Florentino Pérez denies his involvement in the departure of Messi from Barça

Florentino Pérez denied this same Wednesday to Jaume Llopis, ex director of the FC Barcelona, that ensured does some days that the president of the Real Madrid kept a relation of become friends with Ferran Reverter, CEO of the Barça. According to the Catalan, the maximum mandator merengue convinced to the culé so that it spoke with Joan Laporta​ and paralysed the agreement between the Barcelona, LaLiga and CVC. With this, purportedly the Catalans descartaron the continuity of Leo Messi.

"To Laporta convince him Ferran Reverter, the new CEO, that it can not sign with CVC, and Florentino Pérez with the project of the Superliga European. It gives the circumstance also that Ferran Reverter has friendship from does time with Florentino Pérez and between both convince him and Laporta changes radically of opinion and denies already to be followed negotiating". These were the words of Llopis by which has 'jumped' Florentino in his writing.

The president of the Madrid left clear that does not have at all that see with the "no" of the Barcelona to Messi and that does not know too much to Reverter. "In front of the statements effected by Jaume Llopis, exmiembro of the Commission of the Espai Barça, want to manifest the following: it is categorically false that keep a friendship from does time with the CEO of the F.C. Barcelona, Ferran Reverter, since it is a person with which have coincided so only twice in my life", began his communiqué the mandator madridista.

Florentino detailed how and when were his meetings with the CEO of the Barça to leave clear that the statements of Llopis do not sustain by any side. "One of the times that saw us was four months ago and the another the past Saturday in the meeting that took place in Barcelona with the president Joan Laporta and the president Andrea Agnelli, when already it had produced the official communication on Messi", detailed.

Florentino denies to Llopis and asks a rectification

Directing directly to the ex director blaugrana, the president of the Madrid denied his information and confirmed that he did not have any influence in the 'case Messi'. "Therefore, it is impossible that I have had some influence neither in the exit of Messi neither in any another decision of the F.C. Barcelona. Like this then , I expect that Jaume Llopis rectify what before these statements that do not correspond with the truth", finalised.