Praise for Alemany from Marseille: "He is the most intelligent in European football"

One of the artífices of the recent signings of the FC Barcelona has been Mateu Alemany. The director of football of the Catalan entity has been one of the main 'culprits' of several important movements that have carried to the team of Xavi Hernández to improve considerably in his performance after a rugged start of season, marked by the early elimination of the Champions.

In this opportunity, the president of the Olympique of Marseilles, Pablo Longoria, has valued the work of the Barcelona executive and sustains that it is the indicated for the functions that exerts at present in statements for 'EFE': "The club is in the best possible hands. Mateu Is a genius, is the most intelligent person of the European football. We are seeing the last results of the Barcelona and I gladden me a lot of by him because it deserves it to him".

In his opinion, a good management of Alemany depends a lot of the margin of manoeuvre that have in a sportive institution: "Any club in which Mateu can work like leader, and with the freedom to be able to make all what has in the head, goes to be in the highest. It is a genius in the management, in knowing read the small details, in taking important decisions".

Likewise, it has stood out part of his previous experience in other clubs, especially by his adaptation: "Mateu is a person that has had all the perspectives inside a club of football, even the one to be the owner of the Mallorca. I stand out especially the capacity that has to adapt to each one of the circumstances and in the direction and natural tendency that takes the football".

Surprised by the course of Messi

For Longoria was impactante the course of the ex Barcelona captain the past summer: "Whenever it goes a player that has participated during all his career in the same club, the moment of the separation is a news that surprises to all the world. All the fans to the football expected a career of Messi with an end in Barcelona or a symbolic end in Newell's by all what means and that never had the possibility to develop playing to the football in Rosario. With a player of the magnitude of Messi two years ago any had written this end of the history".