🎙| #BenficaBarça | Ronald Koeman: “I don’t know if Benfica is the fittest team, but it is a strong club. I had the experience of knowing how great it is. It is a beautiful game in which we need a good result. Both teams have their style. We can expect a interesting match.” #UCL
Koeman: “We do not risk qualifying for the next stage.This game is not decisive.” #UCL
Koeman: “Without a ball we were very well against Levante. We pressed and didn’t let Levante play. We always try, but there are games in which it comes out better or worse. It depends on our attitude and how we can press to steal quickly.” #UCL
Koeman: “Ansu? I do not know if he will go with the Spain NT. The player has a long way to go. For me it was a good day, we won with a good game, Ansu also played and scored. I can not comment on selection issues. He was out 10 months, he only played 15 minutes.” #UCL
Koeman: “My relationship with Laporta? I haven’t seen the president today, but I’m sure we’ll see each other this afternoon and talk about training and tomorrow’s game.” #UCL
Koeman: “Luuk de Jong? He signing was at the last minute of the market. It also depended on the injuries we had. He gives us a lot, he’s a different attacker. The other day he was good and when we need him he’s available. He also has experience in big games in Europe.” #UCL
Koeman: “We expect a difficult game. They have strength in the home games. The Portuguese mentality is to attack and with players at the top.” #UCL
Koeman: “Barça always play to win, our intention is always to control and have the ball. Pressuring the opponent does not depend on the system, we can always do it.” #UCL
Koeman: “Ansu was emotionally tired yesterday. We also have to consider how the mental issue can affect. He trained without problems and we will try to give more and more minutes. I can’t tell you before every game how many minutes we are going to give him.” #UCL
Koeman: “We analyzed Benfica. We know what their strengths are. We want to get the ball. They are fast when they have counter-attacks. It is important to get the ball and if we lose the ball, we have to be organized.” #UCL
Koeman: “I do not like to speak individually about the rival. They have Otamendi, Vertonghen and fast players at the top. The most important thing is to prepare the match.” #UCL
🎙 [Barça TV] | Joan Laporta: "Regarding the decision of the Procicat not to increase capacity of stadiums to 100%, it is a very great damage, that they say that these restrictive criteria must continue."
Laporta: "It represents a very great economic damage and we have made it known because we have behaved with a sense of responsibility and understanding."
Laporta: "We are in a pandemic and the percentage of vaccinated is increasingly high and we believe that, in free spaces, if La Liga proposes 100%, we would be more satisfied if the Procicat accepted these percentages."
Laporta: "In life, no one is infallible, but Barça's medical services have a high level of effectiveness. They are very responsible people, professionally and personally."
🚨 | LaLiga have cut another €300 million from Barça's spending limit, with six clubs in the Spanish top-flight now permitted to spend more than them | @samuelmarsden@moillorens
@samuelmarsden@moillorens The bar for operating costs for Barça for the 2021-22 season has been reduced to €97m, which is almost €650m less than rivals Real Madrid, whose limit has been fixed at €739m
@samuelmarsden@moillorens The reason Barça have had such a steep drop (steeper than expected) is because of president Laporta's decision to, basically, make last season's losses as big as possible by writing off certain assets etc. €481m losses presented by the board when had estimated at €200m
📰 [SPORT] | Confidential: The figures of Ansu Fati's current contract, which Barça wants to review and improve
€2.5 million is his total gross fixed salary expected for the three seasons of 2019-2020 (€721,500), 2020-2021 (€832,500) and 2021-2022 (€943,500)
If the player plays more than 40% of the total matches for the season, he earns an extra €111,000, while if he plays more than half, it would be €222,000, and with more than 60% it would reach €333,000
A match, based on the contract, is considered as playing a minimum of 45 minutes in match
Finally, if he wins the treble, his bonus would be €1,332,000
🎙️| #BenficaBarça | Jorge Jesus: “Tomorrow we will have a bad time against Barça, we will play against great players. They are one of the strongest teams in Europe.” #UCL
Jorge Jesus: “Barça are a team that runs risk, because they trust a lot in the individual quality of their players." #UCL
Jorge Jesus: “Barça is still one of the strongest teams in Europe. Even without Messi, they are very strong. No one doubts that any team in the world is stronger with Leo, but this year Barça only lost against Bayern, nothing more.” #UCL