Laporta: “We have a better team than Real Madrid”

Laporta is aware of the challenges in the market due to the salary cap, but makes it clear that: Barcelona team favorite to win league and that it is better than your eternal rival. “We have a better team than Madrid. and individually we are better than our competitors with some differences. As a member and as a fan, I’m very happy with the team we’ve created.”

Laporta ensured that he didn’t look at what other teams were spending and was just focusing on improving Barça. “We already have a very competitive team. We won the Spanish League and we can continue to dominate this competition. I focus on building a good team rather than signing individuals. We Agreed with Gundogan and Iñigo Martínez And they’re going to give us a great performance like the others to come.”

“We are clear about the coach’s wishes. Maybe we are missing a wing and something in the midfield and we will try to satisfy him. The team has won important championships once again and we are ambitious for the future. He is working well and the coach is doing well. We want to experience more joy.”

Arda Guler

According to Laporta, Turkish Arda Güler was close to Barça. In fact, Deco agreed with Fenerbahçe and provided the transfer of the football player. Laporta confirmed in the interview that the agreed figure was “17.5 million euros” and assured that “we agree with the player”. But everything went wrong when Real Madrid stepped in, something the player himself said in his presentation with the white team.

The Barcelona president is clear that “we could have come to compete” but they didn’t even take that into account: “Neither with Arda nor with other players who want to come to Barça.” This is because we “impose on ourselves criteria that we will not exceed” in order to “never come back”.

And this Laporta was not willing to enter an auction For a football player who still needs to show a lot of things at the highest level: “We have to apply common sense and we think we should move away from this operation because of the enormity that has occurred”.

That’s when, as the manager said, “other clubs later joined” and it was made clear that Florentino Pérez was the club’s president: “Madrid came in and thought they had to pay the sums they paid.”. On the other hand, “we thought we didn’t have to go in there” because “there are more players than we thought we could make without going into this war”. “We think this would be a mistake on our part,” he concluded.

Victor Roque

On the other hand, Vitor Roque signed his new contract with Barcelona and came from Athletico Paranaense.. The club will become official in the coming hours, but his transfer has been closed one hundred percent. So much so that the only thing to know is when he can join Xavi’s project and disguise himself as a Barça member. Questioned about this, Laporta understands that Fair Play will depend on how the first team evolves at salary level.

In fact, Laporta said during the interview that her landing at Ciutat Esportiva was also tied to a “liability plan”, but it opened the door to creating “an income that gives us Fair Play.” In that case, they will have to make a decision about recruiting one or the other player.”

And this The initial idea of ​​the business is that Vitor Roque joins the group in January 2024.coincides with the opening of the winter transfer market. Although no one at the club ruled out the possibility that the Brazilian player would eventually continue through the season, expecting to join Xavi Hernández’s group in the Athletic Paranaense. All options are open because the football player is burning with the desire to play for Barça, and Barça with the desire to be like that.

However, depending on how the market management is going and how Barça’s financial balance is, its incorporation will happen sooner or later. If nothing changes, from today everything is scheduled for January 2024.