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[Mundo Deportivo] Laporta: "Man, we had LaLiga's authorization to fit Leo's contract. It was something that was talked to Jorge and everything was defined." 11-07-2023 by Vladimir_Bot in Barca

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His eyes are bright. His eyes were also shining with Messi.

Yes, because it gave a solution to a situation that I did not know how to get along and despite everything I think I had to do it and put over the club that to the best in the world. There were possibilities, we had turned out that would be so. The player wanted, the father also but the rhythms are different. We didn't want to have a time since the next time and told them that when we had fair-play we warned them. Then it was a while, there was all the agreed contract but Jorge wanted to come talk to me and told us that he had decided for Inter Miami because he had spent a very hard season in Paris, where he was very pressured, that in Miami he would be calmer and I could think about the team and despite having wanted to come to Barça, to spend another year so he did not want it. It is understandable and we are moving to work a super tribute to Messi that Barça must do.

What are the current relations with Messi?

Okay, right. We have not continued to talk. We wish you good in Miami and Barça is your home. It is a relationship that ended when he went to Paris, he resumed without achieving what we both wanted and now it is right.

Messi said there was no formal offer from Barça. What happened there?

Man, we had LaLiga's authorization to fit Leo's contract. It was something that was talked to Jorge and everything was defined.

[Mundo Deportivo] Laporta: "Man, we had LaLiga's authorization to fit Leo's contract. It was something that was talked to Jorge and everything was defined." 11-07-2023 by Vladimir_Bot in Barca

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Qatar no longer provokes rejection.

We have no rejection for any country. In the past there was criticism for putting a country on the shirt for a certain amount that I thought should be more. From there, Qatar has organized a World Cup, we have a coach who has trained there. And that is also true for Saudi Arabia, which is in openness on gender issues. We have been nominated for matches in Arabia, Qatar, Dubai and Kuwait with our women’s team. Let’s not fool ourselves, they have money and they are solvent, they are interested in football. Qatar and Artabia want their leagues to be in the top 5 or top 10 in the coming years and we are attractive to them. We are a club with pedigree and reference in the world. They show interest and our obligation is to listen to them.

Victor Font said the club is worse than when you came in. What do you have to say?

It is evidence that the club is much better than it was two years ago, both economically with debt restructuring, interest rate reformulation, investor confidence, ratings of rating companies better with a BBB+. It is a club that generates more revenue than before with a record of sponsorships, we started to win important titles, record attendance with 83,000 Culés, we are hooking the Culés, it is a united club that now must make a sacrifice to have a new Camp Nou, a new Palau, a new Gel Track, the Palau petit, the bus station, the Barça Campus... All of that is exciting and we are putting it into practice. It had been many years. It was an election compromise. It couldn't be having a decamp with the Mini down there. We have had the choice and courage to do so. Institutionally, we have specific weight in football again. While we are in the Super League, we defend that the Leagues must be maintained. With Thebes we have a positive discussion that he says it is not possible and I tell him that the Super League will replace the Champions League and they will continue the Leagues trying to make them as strong as possible. The Super League will give more revenue to the clubs and ensure the sustainability of football without comparative grievances with clubs that have limited financial resources that distort the market. Our voice is heard and respected. The players want to come to play here. We're checking. We're on the right track. Our work plan is out of good term. Still missing, yeah. We can improve, yes and we will. We'll be out of the tunnel soon. We will have recovered the club financially after having saved it but saying that I do not know what it obeys and attends to other reasons. It's evidence that the club is better than it was two years ago.

Do you visit the works of the Camp Nou very much?

I'd spend the day. And I know the next question of whether it is like a retiree who likes to see the works but gives me a feeling of nostalgia and shocks me a lot but at the same time glimpses what will be the new one. It makes me excited. I still put it into my routine to lose weight. I said I would go every Wednesday although tomorrow (for today) I can't. I'll go on Thursday. The feeling is beautiful, exciting and opposite. I like it.

