Laporta: “I gave Messi’s father the draft contract; I waited a week, two, a month…”
This Tuesday, Joan Laporta's book "How we saved Barça" went on sale, in which he explains what these five years in the presidency have been like. The now pre-candidate talks about how he had to face a chaotic economic situation that required imaginative formulas to straighten it out. MARCA has had access to this book from editorial sources and explains the main points of the book.Messi's departureWhen it came to negotiating the renewal, Laporta said Messi had a "demanding" team around him, although his father was more understanding. "We came up with a crazy solution: a long-term contract with a first stage as a Barca player and a second on loan to an MLS team," he said. "But LaLiga told us to forget it, that we had to sign an agreement to sell a percentage of the television rights for […]
