"CEO? Laporta and I believe that where I am is the place where I should be"

Barça sources already flatly denied on Thursday that Mateu Alemany becomes the new general manager

Mateu Alemany, Barça’s football director

Pep Morata (MD)

13/02/2022 20:59Updated 02/13/2022 09:01 PM

Matthew Germandirector of football FC Barcelonaconfirmed that the Barça club does not think of him as successor to Ferran Reverter, who presented his resignation as executive director of the Barcelona entity last Monday. “Laporta and I believe that where I am is the place where I should be”, said himself German in Movistar +.

Although his name was circulated in some media on Thursday, sources from the club have already flatly denied that Matthew German becomes the general manager after having held said position in the Valencia (2017-19) and a similar one in the Mallorca, where he was also CEO (1995-2000) and Chairman (2000-05 and 2009). The director of football Barça from April 2021 he will remain in his position. In the club they value a lot German and his work in the sports area, where he already has a very extensive workload. The board is delighted with how it has carried out the restructuring of the staff of Xavi Hernandez improving it in a very difficult context due to economic limitations and the salary demands that mark LaLiga.

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