Joan Laporta's position on Leo Messi's contract

This Saturday at night, the newspaper 'The World' made public the agreement that Leo Messi signed in 2017, in which it would have earned 555.237.619 million euros in hardly four seasons. A leak whose origin still desconoce and that has done a lot of damage to the Barcelona club, that already of in case it found in a moment complicated so much to institutional level like sportive and economic.

Joan Laporta, candidate to the elections to the presidency of the FC Barcelona -that will celebrate the next 7 March- considered favourite above Víctor Font and Toni Freixa, declined to do public allusions on the agreement of Leo Messi. This yes, according to the informations desveladas by the newspaper 'Sport' this Sunday, the ex president of the Barcelona entity has his very marked posture in this regard.

The previously quoted media ensures that Joan Laporta "does not want to speak in concrete of the leak" but considers that "above all else, Leo Messi is an active sportive of the club and that it is a generator of profits for the Barça of first magnitude". It is thus that the candidate thinks that "if Leo Messi carries these quantities is because it deserves it to him".

It is necessary to remember that the posture of Joan Laporta in this regard of the continuity of Leo Messi​ always has been the one to try convince to the footballer so that it renew his agreement, but adapting his economic conditions to the ones of the current stage of financial crisis by the pandemia. It is thus that it wants to present him an ambitious sportive project that do to reconsider to the Argentinian star his will to change of airs.

The posture of Leo Messi and of the FC Barcelona

After the scandal as a result of the leak of the agreement of Leo Messi, the FC Barcelona pronounced through a communiqué in which it informed that it will take legal measures. "The FC Barcelona denies categorically any responsibility in the publication of this document, and will undertake the timely legal actions against the newspaper 'The World', by the damages that can him cause as a result of this publication", prayed the communiqué.

The press release continued saying that "the FC Barcelona expresses his absolute support to Lionel Messi, especially in front of any attempt of desprestigiar his image, and to damage his relation with the entity where has formed deportivamente, until turning into the best player of the history of the football". By his part, the Argentinian star studies to report to the possible filtradores.