🎙[SPORT] | Josep Maria Bartomeu: “Koeman has lost Leo Messi. As president, I didn’t want Messi to go and did everything possible so that he would not leave the club.”
Bartomeu: “I thought it was good for Barça and for him that he stayed with us. This summer, they let him go and that to me seems a bad decision. Playing without Leo Messi means there have to be a lot of changes.”
About Koeman
Bartomeu: “He came to the club at a delicate time, after a painful defeat and accepted the challenge of taking on the club in this situation.”
🎙[MD] | Josep Maria Bartomeu: “In 2010 we got the club when it is in the top in terms of football. Today he is a role model in all areas, both socially and economically.”
Bartomeu: “We left a club in good condition. The situation is not as serious as you are told.”
Bartomeu: “With Iniesta’s retirement, we acquired his replacement Coutinho, the best player in England. I don’t know why it did not work.”
Confidential: He has asked for much more and maximum involvement from the squad for the duels against Valencia, Dinamo Kiev and Madrid than how Barça has been paying all season
He studies tactical changes and hope that the players will take a step forward to engage themselves in LaLiga and the Champions League
🎙[SPORT] | Bartomeu: “it’s been a year since we resigned as the board, and although we would like to be more anonymous we made a statement because things have appeared referring to us that don’t seem accurate.”
Bartomeu: “explain to the socios that the situation is not as bad as it seems within the club because it’s a situation provoked by Covid.”
Bartomeu: “The effect of Covid was 225 million euros, for the loss of income, minus the savings made on bills.”
📰 [SPORT] | After Pedri’s renewal, Barcelona can focus on various other cases at the club where they need to sort out contracts or make decisions: there are five that stand out
ANSU FATI
Negotiations between Barcelona and Jorge Mendes have begun over a new deal for the young forward
SERGI ROBERTO
The club have had to start from the beginning after previous negotiations broke down
🎙 [De Telegraaf] | Rafael van der Vaart: "Frenkie de Jong is like Kimmich, but better."
Van der Vaart: "Frenkie should be judged less as a scorer or a number 10 because he is not. The discussion is over. He should be compared to Bayern's Kimmich, but he is still better."
Van der Vaart: "Frenkie has a hard time against small opponents because they don't leave spaces. That is why he is not at his best at sixteen meters away from the goal, and unfortunately he will never become a true scoring midfielder, I am afraid."