Bartomeu confirmed that the Barça was near of fichar to Mbappé

Josep Maria Bartomeu was the protagonist of the program 'The holy cows' of Esport3, where spoke long and tended on the Assembly of the Sunday and on his management during his mandate like president of the FC Barcelona, management very questioned from the economic, but also from of the sportive, since had the opportunity of fichar to the very young for then Kylian Mbappé, but preferred to give him course to the operation by the also French extreme Ousmane Dembélé.

Already the history had made public it Junior Minguella, son of Josep Maria Minguella, a relate that it already had explained several times previously his father. "Can confirm it. In fact, now more than ever because already some director confirmed it and gave his version of the history, is totally truthful. We find us a situation in which by my father knew that Neymar had an agreement with the PSG and went for there. The leaders of the club or did not know it or no believed it to him and were in this moment in which Neymar, by a bonus contractual, still had not confirmed that it went and the club said that it did not want to step before Neymar went out", explained during an interview conceded to the Chain COPE, in which aseveró that, tras the operation of the Brazilian, the picture culé had to decide between Dembélé and Mbappé to substitute to his star of the moment beside Luis Suárez and Leo Messi.

"In the moment in which it confirms that Neymar goes out, the technicians and the president have doubts on the player that want to incorporate and think that goes them better for the type of game of the team Dembélé that Mbappé. Even any even said that this of Mbappé was a fantasmada, that against who there was empatado this boy. Had the enclosed agreement in 130 millions more 25 in incentives. Mbappé Would win between 10 and 16 net millions", sustained.

Bartomeu confirmed everything

As the history has confirmed it the own Bartomeu years afterwards and when his name is more than controversial in the City Condal in a Barça entirely dismantled of figures between the two last summers. First with the exit of the Uruguayan forward to the Athletic of Madrid and later the one of Messi to the PSG and Antoine Griezmann to the same conjoint 'colchonero'. Everything, by the financial crisis that inherited after his management in the dispatches.

"It was on the table his signing, but the technicians preferred to Dembélé because they wanted a player that opened the field", went the words of Bartomeu in said program, in where it evaluated the "success" of the operations in which they saw involved so much Dembélé and Coutinho, two of the highest index cards in the Catalan entity, but that have had a lot of problems with the injuries and performance in field.

"Any of which have done have not fulfilled the expectations, Players that have cost a lot of money, but these things happen in the football. When fichó to these two players were signings applauded by all. Coutinho Came because Iniesta went . It was the best of the Premier League. Dembélé Came by the course of Neymar. The parameters, as they say the specialists, is 50% of tarpaulin and of errors", explained Bartomeu.