Barcelona President Joan Laporta has accused the media of tricking captain Raphinha into making his feedback concerning the membership, by portray an image that was not true. The Brazilian famous publicly final week that because of the membership’s funds, he would even have doubts about coming to the membership.
Last week Raphinha admitted that with Barcelona then unable to register Dani Olmo and Pau Victor, if he had been to think about becoming a member of the membership on the time, he would have doubts about signing for them.
“The captain’s criticisms will not be true. You led Raphinha astray, you tricked him. He mentioned that Barca was the very best membership I could possibly be at. It’s one other factor in the event that they inform you issues from outdoors with a false conclusion, which predicts the apocalypse. The membership gave the impression to be able that was not true. Victory on the sphere and within the places of work has not served to make us lose.”
“Raphinha was dejected. “He needed to reward the greatness of Barca and also you solely received a part of what he mentioned.”
Later he would once more confer with Raphinha’s phrases, claiming that he did not imply what he mentioned.
“The criticism from Raphinha isn’t true. He by no means mentioned what was reported. “You solely used a few of his phrases, and that these weren’t the spirit of what he was saying.”
There can also be loads of hypothesis about the way forward for one other of Barcelona’s captains, Ronald Araujo. Juventus and Arsenal are reportedly eager on signing the Uruguayan, and he is because of meet with Deco this week to debate his future.
“You have to talk to the director of soccer (Deco) about Araujo, he is aware of the state of affairs of every of the gamers.”
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“We need the gamers within the present squad to be very helpful and to proceed. Ronald has a legitimate contract and we wish him to proceed. For particulars that I’m unaware of, he has to talk to the sporting administration and we’ll discover a answer. We recognize him very a lot, particularly on a private stage. The direct relationship is superb. “There is room to achieve a passable answer.”
Araujo has a contract till 2026, and the road from Barcelona has been that they are not looking for any gamers to start out subsequent season out of contract by that date. However with little progress on a brand new contract, Araujo has understandably began to guage his choices.