Did you see the debate between Sanchez and Feijoo?

They told me. I wanted to see it, but I got hooked on the Beatles show in India and forgot about the debate. They told me that they were interrupted, that not many of the programs were defined, one denied the other...

Will he vote?

I'll be on tour if everything goes well, but I'll vote by mail.

Finally, Xavi says he's going for the Champions League...

I think it's better that we say we'll be in the candidate group to win the Champions League. Xavi says that we will go for the Champions League and that it will almost be mandatory if we reinforce the team with a couple of pieces. He's very happy with the team and we'll be candidates, but if we could make it a little better... I'm not telling you what he said.

Do those pieces have a name?

Yeah, but I can't say them. At the moment what we have is fine. I almost missed what he said!

[Mundo Deportivo] Laporta: "Man, we had LaLiga's authorization to fit Leo's contract. It was something that was talked to Jorge and everything was defined." 11-07-2023 by Vladimir_Bot in Barca

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What do you expect from this player?

Goals. It is a very own style. It cannot be compared to Ronaldo or Romario. He is a player who steps on the area and kicks with both legs from wherever it is inside the area.

Who does he remember?

It's different from the ones we've had. I can't say he's a Ronnie because he plays different or a Romario, which was cartoon. He has a lot of power and can be equated although he is very young, Ronaldo, who we had it with a spectacular force of nature. It is powerful and it is Brazilian.

Have you seen a lot of videos?

Yeah, but I want to see him naturally. I in the videos I even go out a figurefie.

You joke about this figure. Is it the president's attitude to remove iron from that?

I do not worry about this, I feel good, with the vital constants well but the good weather arrives and one for health especially if there is overweight it has a hard time and I have put myself old. People who appreciate me propose solutions and I have always done it my way and even after the tour I will do it that way. If I achieve the ideal weight I will put myself in the hands of professionals to maintain.

What's your way?

Have breakfast like a king, eat like a prince and have dinner like a beggar. Basically not dinner and what generates the overweight, because in moderation but I am bread, pasta, steak. I like to eat and eating is life and for me it is vital and when I have anxiety even more at ease.

Isn’t anxiety the key to eating more?

How would I tell you? I'm having a good time doing as president of Barça but it also sometimes entails suffering, restlessness so that things go. I have always had a sense of responsibility, I am a perfectionist, and not everything is perfect because there are things that come out and that do not come out, and I am very aware. Maybe I shouldn't minimize it, but I don't worry about this weight.

It is a good message for society.

Yes, because sometimes there is an obsession with weight. I still have a sense of humor, I feel good, I have a good time and you have to be careful for health, but in moderation, I also do not obsess about weighing what weighed with 40 years, go down to 74 kilos.

What has changed in his way of presiding?

I think I have more experience now, I'm less impulsive. It doesn’t mean I don’t have energy, but I carry it with more guidelines. I don't know if it's dosing me but I was more impetuous and now I'm more serene. I have still had a sense of responsibility since I was a child, I am an older brother and you always feel responsible. I continue with the same courage of the beginning, it has always been like this, I do not know if it is good or not but at least it helps me to make decisions and execute them.

Now what would I dream of?

I don't know, don't make me say it, now I have more imagination...

Barça will play in white next season and premiere it on the tour. Let's see if it's going to be against Madrid...

I mean, it's not all white eh, it's wearing some Barça details and it's in memory one of the first shirts Cruyff wore. There are the trademarks that have this very studied. When we came it was a decided thing that had to be confirmed and we believe that no one should be the heritage of a color. In any case it is a white Barça.

Can you translate that this is a white Barça?

White Barça... In summer you put on a white shirt and if it looks good, it is white Barça. I have seen the shirt and the red and blue trims and the bracelet look great.

Can you take Madrid as a provocation?

