❗️Pedri has challenged himself to score 10-12 goals this season. He already improved his scoring records last season and maintains confidence in front of goal.
• He wanted to reach that figure last season but sadly got injured. #FCB 🇪🇸
@martinezferran ❗️Since arriving at Barça at the age of just 17 he has challenged himself with short term goals to continue growing. He wants to be a leader of the team. #FCB 🇪🇸
@martinezferran ❗️Pedri first managed to convince Ronald Koeman to have a place in the first team, then earned a spot in the starting XI, made the jump to the Spanish NT and kept on improving. He has also worked a lot on his physicality. #FCB 🇪🇸
@martinezferran ❗️And still Pedri's ceiling is limitless, according to what they point out from inside the Barça dressing room, who see the him as a key player. "When he [Pedri] was injured last season we dropped in level and creativity" they lamented. #FCB 🇪🇸
@martinezferran ❗️However, the youngster had a thorn in his side, that is to score more goals. Xavi asked and helped Pedri to try and score more and the results are already being seen.
• Pedri wants to be a complete midfielder and is working on it. #FCB 🇪🇸
🗣:"We will have a very hard game away from home, we have seen that in past years, always we will try to take control of the game from the beginning and score quickly."
🎙|Xavi on Piqué
🗣:"He trains well and he does his own extra sessions.”
🎙|Xavi in the pre-game press Conference ahead the match against NY Red Bulls
"I would like Messi's time at Barça not to have ended. I think he deserves a happy ending here. I wish so. If the question is whether I would like him to come back? The answer is a resounding yes."
🎙|Xavi on Kounde
🗣"I'm very happy with the arrival of Koundé, he will give us a very good ball output. He's a great signing, he will help us a lot."
🗣️: "I did what I had to do, in order to put the institution above the best player in history. I know Messi since he was a kid. I love Leo, and Barca loves Leo. If you ask me, how do I feel? We owe a moral debt to him."
🗣️: "I will do my best in order to give Messi the best end of his career in a Barça shirt. I would like to do it. It won't be easy, we think that with a correct strategy we could do it."
@CBSSportsGolazo 🎙️| Joan Laporta if he has spoken to Messi on his return to Barcelona
🗣️: "This is just an idea that we have at the moment, and I will do everything in my power to make it happen and we want to make it come true through a specific strategy."
🗣 “We owe a moral debt to him. I would like him to end his career in a Barça shirt, and be applauded at all the stadiums.” 🇦🇷🐐
Laporta continues:
🗣 “It is an aspiration that I have. I feel partially responsible for how things ended, and I feel that this is a temporary end and that we will make this dream a reality. At least that is the dream.” 🔵🔴
Laporta on criticisms of Barça’s transfer policy from Germany:
🗣 “I would tell them to look at the bank account. They got some important money from the Lewandowski deal. They are distorting reality.” 💰🇩🇪
🗣️: “If the new Barca signings will reach the start of LaLiga ? Ask FC Barcelona. I can say that they know the rules well and they know what they have to do. They still have things to do, but there is still time.”
🗣️: "They have sold 10% of their TV rights for €207M. Then they increased that part to 25%, which I think means about €350M more... That would already be €500M and I think they still have another third lever of another €200M."
🗣️: "With this and if they release some players is what explains that chance to sign. They have been able to sell assets, which was something they had to do, and cut wages; it is what allows them to sign."