Joan Laporta: “I don’t envy Madrid with Mbappé

Joan Laporta: “I don’t envy Madrid with Mbappé, it will distort their dressing room.”
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“There they have a problem. They have to sell a player, right? Because they are not both going to play in the same place and they are also very special players. Speaking of the numbers there will be, this distorts the locker room for sure.”

“The shirt issue? It’s up in the air. There’s Nike and there are Nike’s competitors who are also interested. It’s the market and the market is telling us that Barça is worth more than what we have in the contract with Nike.”

“If the easiest thing is to continue with Nike? Sometimes the easy thing is not the best. And now what we want is the best for Barça. Then there is the third way, which is to do it ourselves. And all three ways are open. It is a very important decision.”

“It’s been 27 years with Nike, we are having meetings, they have made an effort that I am very grateful for but it is not enough and we are going to decide what is best for Barça. Right now all the options are on the table.”

“When will we know what will happen to the shirts? When the time is right, when we think it is the right time. In fact, decisions have already been made in this regard.”

“If there could be a problem in the production of the shirts? No problem, it is a business that we already know. We know where all the shirts are manufactured and at the prices they go for.”

“And also the delivery times, and the cost they have, and the financing that Working Capital represents, which says about co-production of the shirts, we have everything very much under control.”

“The differences with Nike are many and we are at a moment in our history when we are overcoming a very complicated situation. Now that we are in the process of economic recovery, what we cannot do is go down… Barça must have the best contract on the market.”

“The contract we currently have is not the best on the market and Barça is the club that sells the most shirts in the world.