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big salaries, Dembélé, Umtiti, arbitration, the white jersey… The truths of Laporta and Alemany!
It’s at all times a vital assembly on the facet of Barça with the overall meeting of socios which permits the supporters of the Catalan membership to elucidate themselves straight with the Barcelona leaders. Joan Laporta and Mateu Alemany, Barca’s president and technical secretary, responded to many necessary membership subjects along with the Lionel Messi case.
On the arbitration in opposition to Inter
Laporta: “The arbitration we suffered in opposition to Inter is shameful. It was such a giant scandal… I feel UEFA ought to come again to it. He’s a referee who has already refereed us in opposition to Bayern and who has not seen one other penalty on Dembélé. The Tremendous League might be way more skilled, we are going to resolve an issue that distorts the market and will probably be extra skilled. »
About Javier Tebas
“Mr. Tebas we have now identified him for a very long time. He’s a person of character, very vehement, very jealous of his individuals. He’s an individual who have to be on the service of the golf equipment and generally he forgets it. Relying on the way it involves him, he’s very cautious, and relying on the way it involves him, no. Generally he applies a really restrictive imaginative and prescient to us, even when generally he himself noticed that he needed to have a broader imaginative and prescient. »
On Dembele’s extension
Alemany: “I’ve to say that the purpose of rivalry on Dembélé’s extension was to make it clear to the participant and his agent that his wage was off the market and that he needed to adapt to the membership’s new wage grid. »
About De Jong
Laporta: “Frenkie de Jong continues to be with us. We had superb affords of very massive portions. We most popular to maintain the expertise. »
On the discount of massive salaries
Laporta: “We tried it with a number of gamers, but it surely couldn’t be attainable and we needed to assure 10 million. We accepted it with sportsmanship”
Alemany: “After we arrived, there have been off-market contracts which prevented us from registering in La Liga with the 1-4 rule and which made it troublesome to promote gamers. 75% of those salaries now not exist and the target is that these salaries disappear. Gamers have to be paid in accordance with the market. They can’t be as much as 400% above market worth. »
On the Umtiti case
“We aren’t contemplating declaring an incapacity for work, we’re on the lookout for different options. We are able to hardly rely on him for the long run, as a result of not one of the coaches we had felt he may play, so we are going to attempt to make a everlasting switch. »
On the controversial white jersey
“It’s difficult as a result of it’s important to work on it two years earlier than and when you announce it. The one for this season was ordered two years in the past. Identical to white. After we arrived it was already determined by the earlier rdirection. What we have now tried is to enhance it with some particulars. »