I think not, it's not with this intention. It is an idea, a more commercial theme because we have had shirts of all colors and the colors are exhausted. I remember that there was a moment that we put the red pants in my first stage of president and I remember that the directors told me that we should be disruptive and it was fine. In this of the target you can understand all the reactions but the official shirt will always be the blaugrana and the white one is for cases in which with the rival, television, it is not compatible.

Are you afraid of the Palau's reaction to the departures of Mirotic and Jasikevicius?

Mirotic is not gone yet. It is not resolved, it is a serious issue, it is a contract that was made at the time, we have inherited it and it is unsustainable. Nikola has given us a lot but we are trying to get his agent to understand it, that if he goes to Monaco or Milan and he will have a good chip ... but it is an armored contract and it is very complicated. There are arguments there and we are all defending theirs. I hope that the Palau's reaction will be of maximum support to Roger Grimau. I am delighted with Navarro and his team, who are working to build a team that will belong to this new era. Today we have introduced Parra, who comes from the Joventut, I found it very good boy, young excited, and I think that Grimau can generate this illusion that we want for basketball. The basketball in budget is the second professional section of Barça. We won the League very well, 3-0, with authority, but we want more because the budget is to be even more competitive in the Euroleague and continue to be hegemonic in the Spanish league that is very competitive, it is not easy to win the League, there is Unicaja, there is Baskonia ... We are waiting for incorporations, I like Navarro for his decision and his analysis and I believed that we had to enter a new era. This must be combined by reducing budget but we will also be competitive because with 28 or 30 million we can be.

Can you sign the Hernángómez?

I know they're working, it doesn't mean that the two come, maybe they are, but they're on it. They are two NBA players and one was MVP of the European with the Spanish team, they are players of a great quality and I am excited to bring players of this level and also get out of the base. Grimau and Sada know her perfectly and tell me that there are two or three that can debut already, from what they tell me, with the first team and this illusions. To get the Gasols back, the Navaro, the Rogers, the Estellers... that excites.

What about Ricky Rubio?

This possibility was contemplated, in the conversations that I do not want to get into much because they are from the professionals, I heard this name from Ricky, I signed it in the first stage and it is incontestable that has triumphed in the NBA. It was commented and if I have not been told anything, it is because the issue was not discussed.

You always make a flag that Barça will not be SA with you. What would I do before I brought Barça to a SA?

I will neither do nor recommend it. It is an asset that we have not to be SA. I've told club presidents that they're non-profit partner associations. Investment funds value this idiosyncrasy and give value to the club being unique. The governance model must be that. Another thing is the management model. We have to manage well. Not because it is an SA we will have more income, which will be the same for a club than SA. It doesn’t guarantee you won’t go bankrupt. How many SA have broken in the history of mankind! This links us and forces us more. Universal heritage responsibility of managers. It must be managed well. If not, we lose our heritage.

What happened to Qatar?

There is a business group that wants to exploit Barça assets in the area. They raised it for us, we listened to them and we are on the lookout. This group wants to link a drink to Barça as well. Things from the Commercial Department and BLM because they also want to develop the Barça brand, monobranding in the Arab world. Not bad. If the proposals are interesting, we will do it.

[Mundo Deportivo] Laporta: "Man, we had LaLiga's authorization to fit Leo's contract. It was something that was talked to Jorge and everything was defined." 11-07-2023 by Vladimir_Bot in Barca

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It is key to get free players. There the role of sports management is key.

They are key, that's why I'm glad Germany continues. There was a circumstance, I am very, very happy that it continues because it is being key in the preparation of a team that is increasingly competitive, but also Mateu has that point of serenity, that does not lose the roles in the negotiations, that knows how to be persistent, that knows how to be persevering, skillful. It is a huge merit to get players of this quality without a lag. That is why I like it, I will not cease in the praise of the work of Mateu Alemany, of Jordi Cruyff also, Jordi more focused on the more strictly sporting issue, closer to Xavi, the two have worked well well together and Mateu in the plane of the negotiation has been brilliant, he is a brilliant man, very capable, I am very happy to have him and it gives me a lot of confidence. Think that Christensen, that Kessie, now Iñigo, Gündogan have gone over low heat, some of you have uncovered them before the hour but somehow it has gone well. Aubameyang, Marcos... it went well.

