Laporta: I cant wait for the season to start
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, is excited about next season, not just because of the football, but the basketball too. He thinks the team has high quality and talented players.
There is still another month to go before work starts again, with the new Josep Guardiola project
raising the expectations of president Joan Laporta who has said “I am very excited and in a
positive mood and I just can’t wait for the season to begin”. Laporta was speaking at
the official presentation of Xavi Pascual as the coach of the Barça basketball team.
Major signings
With Josep Guardiola the new manager and the signings of Keita, Piqué
and Martín Cáceres confirmed, Joan Laporta thinks the plans for the first team are going great. He
said “things are working out as we expected. The signings are reinforcements of the
configuration of the squad”.
Team building
Laporta drew parallels with the summer of 2004, “when we bought players that gave good
results”. Like then “we are building a team … when we build a team we get
results”.
Messi, a football reference
Asked about the chance of Cristiano Ronaldo going to Real Madrid, the
president said he also believes his Barça has some talented players: “We have lots. Messi,
Iniesta, Xavi, Henry ... they are players at the highest media level and al top class players
… and we have a player who is global reference, Messi”.