Another frontrunning presidential candidate has spoken in earnest about his project. Cuatro’s report allegedly claims that the former Barcelona chief Joan Laporta wants to do some serious, ambitious transfer business.
Former Blaugrana president Laporta had a successful tenure in his term as the chief at Camp Nou and has purposed to sell Philippe Coutinho and Antoine Griezmann to help facilitate the signing of sizzling hot Borussia Dortmund star forward, Erling Braut Haaland, who has been ramping up the headlines with his dazzling goal-scoring exploits that do not look anywhere near like slowing down in the near future.
Coutinho and Griezmann – Barca’s razzle-dazzle, big-money signings who failed to the goals galore expected of them at Camp Nou – have both shown incarnations of promise intermittently since the new season kicked off.
Griezmann’s form was beginning to rise like the phoenix stirring to life from the ashes before the Cadiz debacle, but it’s still too early to tell if he’s able to maintain that consistency. Coutinho too started the season really well with a resurgent new lease of life but his form has again nose-dived after the initial promising take-off.
In stunning contrast, Haaland exploded into the scene last year tearing up pitches with his stellar, riveting lightning runs at goal and scoring with impeccable precision and consistency, without any signs of slowing down. Flying the Dortmund banner, Haaland is already rapidly developing a reputation as one of the finest strikers in the world, making the 20-year-old a very alluring investment for any team.
One of the crucial main pieces of the Barcelona jigsaw puzzle is that the Norwegian wunderkind happens to be a client of super-agent Mino Raiola, and the other significan piece of the puzzle are the reports alleging that Laporta’s Galactico signing is the super-agent himself. In short, Raiola should be mindful, and very appreciative, that the former Blaugrana president helped him become what he is today, and should hence be willing to facilitate the signings of his many clients should Laporta another term as president again.
It is an ineradicable blot on their CVs that the two record signings have not paid off and the Covid-19’s damaging financial effect on Barca forces them to sell big before they can buy bigger, a harsh reality that Laporta is only too well aware of. Most importantly, his main strategy of bringing in the crucial key players with Messi as the pivotal center seems perfectly logical to most Camp Nou diehards. Lately more Culés are reported to have felt that his major rival Victor Font seems to have shot himself in the foot when he announced that ‘Neymar does not have a place at Camp Nou’.
Which makes absolute sense, according to the latest reports, that Laporta might just have the edge in the race.
Credit: Football Tribe Malaysia
