TOn Tuesday, Joan Laporta’s book “How We Saved the Rose” was released, in which he describes what the last five years of his presidency have been like. Current candidates talk about how they have had to face turbulent economic conditions that require imaginative formulas to improve the situation. MARCA has access to this book from the editor who explains the main points of the book.
Messi’s departure
Regarding contract renewal negotiations, Laporta said Messi had a “demanding” team around him, but his father was more understanding. “We came up with a crazy solution: the first stage as a Barça player and the second stage as a long-term contract, on loan to an MLS team,” he said. “But La Liga told us to forget about it. We had to sign a deal to sell part of our TV rights for 50 years through a fund called CVC.”
Jorge Messi came to the house, I prepared a contract and sent him a draft, but he did not reply. A week went by, two weeks went by, a month later, he finally came back to my house and told me that he had decided to go to Inter Miami. There won’t be as much pressure there.
Koeman sacked as manager
Coach Laporta sacked Koeman. He told him so because it was clear he wasn’t his coach. “Ronald came to see me with his agent Rob Jansen and he asked me: ‘Am I your coach?’ And I reply: ‘Ronald, you’re a legend to me. I cried at Wembley, but I have to say you’re not.’ He didn’t take it well at all. ”
Negreira incident
Laporta defends the club and attacks Madrid in this case. “I urge all those who accuse such frivolous and frivolous refereeing corruption to identify specific matches, goals, plays or questionable acts of favoritism that allegedly occurred as a result of this technical advice. For 70 years, Madrid members, former players and former managers have appointed referees who will do justice on the field of every match. It was without a doubt the biggest scandal in the history of Spanish football!”
super league
Although they initially supported joining the Super League, they ultimately withdrew. “At first it was not clear, but after studying all the documents we realized that this is a historic opportunity that could take us to 700 million. Barça has always maintained a consistent position: first of all we seek an understanding with the top bodies of football and try to find the best solution for Barça.”
Relationship with Xavi
He says of Xavi’s departure, which had many ups and downs: “It turned out that his physical preparation was flawed (…) But at the end of the season, he told me that he wanted to continue, even though he had already announced his departure. He told me that at a much talked about dinner at my house, he ordered sushi as if he were ordering lamb chops. So I asked him if he believed in his team, and he said: “I will make them champions 100%,” he replied.
He arrived disguised with a hat on and told me he believed in the team and that everything could change.
From that moment on, the former coach became ambivalent. “I thought I should have asked for advice from someone more professional, but I relented and told him that I would do it for him, even though I might look bad in front of everyone. ‘You’re Xavi and you love Barça.’ But a few days later he said something like he wouldn’t be competitive for another two years. I called him and told him this wasn’t the right way for us to do it. I was admitted with pseudo-pneumonia and was in a Barcelona hospital, but he wanted me to see him.”He came in disguise, wearing a cap, and told me that he believed in the team and that everything could change, but the next day he told Deco that he had to change quite a few players, and that it was me and Rafa Juste that he met at Ciudad Deportiva, and that it couldn’t go on like this. ”
Rimac
“For this project, we chose the Turkish construction company Rimac, both for technical reasons and because of the challenge that carrying out a project of this scale for the first time in the European Union poses for them, but also to avoid the risks inherent in political action in the case of traditional Spanish construction. Rimac won because it accepted all the contract terms proposed by the club, which were much more stringent than the standard contract in our country, especially in terms of the guarantees provided, given the need for operating funds in Turkey.” Spotify in the North American market. The bidding procedure for the Camp Nou renovations was exemplary from a technical and transparency point of view, and the entire process was supervised at all times by the Club’s Compliance Department.