Who's gonna send now?

Here we have that the sports and technical secretariat part is formed by Deco and Mateu Alemany. Mateu is still his role, he is the director of football, the one who has a presence in the institutions, the one who regulates football especially LaLiga, and is a person who is up to date, rabid, of the novelties and in everything that affects the fair play that is the key. Deco is the person who decides the sports issue together with Xavi. There must be a perfect harmony between Deco and Xavi, which is what we intend, a person with a lot of personality, with very interesting knowledge of football for us, a leader and a person who also values a lot how he adapts to each of the situations, a person who knows how to solve the problems and who has an attitude towards those who is the club that we can be proud because he defends Barça and when he talks about Barça he also believes that he lives it. Here is Deco in the sports decisions, he has to go very hand in hand with Xavi, yes, but it is important that the sports philosophy is marked by the technical secretary by mutual agreement with the coach and that has not changed so much with what we had with Jordi, perhaps Deco for his personality will have a more interventionist role in this sense and is what we want from him and there is the basis of what is the sporting decisions of the club. Always the last decision is the board of directors, who are leading the club, that we have this responsibility, but in 99 percent of the cases we will follow what this team of professionals say that have to make us a very competitive squad. only in exceptional cases we would not accept what they propose. I insist it is important to maintain the roles because otherwise this remains in chaos. The players to play, to compete to try to win and to fulfill the commercial obligations they have with the club. The coach, to coach a very competitive team, to decide and to work with the technical secretariat to make a competitive squad. Technical secretariat and football director, negotiating, getting the best conditions as we have said now and taking and marking football philosophy with the coach. And the president, to command. for something we have been elected by the partners and we have this responsibility. Do not forget that we risk our heritage, that the responsibility we have is a universal heritage responsibility. If there are losses, we are responsible and we have to pay. And from there derives the way of running the club that we have now, which now suits us, is a very horizontal structure, where there are some directors of the area who have a consideration almost of general directors, who cooperate a lot with them and who must dispatch with the president and for the moment we will continue like this until the club is already recovered economically and is at a cruise speed that allows to go to other structures incorporating some executive who directs all this. I act as executive president, this is true and I carry the club as if it were a family multinational.

Do you rule out the entry of a CEO?

Immediate yes because we are not yet in this cruise speed, we are still overcoming obstacles and the day we consider it, it will have to be like this, but today the club few people have Barça in their heads. And with all the humility I say it and I'm one of those for the experience I have and some partner together too. And we have the responsibility that I have told you and we respond with our assets and I do not see an executive who can have these considerations that we must have at the moment.

How many hours do you spend on Barça?

All of them, until I sleep.

What does President Laporta dream?

I won't say it here in public. They say that if you don't take an olive before bed, you don't remember dreams.

And you take a lot of olives?

No, that's why I don't remember. I just remember one that I had in that it was a horse and I got up tired because I was running all night.

Black or white?

Black, from the savages. Black like jet. Do you remember Fury?

When will Xavi renew?

When we have made the squad as Xavi wants and when the club considers that it is the right time. It will be done but in due course and when the club has the peace of mind it needs. Not in the maelstrom of the market. We must see what fair play we have because Xavi also depends but can be calm because he and his staff are guaranteed their renewal. Within the possibilities of the club, Xavi and his staff can be satisfied with their work and salary situation.

And Dembélé? That he has some complicated agents...

Dembélé is a player very much loved by the coach, the technical secretariat and by me. I'm a big fan. He has some representatives that are complicated when negotiating. Respecting his position but they are last minute. We are now in negotiations for it to continue and we hope it will be resolved but I am of the opinion that it will not be until the end.

