🗣️: "I had the hope, although it was a point of illusion, that Messi would say he was ready to play for free. I would have liked that, But we can't make such a request to a player of Leo's level."
🗣️: "We will never know if PSG's offer was made before. Everything indicates that yes. During the negotiations, everyone knew that he had a very powerful offer." #FCB
🗣️: "We are considering several possibilities, but the one that is most likely is to play at the Johan Cruyff Stadium. We are thinking of expanding it. It would be just one season at most. It would have a capacity of 50,000 members." #FCB
🗣️: "The project for the new Camp Nou says it will last 3 years and I estimate up to 4. It will fit 110,000 people. [Will it have a name with a sponsor?] Yes, we will have to optimize all the resources." #FCB
🗣️: "For the Barcelona city it can have an impact like the Olympic Games. We have become a world reference for futuristic leisure and entertainment." #FCB
🗣️: "Koeman is a Catalan like all of us, Barça loves him, he is a myth of Barcelona, he decided to come and train in a difficult situation. I needed to know if he trusted this team and he told me yes. It was fair to give him the margin of confidence."
🗣️: "I talk to Xavi often, we are friends. When I talk to him, also to Pep, I like to tell them things. But in a plan of people who know more than I do." #FCB
🗣️: "We have a very advanced contract for Pedri and we hope we can tell you about it next week. Ansu Fati's is also doing well. We are in the process of trying to renew all the young players we have." #FCB
🗣️: "We’re still working on restructuring his contract. He has made a great gesture. It is not fully closed yet, since there are details that still need to be completed." #FCB
🗣️: "The CVC operation, as planned , was the candy that the president of the League gave us because we thought we would have 'fair play' financial, but it was unfeasible" #FCB
🗣 "Koeman continues with a basic principle of believing in the person who has been since we arrived, of believing in what Koeman tells us, who is the one who runs the day-to-day of the squad, along with Alemany and me."
🗣 "We listen to the messages that Ronald sends us about how the team is doing, its situation and based on what he tells us, the executives advise us to make the best decisions."
@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on bad results, doubts over Koeman and then things changing.
🗣 "We come from a situation of accounting failure, as our CEO explained the other day. We find ourselves in a club still immersed in an economic crisis."
🔄 (STERLING): If Ousmane Dembélé is sold or he doesn't renew his contract, Barça want to sign a player with a similar profile and this opens the door to Raheem Sterling's possible arrival in the January transfer window. #FCB#MCI#Transfers 🏴
@martinezferran ❗The club, for their part, doesn't see it as a problem and they have valid reasons too.
• Pedri's release clause of €400m is likely to be maintained but what Barça understand is that his contract has to be adapted to his prominence. #FCB 🇪🇸
@2Playbook • The executive has assured that the interest of investors is evident, since in the last placement directed by Goldman Sachs they received requests for €900m, almost double what was intended to be achieved. #FCB
@francefootball Lionel Messi: "Honestly, I wasn't expecting it. I went back to prepare for the pre-season after the extra holidays that Koeman had gifted me. I had the idea of signing a contract and going back to training."
@francefootball Messi: "I thought everything was done and the only thing missing was my signature, but when I arrived in Barcelona they told me that it was not possible, that I can't stay and I had to find another club, because Barcelona no longer had the money to renew me."
Live thread for the press conference where Ferran Reverter (Barça CEO) will show the results of the due diligence made about the situation left by the former board . #fcb
Read more here ⤵️
Reverter: The thing that we will do today is an exercise in transparency that is rarely done in a sports club. The board promised in the campaign to explain to the members the numbers of what has happened these years.
Reverter: Some of you will think that it took a long time. you are right. 90 days after the last board left the emails were deleted. The directors did not have club computers but personal ones where the emails were redirected. The documentation has been hard to find.