Laporta: "Barça enters the same as the eighth in the Premier due to lack of ambition in LaLiga"

"If the resolution is favourable, the Super League can be a reality in 2025"

"I would like Messi to have a different ending to the one he had"

BARCELONA, 5 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, assured that the Blaugrana club charges the same for television rights as the eighth-placed team in the English Premier League, something that he blames on the "lack of ambition" of LaLiga chaired by Javier Tebas, and on the other hand He assured that he would have liked a "different fianl" for Leo Messi at the Camp Nou.

"The personal relationship with Tebas is good, but they would have to worry more about recovering the million and a half subscribers that football television has lost, and they would have to worry less about disqualifying clubs like Barça," Laporta said in a interview in the program 'Què t'hi jugues!' of the SER chain.

In this sense, he regretted that Barça entered for television rights the same as the eighth in the Premier League. "We believe that it is due to a lack of ambition on the part of LaLiga and this is where the League should be tightening, for that reason and to try to correct the drop in television subscribers to football," he assessed.

Laporta also criticized how the league has been modifying the regulations. "The league has acted as legislator, judge and executor. It confuses the 3 powers, and this cannot be. They have contradicted with circulars Barça's interpretation of the financial 'Fair Play' of the League, and from here they have modified the statutes," he lamented.

In sports, as he has already been ensuring, he reiterated that the priority must be to win, precisely, LaLiga. Above the Copa del Rey, Super Cup and Europa League. "The priority is LaLiga, we are very focused on winning it because we believe that it is what the Catalans will like the most. I don't want us to fall into the obsession, but we are especially focused on winning it," he assured.

Regarding the three-game ban on Robert Lewandowski confirmed by the TAD, he assured that they abide by it but that it is unfair. "We abide by the firm sanction. The sanction to Lewandowski seems exaggerated to me. It falls within the logic as is the regulation, but one game could have been enough", he valued.

On the other hand, he recognized that the renewals of Gavi and Araújo will not be effective at the moment, as the salary limit is full. Of course, he declared the Dutchman Frenkie De Jong and the Frenchman Ousmane Dembélé "non-transferable", as well as the youth squad Ansu Fati. "Xavi loves them all," he stated.

A special case is that of captain Sergio Busquets, whose contract ends in the summer. "He has proposals to continue out of the league, in the United States. If everything goes well, which is what we all want, he will continue until the end of the season and we will talk in the summer," he argued.

As for the Super League, the new competition that FC Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Juventus intend to create - they were more initially - believes that if the ruling of the European justice is favorable to its creation, it could be a reality in 2025." I would not accept entering this project if it had not been an open competition. Madrid, Juve and other clubs that still do not want to come to light accepted it. The only thing we want to change is the governance model and that it belongs to the clubs , but that the UEFA is in the table like an agent more", contributed.

"If the resolution is favorable, the Super League can be a reality in 2025. If it is not favorable, it will depend on how the resolution is that we will decide what the steps to follow will be. The degree of victory will define the degree of what can be done with the Super League "He added in this regard.

According to Laporta, this Super League would be a European competition that would compete in income and media power with the Premier League. "We want the English clubs to enter, but we believe that in a first step they will not do it. I am a firm defender of the state leagues but, and it is a personal opinion, I think that in a second phase there will end up being a merger between the European Super League and the Premier", predicted.

Asked by the PSG player Leo Messi, he assured that he would have liked it to have had a different ending at Barça. "I prefer not to talk about Messi because he is from PSG, and you have to respect him because then there are missiles that come from everywhere. Messi will always be part of the shield, and I would like him to have a different ending to the one he had", he was honest. "I have a relationship with Messi," he added.