The last time that he Real Madrid felt the Barcelona pressure when he went out in search of a decisive signing it was in the fight for Neymar. On that occasion, Sandro Rosell won the game against Florentino Pérez, even if it was at the cost of paying a very high price for the dark architecture of the signing, which ended with Barça condemned. Since then, Madrid and Barça have only competed on the pitch. Since the victory in the elections and the return of Laporta to the Camp Nou box, the competition has also moved to the market. Both entities seek to hunt in the same preserve looking for two pieces as prized as Haaland and Alaba.
Both the Borussia Dortmund striker and the versatile Bayern defender have been with him for some time. Real Madrid radar, but the irruption of Joan Laporta As president of Barcelona, he comes to interfere in negotiations that Madrid had already started.
As this newspaper learned, the next president of the club held a meeting in Barcelona meeting last Wednesday with Pini Zahavi and Fali Ramadani, agents of David Alaba. Asked about this particular in RAC1, the winner of the elections was out of the game and took a long pause when the journalist Jordi Basté asked him about the matter. “…Is not true”. To then say that “My contacts with representatives come from afar. We know how the situation of some players is and if they are interesting for Barça and the possibilities allow it, they can come. “
Since the beginning of the campaign, Laporta he has avoided talking about proper names so as not to destabilize the team, but has also steadily dropped that maintains Good relations with the greats representatives of the best players. And one of the ones he knows well is Pini Zahavi, who takes care of the Alaba interests, which has already announced that he will not continue at Bayern.
With whom Laporta also maintains a fluid relationship it's with Mino Raiola, the representative that brought and took Ibrahimovic from Barcelona making a great business and what now represents Erling Haaland, a footballer who is in the sights of the great teams in Europe.
Laporta is aware that this time he goes into battle with less arsenal than his competitors. The economic potential From Barcelona is scarce and it depends mainly on the sales that the Blaugrana team can make.
What Barça does have is a president with contacts, and that he is going to stand up to Madrid in the market. It will not be the first time, as soon as he became president in 2003 Laporta hired Eto'o after playing electorally with the confusion he created around Beckham. The illusion to snatch him from Madrid was pearl, but finished in white.