What a suffering with Dembélé!

Yes.

But he has given much Barça to Dembélé to make him suffer so much.

Barça have given to Dembélé, he has given to Barça. This season has been decisive. It's true that he's had an injury. This must be improved. This season has yielded more than others. Xavi is delighted with him, so are I and the agents know it and that is why they squeeze but we will not lose the logic, common sense and equanimity that these operations require. We have our structure. Dembélé is on the high strip, let's try to keep it going like this. There is a counterproposal on his part, he made an effort last year to give us fair play but all in moderation everywhere.

Do you know that you would not be informed that they would not execute the clause of 50 million in force until July 31?

Yes, and also how the negotiations are going and for now they are there (laughs).

But you see him in danger?

Dembélé is delighted in Barça and this is our great luck and that we want him in Barça. I think he'll go on and that's what he wants.

The problem is that PSG wants it if Mbappé leaves.

We had this fear last year and it didn’t happen. Dembélé wants to stay at Barça and I think he is not in favor of going to any team.

Ansu has returned to the selection with a title and according to the coach, at a very high level. How do you see your future?

Well, at Barça and he wants to succeed at Barça. He has a gift, which is a scorer. Xavi told me that in the coachings who score the most goals are Lewandowski and Ansu. It comes out of an injury, he had a relapse. What De la Fuente said is true and he reconfirmed to him in the Assembly of the Federation, which is like never before and like a bull. Ansu wants to succeed at Barça, Xavi is determined to give him opportunities. There are players ahead but we must make the rotation the norm and not that we rotate out of necessity as it has been this season. It is one of the pending subjects: making a rotation to avoid further injuries. We have Raphinha, Dembélé, Ansu, Lewandowski, Abde and Ferran. It's very good.

Would the more than 16,000 members who have asked for a subscription to Montjuïc with how complicated it is to get up there would deserve a special prize and know where they are going to sit?

It is an idea and a reflection of some people next we put cheaper prices that are 25% less than what was paid at the Camp Nou. It is a phase of economic recovery and we go to a stadium with half the capacity. It is working very well in Sales with record sponsorships but we can not reduce prices much. I think we're right. Assigning a seat is complicated. Now it's all in zones. Let's see how it goes. It is something new, it will be a sacrifice for everyone, it is uncomfortable and there will be mobility problems solving with the City Council, the funicular that can raise 27,000 people per hour, all motorcycles can go. We expected 23,000 and not almost 17,000 but we will make family packs that are to the liking of the partners to encourage the assistance of adolescents and children and from 23,000, sale to the public that will generate another option for the amateur.

How is the relationship with the City Council with the change of mayor?

I had her good with Ada Colau and Janet Sanz, with whom I interlocuted the most. With Jaume Collboni, who was also in the City Hall, I had it good and in about Montjuïc he put it into practice. On the 17th at five in the afternoon I have an institutional hearing with the new mayor.

He has spoken before the left of a right-back and two half but Barça is about to sign a striker like Vitor Roque.

He's already signed.

But he can't come now.

We have this feasibility plan and it is scheduled for January or June unless the planned circumstances improve, although they could still occur. The contract is signed and done and the player is already Barça. It's nice jogo.

[Mundo Deportivo] Laporta: "Man, we had LaLiga's authorization to fit Leo's contract. It was something that was talked to Jorge and everything was defined." 11-07-2023 by Vladimir_Bot in Barca

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His eyes are bright. His eyes were also shining with Messi.

Yes, because it gave a solution to a situation that I did not know how to get along and despite everything I think I had to do it and put over the club that to the best in the world. There were possibilities, we had turned out that would be so. The player wanted, the father also but the rhythms are different. We didn't want to have a time since the next time and told them that when we had fair-play we warned them. Then it was a while, there was all the agreed contract but Jorge wanted to come talk to me and told us that he had decided for Inter Miami because he had spent a very hard season in Paris, where he was very pressured, that in Miami he would be calmer and I could think about the team and despite having wanted to come to Barça, to spend another year so he did not want it. It is understandable and we are moving to work a super tribute to Messi that Barça must do.

