Joan Laporta He preferred not to lavish too much on the arrival of Xavi Hernandez until its official status. Pursued by a cloud of cameras and microphones in the town of Marin, half an hour from Vigo, the president of the FC Barcelona He was always on the phone while the busy schedule with the Galician fans allowed him to do so and a reception at the Marín City Council to sign in the honor book with the mayor Maria Ramallo as a hostess. During his participation at the end of the day in a colloquium organized by the Peña Barcelonista de Marin and others from the Galician territory, held at the restaurant The 3 Aguete Monkeys, the maximum Barça president was clear when stating that “the contract of Xavi is about to close and will be the coach of the Barça”.
However, the most newsworthy was the announcement, as reported by TV3, that the Barça will be in a position to do tthree signings in January. The reinforcements could already be spoken to Xavi and they would be done whenever players can be released to comply with LaLiga’s financial ‘fair play’.
Laporta landed yesterday in Vigo hours before the expedition of the first team commanded by Sergi Barjuan in which it will be the third and last game as interim coach before the arrival of Xavi. The president, who did not travel to Qatar despite the will of the leaders of the Al Sadd To finish closing the deal with him in person, he did not stop being in contact these days with Rafa Yuste and Mateu Alemany, sports vice president and director of football at Barça, respectively.
Laporta flew to Galicia together with the director of the Social Area, Josep Ignasi Macià, and the members of the Cabinet of the Presidency, Jordi Finestres and Enric Masip. During his speech, the president recalled emblematic Barça figures of Galician origin such as Luis Suarez, Quique Costas and Pepe Rodriguez without forgetting Nico Gonzalez, the new pearl of the Barcelona youth academy and son of the Deportivo myth, Fran Gonzalez. “We are here to show our affection and admiration because it is not easy to show Barcelona fans hundreds of kilometers from the Camp Nou,” he emphasized Laporta.
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