Joan Laporta, candidate for the presidency of FC Barcelona in the elections of next March 7, has valued in a ceremony with partners in La Teixonera, Barcelona neighborhood, the good moment of Barça and has praised the role of Ronald Koeman, insinuating that he has options to be his coach for the next season if he commands the club.
“When you are president of Barça you have to make decisions and KoemanLike all coaches, it will depend on the results and the game. But i’m seeing that Koeman every time he takes the tone more and more, the team takes the tone more and more each day, and now what is appropriate ex experience. Koeman He is now our coach and what I will do is motivate him to the maximum. I like the change in orientation you’ve made with your statements lately. The team is more and more like a pineapple and that is the key to success. There has to be a leader like Messi and players who pull the cart. Seeing the players celebrate their goals like this, like in Granada, cheers everyone up. They have told me one thing from the inside: the players know little about him, but they appreciate that he is up front. And that he already had as a player. He has a margin, he deserves respect and he is our coach ”, he explained Laporta, microphone in hand, answering questions from attendees.
Regarding continuity, he has declared “moderately optimistic”, arguing that “it will not be easy for Messi stay because you have club offers. state, and money is not short because there is a magnate or a state behind. But Leo is comfortable here and I am convinced by what I know him and by what I love him that he wants to stay. Leo loves Barça and he is very well in Barcelona, here he has power. I am convinced and I enjoy the credibility of Leo, I feel the experience because I have had very beautiful moments with Leo and his family. He has had proposals to leave and he stayed. You will surely believe what I am going to promise you. Everything I have proposed to you, I have fulfilled. He knows it and has told me ”.
“Messi He knows that now this will change and I am convinced that due to the relationship we have with him, he will wait for us to make a proposal within the possibilities of Barça, because the first thing I will do is an audit to see what the real economic situation of the club is. and what economic proposal can I make. He will help us because he does not move for money, but I will make him a very competitive sports proposal. I have an advantage over the other candidates because I know him, I have a good relationship with him, of respect and affection, he knows that what I have told him I have fulfilled and that gives me credibility with him when facing his renewal. We all agree because he is a player who generates more income than he charges and is the reference player, our leader and we have to ensure that he continues at Barça ”, added the former president.
In his initial parliament he was also forceful in this regard: “We have fundamental pillars in our project, one is to motivate our players and the coaching staff because Barça does not have transitional seasons, we play the League and the Cup and we have a tie against them. of PSG that they want to take from us Messi and we cannot allow it. The best way Messi continue at Barça is to eliminate PSG, it will be a tie that will make fans and I hope it goes well. But for that it is essential to encourage the players to make a pineapple like in Granada, I lived it with an intensity and with an emotion and with some nerves that had been a long time ago, because it was very exciting ”.
“We will not sow panic about the economic situation”
And on the economic situation of the club, he conveyed tranquility: “In our candidacy we are very motivated, we love Barça and that gives us a very great strength. Our main motivation is that we want the members to continue being the owners of the club, it is fundamental. We are also in a time of maximum economic difficulty and we have a crash plan to reverse this situation and to re-float the Barça. The club with us will once again be economically sustainable. We have the experience, we have the preparation, we have the determination and we are not afraid to convey a message of tranquility and optimism because, no matter how complicated the economic situation is, we already have experience and we do not have the fears or sow panic, that is mistake because the Barça It has very important objectives that will help to reverse the situation ”.
