Thread by @Barca_Buzz

🎙VP Rafael Yuste in an interview with @mundodeportivo.

🗣 "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."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "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."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "To this must be added the injury situation we have suffered, with which Ronald has had very few opportunities to have the team at 100%."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "If we add to this that he has had the courage to have the players from home, all this makes it very difficult to have a team in conditions to be able to face the maximum demand match by match."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on Koeman's 'it is what there is' statement.

🗣 "Ronald is a great person, very clear and very friendly, and although there are times that we do not like what he says, he has reiterated this many times."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "But he doesn't tell us that as an excuse. For example, he tells us that he cannot play 4-3-3 because he does not have wingers because they are injured."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "I have been fortunate to be on the old Laporta board when Rijkaard and then Guardiola were there, and there were also moments of doubts because the fans and members passed us on the evaluation of the results."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "That phase of understanding between the president and coach always takes a while, and lately that approach is getting much better."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if Koeman is being treated unfairly.

🗣 "More than unfair. I think that people need to understand more that we are in a complicated moment and we need people to help us, give us confidence and be with the young people."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "If we can continue this patience, I am convinced that the results will come."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if the message of union reaches the dressing room.

🗣 "Yes, we are a family and the message has to reach everyone, the coach, physios and players."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "We have been with the captains and we have told them not only that we believe in Koeman, but that the Laporta board wants to deepen this new project, where we mentioned the high performance center."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if Koeman's future is in danger between now and 30 June.

🗣 "I think that we are going to achieve good results. If I went to the next 3 games thinking that we are not going to win, I would directly impart negativity, not only to Koeman but the entire club."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if he manages to convince Laporta.

🗣 "Laporta listens to me, perhaps I'm one of the people closest to him, but we also have a football director, technical secretary. I give him my opinion and he creates his own. In this case, give Ronald absolute confidence."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if Koeman's future depends on the next 3 games.

🗣 "Ronald isn't only a great professional but also a great Culé. Apart from being a Barça great, he also gave us the first UCL. He knows what it's like to be in that dressing room & that this club needs to win."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "Although a difficult phase is coming with great rivals now, I am sure we will achieve good results."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if he knows the details of the conversation b/w Laporta and Xavi.

🗣 "No, the president talks a lot with Xavi, with Pep, with a lot of football people, and I have not asked him because sometimes they are private things."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if Xavi coaching in Qatar is a problem.

🗣 "I don't want to discuss it for two reasons. Xavi may or may not be one of the options when you look at the market, there will be more names, but I am focused on creating a positive environment around Ronald."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "If the coach doesn't feel strong, neither do the players. And this is where we are."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on the objectives for the season.

🗣 "The maximum, without forgetting that we are in a reconstruction phase and with many young people. This has to be consolidated little by little, and hence the importance that people have patience and that the media help us."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if there were tensions while negotiating with Messi.

🗣 "In all negotiations, and especially with people you are talking to and you love very much, there are different phases where tension is normal, positive tension, of course."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "When both parties want to continue, but you see that for many reasons, in this case due to the 'fair play' of La Liga, it will not be possible and the other party finds it difficult to understand it is normal that there is."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on did he argue with Jorge Messi, Leo's father.

🗣 "We talked and we said things very clearly, nothing more, at no time did I argue with him. I made him see the situation of the club, that when we arrived we thought it was a bad one."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "But that when we were already negotiating we found out that the economic situation was not bad but technical failure. And that had to be explained."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on Laporta repeatedly saying 'everything is progressing well' with Messi.

🗣 "And it was true, we did not know the first results of the audit until after a few weeks of entering into office."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "In August, we still did not have the latest results, but they were already pointing out that they were going to be dramatic. And by a principle of prudence, what the president says is that the club comes first."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "I want to be frank, as sports vice president, it created frustration that Leo did not continue, but within this frustration I am also very proud to see that the president and the board think that the club came first. This has to be so."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if the CVC deal was a poisoned candy.

🗣 "More than a poisoned candy, we like to look at things with all the details. We have an exceptionality in La Liga, our journey is different, and as our CEO said, we have other lines without having to borrow more money."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on Javier Tebas saying that Barça was at Florentino Perez's service.

🗣 "We know Javier Tebas well, there is a good relationship with him, he is vehement, and sometimes he does it even to provoke, so that he is part of the negotiation."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "We are still talking to him about the Super League project. We are Barça, we respect all clubs, we want to be in the League, but defending our interests. The relationship is cordial."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste talks about signings.

🗣 "Between now and next year we will see what the situation is and what we can count on for signings. First you have to put the partitions in a house that we have found in ruins, so let's focus first on fortifying it."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues, and discusses Erling Haaland.

🗣 "First feed the household and then we'll see what we can do, without losing sight of the fact that we always want to have the best and Haaland is one of the best in the world."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if it's feasible to sign Haaland knowing the cost of the operation.

🗣 "No, I don't see Haaland happening at the moment. The president and the CEO said it, that in the previous term, which I also reiterate that it has been disastrous."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "The previous management bought players without knowing if they could pay and that all they did was increase the debt, in addition to finding us ridiculous wage bill that we have encountered."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on the returns of Agüero and Dembélé.

🗣 "Kun is gradually returning to training, Ansu is already about to start, while Dembélé is about to return."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "But we are talking about players who are coming from long-term injuries, so there will still be a few weeks to count on all at the best level, because if we generate stress, the easiest thing is for them to relapse."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on the High Performance Director Barça are looking for.

🗣 "It is very simple, you play as you train. In training there is not only the physical part, but also the nutritional, psychological, sports sciences, mentoring, living together."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "I would like Barça to be the best sports city in the world. This high-performance center has to be the best in the world, because we have the best brand in the world."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on Barça having a 4-day break.

🗣 "In international breaks there are always changes in the rhythm of the training sessions that are scheduled, but those who are here are trained and we will soon recover the team."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on the narrative that other top European teams are physically superior to Barça.

🗣 "I respect the sensations but they are subjective, in the match against Levante I saw a team with a very high intensity."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "But we still have a long way to go to achieve that excellence that we seek. Ronald Koeman knows of our concerns and that we need one more step to achieve that excellence."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste on if Barça should save money for the summer rather than spending in January.

🗣 "I prefer to be governed by the principle of prudence. We are coming from a situation of a huge economic crisis, therefore, prudence."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "I believe the positive message from Reverter because it means that we are beginning to see the light a little in reversing the situation, but I think that with the squad that there is, once they are all recovered, we can compete with guarantees."

@mundodeportivo 🎙Rafael Yuste continues..

🗣 "With this I do not mean that the ultimate goal of Barça is not to have the best, which I would like to do, but not now."