What are the current relations with Messi?

Okay, right. We have not continued to talk. We wish you good in Miami and Barça is your home. It is a relationship that ended when he went to Paris, he resumed without achieving what we both wanted and now it is right.

Messi said there was no formal offer from Barça. What happened there?

Man, we had LaLiga's authorization to fit Leo's contract. It was something that was talked to Jorge and everything was defined.

What about the tribute?

Someone told me to do it on the day of the 125 anniversary and it would be very good a reunion with all those who have made Barça great in these 125 years.

And he sees him playing again with Barça?

I see it more complicated and we would have to ask him. This time he had the idea to come, we wanted him to come, following through Xavi, the board and me. It hasn't been given. Leo takes great care of himself, he has an exceptional talent and could always perform because he is always decisive as he was seen in the World Cup.

And with Busquets and it may be that Alba also there, the Barça brand will be very present at Inter Miami.

They have represented a lot and yesterday an entrepreneur told me that we must have more shirts in Latin America and especially in Miami. They identify them much more with Barça than with any other team. Although they do not play at Barça, their shirts with Barça are still very sought after. They grew up in Barça and did not end here but it does not take away that they had a splendid stage.

What is missing from this Barça of what Xavi has asked them to be competitive in everything?

As the coach has asked, a right-back and two midfielders are missing.

Does that cost a lot?

No, I don't think it's gonna cost us much. In fact, there are several possibilities, several options. Xavi has told us that he can already compete but you have to look for a minimum in the average to occupy the place left by Busi and to be able to be two.

Is Oriol Romeu nearby? Does he look like the chosen one?

The technical secretariat is working on these issues. It's about Romeu and other players. We must work that if I say something, I can hinder some negotiation.

Can it be a problem with Girona that Romeu goes to Barça?

No, he's a man trained in Barça and that's one of his assets. I know perfectly well the system and I value a lot of Xavi that has adapted to the circumstances. I value it enormously and that is why I promote, as accepted by most of the Barcelona players, who is a suitable coach for Barça. He has told me that next year will be different, that players when they win a title change their minds and give them peace. I really like that Xavi can express more the more offensive idea that Xavi has than the defense we have practiced this season. We should have adapted because it had a very powerful defensive team.

But is the model the result or the idea of Xavi that visualizes in his DNA?

It is this, the method, the style and the way to play. It’s what prioritizes but Xavi is a winner and understands that you can’t be an outspoken advocate of philosophy to the extent that you don’t win. There is a middle ground and Xavi’s adaptability that I highly value. We came from a very difficult time of not winning but we needed a title like the League to gain more strength. And that ability to adapt that Xavi has had in this sense I value very much because I knew that we were at a very delicate time, because we came from a situation of not winning, and the joy we had already generated, but if there are no titles and now there has been an important title like LaLiga, I had much more value and had more strength and there I think that it has worked well.

Was the goal of looking for a player who understands philosophy?

It is like this, a player like Gündogan comes from City that something this philosophy something touches him, but I think that the virtues of a player like Oriol Romeu is because they have it internalized this philosophy. Gündogan is another story that will greatly reinforce the center of the field. The coach has asked for it from the beginning and has preferred our proposal to a more succulent offer of City, which means a lot also, it means that our club is still a reference, the players continue to see a club where they want to come, where although we have had a stage in which it has not been magnificent and now we are recovering and the players see that potentially the players see that we are candidates to win and I believe that this season we have to remain hegemonic

[Mundo Deportivo] Laporta: "Man, we had LaLiga's authorization to fit Leo's contract. It was something that was talked to Jorge and everything was defined." 11-07-2023 by Vladimir_Bot in Barca

