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Laporta fires back at Bartomeu, labels him 'desperate'

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 president Joan Laporta was asked to respond to Josep Bartomeu comments during 

's contract renewal at the club offices on Friday. 

Laporta's reply was direct: “I won’t distract myself by answering questions about a desperate person who’s now realizing the magnitude of the disaster he’s responsible for.”

Barca's finances were not as bad as Laporta made it seem

The ex-Barca president also stated he wouldn't have let 

Lionel Messi leave the club as Laporta did if he was still president

Laporta plans to rename Camp Nou to fund 2025 expansion

Speaking to RAC1, Joan Laporta has confirmed that Camp Nou will undergo redevelopment starting in 2022 and ending in 2025 or 2026.

The president plans to add around 10,000 seats to the stadium, a new roof and other amenities for fans and players.

 are planning to find a sponsorship deal to sell the stadium naming rights to find the project.

It means the stadium could be renamed something along the lines of 'Goldman Sachs Arena' (Goldman Sachs are the most likely investor in the reconstruction project) or 'Rakuten stadium' (Raketen are Barca's current main shirt sponsor).

Camp Nou will probably keep its current name in everyday speech but the club and the media could be obliged to refer to it by a sponsor's name.

Camp Nou to be closed for expansion in 2022 until 2025 or 2026, Barca plans revealed

 are planning to increase the capacity of Camp Nou from 99,354 to 110,000 spectators under the Espai Barca project, Joan Laporta said in an interview with RAC1.

It means the stadium will be closed for renovations in the future, most likely next summer. The redevelopment work will take three or four years.

During the construction work at Camp Nou, it is planned Barcelona will play at the Johan Cruyff stadium.

The Johan Cruyff stadium is currently used by Barcelona's B and female teams. 

The stadium will be expanded to 40,000–50,000 fans to accommodate first-team games.

It has a capacity of just 6,000 fans so expanding it to 50,000 looks like a bigger job than the Camp Nou work.

Laporta didn't specify if the planned expansion of the Johan Cruyff stadium will be temporary or permanent but it's difficult to imagine Barca B playing at a huge stadium with a few thousand fans in attendance.

Note that Laporta needs to get the club members' approval for his financial plans for the construction work before it gets started.

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to be frank, we all thought he could be close to iniesta, until valverde had other opinion by playing him on the flanks, that ruined the poor guy

Bullion Van

Too right however , we  were foolish to  be robbed by Liverpool

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Bullion Van, iniesta is CM in his entire career sometimes played as LW, he doesn't need free role to excel his talent
klopp given lot of freedom on the pitch to get the best out of coutinho
he played his best version when he played as an AM that did not exist in Barcelona
valvarde given enough opportunity to coutinho even as CM sometimes but he needed to play that AM position that's why he given some good performances in bayern shirt because they mostly used him as muller's backup

Abusalihu Alfar

GoalBeat, we should have signed replacements or busi,pique and suarez at that time and this guy signed an AM and an SS(griez) for whatever reasons I busi and pique got replacements they would have left at the moment

GoalBeat, man griez played LW when he played for real socieded simeone and didier using him as SS after that he started to flourish.he rarely played LW for the last few seasons
next Enrique wouldn't have signed coutinho in first place we wanted a CM but we signed an AM those are different positions also no way coutinho cost 160 million these are comical signings in my view
some players plays really good with some coaches klopp had the magic to unlock coutinho's potential
both griezmann and coutinho and failed transfers and because we should have signed more replacements. maybe watch koeman's first ew games coutinho shined but messi became limited because messi always played with free role and messi struggled at the start of the season after the injury of coutinho everything came back to normal
coutinho could work as AM at 4-2-3-1 but we busi and deong can't play as double pivots 
also those 2 transfers had a lot more wages that's ridiculous because they don't deserve those

thank you, people should  learn how to say the truth when things  go south

Offset Dollarbills

lol, funny how you analyse  football klopp did not get the best out of Coutinho  he was already world class before klopp became liverpool manager.    secondly  when you  talk of price don't  forget Neymar and Mbappe did not worth the price paid for them PSG spoiled  the market that is not Bartomeu  faults  he need to compete with  big teams and match them. if Mbappe and Neymar did not performed  everyone  will insult psg but today there price tag is justify why is Bartomeu  own not?   and finally  we go after coutinho because  we needed a attacking midfielder  to cover iniester position just like we did with Rakitic and Xavi. Dembele was sign to cover for Neymar but because  of his injuries  coutinho have to be shifted  there which affected  his game.  Roberto Fernadez then barca sporting  director  once said coutinho was iniester replacement not Neymar. if you could  remember  Neymar was even talking to coutinho to join him at barca before he left.      Bartomeu  did alot of bad things  but everything is his fault  we're all humans  we should  not blame him for everything.. Now pedri and De jong are priced  asset nobody hail him for those signings...

Bartomeu: “With Iniesta’s retirement, we acquired his replacement Coutinho, the best player in England. I don’t know why it did not work.”

he said this in an interview, they didn't even know what's coutinho primary position, he just bought him because of his name 

Ali HMB.

Let Leo and Griezimann pushed out and bring lazy players like De luuk. Who is a big lair president in the Barca’s history.

Player		G
Artem Dovbyk	Girona	18
Jude Bellingham	Real Madrid	17
Ante Budimir	Osasuna	16
Borja Borja Mayoral	Getafe	15
Alexander Sørloth	Villarreal	15

Laporta fires back at Bartomeu, labels him 'desperate'

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