The exit of Mateu Alemany of the FC Barcelona forces to Joan Laporta to resolve a problem, in principle, unexpected of face to the summer. The current director of football of the group blaugrana confirmed his goodbye the next 30 June, although it engages to accompany to the directive during all the window of passes in which the main challenge culé is to convince to LaLiga to leave them fichar.
In this sense, one of the names that take strength in the corridors of the Camp Nou is the one of Antonio Cord, the one who left the sportive direction of the Real Betis the past month of February. The executive extremeño has a wide experience in a charge that occupied in the Villarreal between 1999 and 2016, in addition to his brief stays in the ACE Monaco and the ecuadorian selection of football, where coincided with Jordi Cruyff.
The key man in the negotiation with Cord
As it advances relief, the good relation between Cruyff and Cord would be key for gestar the contracting of the employer of 59 years. In fact, both coincided for the first time in the Chongqing Liangjiang Chinese, where Antonio fungió like CEO of the sportive part of Hope Group, group that also administered to Granada, Parma and Tondela. Jordi was technical of the Chongqing from August of 2018 until December of 2019, before assuming the bench of the selection of Ecuador.
For Laporta, hire to a replacement for Mateu Alemany that keep good relation with the current sportive director blaugrana is fundamental not to add a new drop in the flat elder of the club, just before a market that will be very complex by the need to adjust to the Fair Play of LaLiga and the possibility to recover to Leo Messi the one who is about to to break his relation with Paris Saint-Germain.
The reasons of Alemany to leave
From it did several weeks, the Aston Villa had initiated contacts with the Majorcan to convince him to assume the sportive direction of the group directed by Unai Emery. The súper offer of the 'peasant' added to some desencuentro with Joan Laporta regarding the planning of the market veraniego would have precipitated the goodbye of an Alemany that had agreement to the end of the 2023/24.