Barcelona president, Joan Laporta has come out to say that Lionel Messi’s chapter at the club is not over. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he considers it his responsibility to ensure the forward has a more beautiful ending at the Camp Nou in the nearest future, and he intends to make it happen.
Laporta added that Messi was everything for Barcelona and he is possibly the club’s greatest player ever.
His words, “Messi was everything,”
“To Barca, he’s been possibly its greatest player, the most efficient. To me he’s only comparable to Johan Cruyff. But it had to happen one day. We had to make a decision as a consequence of what we inherited. The institution is in charge of players, coaches.”
“At the moment, we have a positive net worth. In about a month, we have earned close to €650m,”
“We’ve had to move fast. The TV rights were sold, 25% of them, and that has added important revenue. The club is on path to being sound; financially the club is better with the money that’s come in, and we’ve been able to pay back €100m of the credit we had through Goldman Sachs.”
“What’s more, it needs to be said, the club is back to being sound economically, but we have to work harder to increase our earnings, not from selling shares but not by profiting through them.”
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