“Even though we’re in a economic recovery phase and that we are going to give (…) the best results in history” in terms of “income and profits, under the financial fair play regulations in LaLiga we could not sign“, assured laporta to the media in Bogotá, as part of a visit to the Barcelona Foundation in Colombia.
Faced with the impossibility of reinforcing the workforce “we We continue to trust and be proud of our coach, Xavi Hernández“, who “perfectly understands the moment our institution is experiencing”, added the Catalan leader.
The transfer window of the highest category of Spanish football will be open from the 1st to the 31st of January 2023.
In 2021, Barcelona suffered a serious economic crisis encouraged by the high salaries of some of his players that led him to violate the “financial fair play” rule, which establishes ceilings on club expenses.
Blocked by these difficulties, the Blaugrana team was forced to let go of his star Lionel Messi to Paris Saint-Germain at the beginning of last season.
“I also feel responsible for this [de la salida de Messi]that institutionally we did not solve it well ”, lamented Laporta, who blames his predecessor, Josep Maria Bartomeu, for the crisis.
The president announced that together with other teams he is taking steps to “agree with LaLiga” to “make the restriction more flexible.”
On Sunday and Monday, Laporta visited various social projects that Barcelona is developing in Arauca, a department on the border with Venezuela, together with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the NGO Save The Children.
There he met children and young footballers who benefit from the Barcelona Foundation, several of them displaced persons fleeing the violence in that region.
On both sides of the border line, the civilian population is plagued by dissidents from the peace agreement that disarmed the Colombian guerrilla FARC in 2016 and fighters from the ELN, the last recognized rebel group in the country.
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