Bartomeu: "Luis Enrique is the most important signing of the year"

The president of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, has explained in the XXXV World-wide Congress of Crags of the Football Club Barcelona that the most important contracting of this season is in the bench. "Luis Enrique is the most important signing of the year. It contributes passion, leadership and sacrifice. We expect a lot of him", it has stood out. Bartomeu has recognised to have learnt of all the lived the past year and has remembered that it has fulfilled the promise to carry out a deep renewal of the team. "At the end of the past season purchased the public commitment to undertake a deep transformation of the Club. Today we can say that we have fulfilled with the planned plans. The economic effort allows us new illusions", has ensured.

Also it has elogiado to the Uruguayan Luis Suárez, the signing crashes for this season: "it Has come with a lot of illusion, had the dream to play here from small", has said. Bartomeu also has wanted to appreciate his work to all those that no longer are in the Club and has remembered that some of the best footballers of the planet, as Messi, Neymar, Xavi or Iniesta, follow forming part of the Barça.

The president has had a memory for the died Tito Vilanova and for Gerardo 'Tata' Martino, the two last trainers of the Barcelona group, but without leaving to look to the future, that to his understand goes through the "Espai Barça", approved by the partners in referendum in the month of April, and that it will be "the best sportive complex of the world in the centre of a big city like Barcelona". Bartomeu also has advanced that "will be finish in 2021".

Finally, and in spite of the big effort made in the signings of this summer, Bartomeu has stood out that the economic field goes by good way: record income in the history of the Club (530 million euros), profits of 41 millions and a net debt reduced in 44 millions during the last course. "We reduce the debt year to year, and this allows us think in the future. This year we have had record of income, with 530 millions, and of profits, with 41", has concluded.