Laporta ‘cools’ the Haaland operation

Joan Laporta left everyone speechless tonight during his presence with FC Barcelona supporters’ clubs in the Alicante town of Orihuela, taking advantage of the fact that the Blaugrana team plays this Sunday in Elche. And it is that the Blaugrana president categorically denied having contacted Erling Haaland’s agent, Mino Raiola, as well as He also questioned whether Xavi Hernández would have gone to see the Norwegian striker in Munich this week: “I deny that there has been any type of negotiation for Haaland. No meeting, no conversation. Nothing, and about the possible meeting between Xavi and Haaland in Munich, that’s none of my business, but two athletes can talk about football, I suppose”. Likewise, he recalled that in the case of wanting the Norwegian striker, “The first thing we would do is go to Borussia Dortmund, which is his team”.

Surprising in any case, the statements of the top leader of FC Barcelona, ​​which he made to the Four cameras, because he had never hidden until now the club’s interest in taking over the services of the Borussia Dortmund striker. In fact, both publicly and privately, he had recognized that it was his priority for this summer, although he also assumed the difficulties of the operation, since there were other clubs, such as Real Madrid and Manchester City, very interested in the Norwegian.

However, never before had he been so categorical when defining himself for Haaland, thus cooling off the striker’s signingwho is currently in Munich, recovering from an injury to his right adductor.

In any case, we will have to wait if these statements are part of a strategy: We must not forget that the dizzying figures of the Haaland operation were even published this week, which was going to be 300 million euros, between the transfer, the commissions and the player’s record.