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The strategy of Laporta so that Messi remain in the Barça
Published:17/02/2021 - 19:12h
Updated:19/02/2021 - 10:32h
For Laporta, there will be problems so that Messi continue in the Barça. In front of the publication on his agreement, signalled that the income that the club perceives with Messi are very upper to the costs
The process to choose to the new managerial board of the FC Barcelona will take place in few weeks and, in addition to the finances of the institution, the continuity of Lionel Messi is one of the present subjects in the diaries of each one of the postulates. In the case of Joan Laporta, already there is a clear-cut plan.
Recently, the candidate has offered statements to Sky Sports and has ensured: "I will do all po possible so that Messi remain " in the Barça, as long as it result elect for the presidency the next 7 March, in which it splits like one of the favourites. This while they are not postergadas again.
After the hard hit that supposed the fall in the Camp Nou in front of the PSG, the rumours on the exit of Messi went back to sound with strength. However, Laporta sustains that it needs more than money to convince it to remain in the Barça: "Messi has to be valued with the affection that deserves and with an economic offer to the height, but does not do it by money: you need a winning sportive proposal, Leo wants to go back to win with the Barcelona".
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Clubs like the Manchester City or the PSG keep his interest for doing with the services of the Argentinian for the next season, and can see the even more easy business if they do not have to pay at all by his traspaso when it expire his agreement in June. For Laporta, there are not worries: "I know It well, have a good personal relation with him... It is not somebody that was here by money".
On the controversial publication of the newspaper The World on the agreement of Messi, warned that economically his presence in the Barça does not suppose significant losses: "The cost of Messi round 8% of the total, but generates 30% of the income". In consequence, the profitability of the player is enormous, and is a lot of elder the profit that reports for the club that the costs.
It added that, in spite of everything, exists a big history of love between Lionel Messi and the FC Barcelona: "it Is one of the most beautiful of the history of the football. It does not have price ask to a boy or a girl: Who is the best player of the world? And listen the answer of Messi is his immediate reaction".