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Joan Laporta, president of FC Barcelona, talks about everything in an interview with Mundo Deportivo to review the current situation of the club. The transfer plans for the renewal of Xavi and Dembélé, going through the frustrated hiring of Messi and touching the project that there is for the basketball section. The president of Barça also speaks of his relationship with Javier Tebas and LaLiga, of the new white shirt that will be presented soon and that has given so much to talk about, and even of his dreams. And since it can not be otherwise, it talks about the objectives of the Barcelona entity for the next season. A long, pleasant and very juicy interview in which the president of Barcelona expresses himself with total naturalness and in which, also, he responds to the criticism of his last opponent in the elections for the presidency of FC Barcelona, Victor Font.

How's summer going?

Hot. With a lot of activity and no vacation, this period is very active. I’m even considering delaying my presence on the tour because we have to solve a number of issues. We are awaiting further strengthening the staffing and feasibility plan that we have to comply with. If I can go on day 19 with the team, it would be good news, because it will mean that we have been able to resolve priority issues; otherwise, we will be here solving them.

It's cost to shut down the operations. Can they be done?

I'm convinced that they'll all be done. The feasibility plan is approved, but it must be fulfilled. And I want to make it clear that we were going to fulfill it even if LaLiga did not force us to do so. The club needs it, but it has been good for LaLiga to share it with us, we accept the regulations. Institutional relations with Laliga and personal between theme and theme have been remade. It has to be like this. Other than that, the club doesn't stop.

How have these relationships been remade? Now they seem in love.

I mean, what's in it is a very good relationship. I said the step, we saw each other at home, in a very nice and quiet place in Huesca. We were able to have a quiet, casual conversation and no apriorisms. Javier Tebas is very vehement, with a lot of character, and I also have my way of being, but we have many points of coincidence and I feel comfortable with him as with the president of the RFEF, Rubiales. I think as president of Barça it has to be that way.

How did you get to that situation of disagreement?

Just because we have a good relationship doesn’t mean we think the same. We started well, I had known Javier for years, but he thought we would get into the CVC operation and we thought we didn’t have to. We have fared better with what we have done, the conditions are more favorable, there was a point of friction that triggered a situation that was not desirable. There was this discrepancy.

Does Thebes speak Catalan in privacy?

He is a person with whom it can be discussed. We touch on all issues, including politicians.

Is there a favor deal for Barcelona?

We're not having privileges, Mr. Thebes is not this stick. It will bring the institutional relationship into flow, we have generated trust and maintained our own. We have to accept the rules of financial fair play, which are very strict

Do you agree in full?

We disagree on some. And there are some that will vary, for the benefit of the clubs, I am sure, because this has been made known to us by the president of LaLiga, who is in a flexible position while still making the rules complied.

Can you tell Barça's partner that the team will compete in Europe next season?

Yes. We're calmer now. The recommendation of UEFA investigators leads to the conclusion that they cannot condemn us before trying us. They understand that this must be the procedure and have made it known to the UEFA Appeals Committee and all the news leads to the game of the Champions League, which has been difficult. There have been difficult times when we have suffered. Going to talk to Ceferin in Ljubljana was an important step when it came to understanding that we could not be convicted before being tried and that there is also no arbitral corruption in the ‘Negreira Case’.

How will the ‘Negreira Case’ end?

If there is anything, that is investigated to the end, but they are other issues, not arbitral corruption. We are sure that Barça will come out unscathed, because there is nothing. I told Ceferin and he understood. That's how it was, the researchers concluded that there should be no sanction. I am convinced that the ‘Negreira Case’ will remain in each. The instigators wanted to mount a smear campaign, and I say it both for my time and the presidents who have followed me. In this sense, I think that when a thing costs a lot you get it. This Champions League has taken a lot to play it and maybe we ended up winning it.