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 too would have doubts about coming to the membership.
Final week Raphinha admitted that with Barcelona then unable to register Dani Olmo and Pau Victor, if he had been to contemplate becoming a member of the membership on the time, he would have doubts about signing for them.
“The captain’s criticisms are usually not true. You led Raphinha astray, you tricked him. He stated that Barca was the very best membership I might be at. It’s one other factor in the event that they inform you issues from exterior with a false conclusion, which predicts the apocalypse. The membership appeared to be able that was not true. Victory on the sector 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 bought a part of what he stated.”
Later he would once more check with Raphinha’s phrases, claiming that he didn’t imply what he stated.
“The criticism from Raphinha just isn’t true. He by no means stated what was reported. You solely used a few of his phrases, and you already know that these weren’t the spirit of what he was saying.”
There’s additionally 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 need to communicate to the director of soccer [Deco] about Araujo, he is aware of the scenario of every of the gamers.”
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“We would like the gamers within the present squad to be very helpful and to proceed. Ronald has a sound contract and we would like him to proceed. For particulars that I’m unaware of, he has to talk to the sporting administration and we’ll discover a resolution. We respect him very a lot, particularly on a private degree. The direct relationship is superb. There’s room to succeed in a passable resolution.”
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. Nonetheless with little progress on a brand new contract, Araujo has understandably began to judge his choices.