LAPORTA INTERVENED IN TIME
La relación de Laporta y Mendes, clave para que Balde y Lamine no hayan dejado el Barça
Joan Laporta's advisor and right-hand man, Enric Masip, has recently spoken that the possibility of Alejandro Balde or Lamine Yamal leaving FC Barcelona was on the table due to the strong interest of a team
Lamine Yamal and Alejandro Balde have turned into two of the big 'perlas' formed in The Masia in the last years. The players, in spite of his youth, have turned into key pieces in the approach of Xavi Hernández in the FC Barcelona and are to the doors to sign his renewals to extend his stay in the City Condal. The confidence in both is full and the agreements are smart, to fault to be signed in the next days.
The true is that the history could be very different for the players and the Barça. The rumours that the Manchester City was interested in the incorporation of both have been confirmed by the adviser and right hand of the president Joan Laporta. Enric Masip, the one who has offered recently an interview to 'Esport3', has confessed that the continuity of both was in danger.
Laporta 'Saved' to Lamine and Balde
The relation that saves the Barcelona president with the representative of both footballers was key so that they were still in the City Condal. It is not a secret for anybody that Jorge Mendes is a 'expert' to the hour to move to his players and that always is attentive to the operations that more could generate gains for all the parts interested. In the last summer starred three movements in the Barça, with Ansu Fati, Joao Cancel and Joao Félix, but could be more.
Enric Masip has confessed that Joan Laporta was key so that so much Lamine Yamal like Alejandro Balde did not change of airs in the last market of signings in front of the interest of a club, that has not wanted to appoint: "The relation of the president with Jorge Mendes is the reason by which Alejandro Balde and Lamine Yamal remained in the Barça. Both players ran grave danger to abandon the club", sentenced.
Lamine And Balde, untransferable for the Barça
In the last days have been varied the sources that have coincided in that the Manchester City of Pep Guardiola had showed interested in the incorporation of both players, but up to now had glided that the club not even had listened them. It did not go more than a small score, put from the Barça appointed them like untransferable players. They are called to be two of the big leaders of the team to short and long term, by what is impossible that listen offers by any of the two.
