Laporta: “The rumors about Mbappé are a show”

Joan Laporta He has come to the fore to cool down in person the rumors about FC Barcelona’s interest in Mbappé that emerged on Thursday night in a report from the newspaper L’Équipe.

“Here everyone is free to send messages and proclamations and we already know that this is part of the world of football, that the big clubs are interested in great players. But I am not going to enter, and you have to allow me not to do it, because if I do it, the only thing I can do is harm the interests of our club (…) I want it to be clearly understood that we prioritize the team above all else, a team that is reinforced in each of its lines and what we do not participate in is about elevating players or looking for players who are more than the team. That after 0-4 Mbappé is linked to Barça is part of the football Show BusinessI have nothing to say about it,” the Blaugrana president told Sports world in an interview to be published in full tomorrow.

asked if Barcelona, ​​in the financial situation in which it finds itself, can go to bid for Haalandthe president was just as cautious: “I am not going to put the institution at risk with operations that, even if we were already healthy, we would not do them. Barça is not going to lose its head. That the partners and the partners are calm because we are not going to lose our heads for an operation of these magnitudes. The majority of players want to come to BarçaThey like the club, the team, our philosophy, our way of working, of understanding football. And this is good, we are verifying it in many cases and daily. They will have to adapt to Barça’s salary levels and to an economic structure of the operation that maintains the sustainability and balance of the club.”