Joan Laporta: “For me it is as if LaLiga started now, I see the glass half full”
BARCELONA, 17 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, commented this Tuesday that the Blaugrana club is working on several fronts to be able to register the men’s first team players Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor in this winter market, the new contract being with Nike. , which must be approved by the partners in an extraordinary Assembly on December 21, the spearhead of these operations.
“We are working on their registrations. We want to have all the possibilities to register them open, and the judicial route is there, we are appealing to obtain a precautionary measure, and also so that the margin that Ter Stegen leaves us is valid for Dani and Pau. We are working on the line of depositing money for the ‘fair play’ rules to be able to register these players,” Laporta told the media at the usual Christmas meeting.
For Laporta, the contract with Nike is “fundamental.” “LaLiga, with good judgment, has told us that we had to pass it through the Assembly on the 21st and we have to respect it. This could give us the necessary ‘fair play’, if approved. And there are other operations that we are about to carry out.” conclude to have this income that LaLiga requests for the ‘fair play’ rules to register Olmo and Víctor,” he argued.
Thus, the judicial process, taking advantage of the salary margin left by Marc-André Ter Stegen’s injury, the contract with Nike and new income that are close to closing would be the different open fronts to be able to make Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor able to play LaLiga EA Sports and the Copa del Rey until the end of the season.
Regarding the club’s objectives for 2025, he assured that the Board’s priority and objective is to reaffirm Barça in the first line of sports in the world. “We want to continue with the economic improvement and in this dynamic of improvement in which we are installed, and which is progressing very well. Also reaffirm that Barça has a specific institutional weight in sport, which is going well,” he commented.
“And we are making the collective dream of Barcelona fans of the Spotify Camp Nou come true, which is progressing in accordance with what was planned, with imponderables but in the line of when the first phase of the ‘Champions’ ends, being able to return to the stadium as soon as possible, in adequate conditions,” he said.
On a sporting level, he acknowledged that he would like the men’s team coached by Hansi Flick to be better, after suffering two consecutive defeats in LaLiga at home, against Las Palmas and Leganés. “We are working hard on the sporting issue. You can imagine that in football we could be better, but I am not one of those who looks back,” he commented.
“For us it is as if LaLiga is starting now, we see the glass half full and we have to have confidence in the players and coaches. And we have that confidence. Of course I would like to be within 7-8 points, we have lost points that we should not have lost and it is true that we have gotten a little confused, but this has happened and we have to look forward. We have to remind the team that every game is a ‘Champions’ game, starting with Atlético de Madrid,” he said.
“I call on the fans to cheer more than ever on Saturday. The team needs the public, it is a very young team that needs that support from the stadium. There are more glorious moments than others, but we work to give good news in 2025 and that they can be given from the new Spotify Camp Nou, an ideal place to make us ‘culers’ and Barcelona fans happy,” he said.
CHRISTMAS FOOD WITH THE MEDIA
At the typical Christmas lunch with the media that follow the current affairs of the Blaugrana club, he assured that they ask for “veracity” and “contrast” from the media that want to publish news about the club. “At Barça we appreciate that the truth is sought in the news, fairness. This is how reliable information is given about what is happening in the club,” he appealed.
“We want the search for the truth so that all Barcelona fans know it. We know how to differentiate information, something non-negotiable when it is achieved through the search for the truth, and another thing is opinion, a broader space that raises more tensions. But what “We accept it quite naturally,” said Joan Laporta, who called for “vigor and neutrality” in that “search for the truth.”