionado", declared. 'Barto' Cleared that the '10' deserves until the last euro that has won and aimed to the pandemia like the culprit of everything. "The player deserves the quantities that earns because it generates it with grow, so much by his sportive contribution as by his commercial contribution and without the crisis by the pandemia the Barça can pay perfectly these figures and the one of all the other players", stood out.

Bartomeu recognised that the virus is doing a lot of damage, but showed optimist of face to the future. "When it signed this renewal in November of 2017 anybody could imagine the pandemia of 2020. Certainly the pandemia this causing crisis in a lot of entities, organisations and companies of all the world. The professional football and especially the big European teams have been the big prejudiced. But the Barça will go out well because there is active sufficient and good decisions to resolve the situation", indicated.

Besides, it did not want to accuse to anybody to having filtered the agreement of Messi, although it mentioned to the people that had manually the document. "I do not know who has been, in fact in the club only 4 or 5 people have access to the agreements, also have it the lawyers of Cuatracases that participated in the negotiation and also the LFP has copy of all the players", reflexionó, without giving names.

Happy with Koeman and optimistic of face to the future

Finally, it commanded a message of optimism of face to what is for arriving and took out breast by the work that is doing in the Barcelona Ronald Koeman. "The best of these last months is to check that Koeman is doing a very good work, carrying out all what agreed in his signing. Have a team with youngsters of a lot of talent, with players very experienced that have had big successes and with the best player of the world. Have a good present sportive and better future", concluded.