🎙[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.”
Bartomeu: “After the renewal of Messi’s contract in 2017 more players also asked for salary upgrades. We were able to afford it because of the high budget.”
Bartomeu: “The home players have a special treatment in their contracts because of what they have contributed to the club. Both the high salary and everyone at the end of the contract gets a departure bonus. Xavi and Iniesta had it and Messi has one too.”
🚨| Bartomeu: “In 2020 we received an offer of 150 million euros from an English club for Ansu Fati. We refused it. The same English club before that offered Dembele a higher amount than we paid for it, and we also refused.”
Bartomeu: “Without the Covid virus, the club would have lost only 50 million in the 2020-21 season.”
Bartomeu: “I would have signed the CVC deal. I don’t know the exact terms, but they are a great way to get short term income for the club.”
Bartomeu: “About Arthur. we were in a pandemic, with drastic income reduction, and Arthur wanted a salary increase. We couldn’t do that. Juventus came to offer money + Pjanić.”
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