🗣️ Gerard Piqué: “I was born here, I grew up here, I've lived almost all my life here in Barcelona.”
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: "kissing the badge? It was what I had to do. I want to point out that all the captains will do the same, I did it faster but they'll do it as well."
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: “Reducing my salary was my duty and I wanted to give something to the club that I love. the other captains will do it now.”
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: “The three captains, Busquets, Alba and Roberto are doing their best to close an agreement with the club. The club has asked for an effort and they will do it. I'm proud of all of them.”
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: “I'm sure we will be very competitive and fight for all the titles. We will definitely have fun together.”
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: We are starting a new stage without Messi, we played a good match and everyone wanted to give his maximum. We won't have the talent we had before, but today we showed that we're going for everything.”
🗣️ Gerard Piqué: “Messi is the most important player in the history of the club, but we have to continue. There is a lot of quality, we'll be very competitive, I'm sure that we'll fight for all the titles.”
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THREAD → President Joan Laporta's Q&A session with journalists.
‘How do you justify the €7 million that was paid to an arbitration company?’
🗣️ Joan Laporta: “This amount was not paid at once, but rather over a period of 18 years. They are for reports on people (referees) doing very important work.”
🗣️ Joan Laporta: “The former vice-president of the Refereeing Committee did NOT have any power over the referees and he could NOT make football decisions or adjust sporting results.”
– “This has been confirmed by a number of referees who have spoken on this issue.”
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FC Barcelona General Assembly.
🔹576 members were present during the meeting.
🗣️ Joan Laporta: “Welcome Socios, we will observe a minute of silence for the deceased members.”
🗣️ Joan Laporta: “Thank you for coming to one of the most important meetings in our history, I want to start the meeting clearly: we know that we want more, we want championships, we are Barça and we want to go back to being a reference.”
Ronald Koeman's first press conference of the season:
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🗣️Ronald Koeman: "Excited to start and do it with 20,000 fans in the field. We know the quality of Real, that last year we already played several games against them. We look forward."
🗣️Koeman on Pique's salary reduction: "We know the economic situation and the club needs help in every way. It is very important and we must highlight the attitude of Gerard, Roberto, Alba, Busi....