Junjust Laportapresident of Barcelonaassured this Saturday that “there has been no type of negotiation” with the forward of the Borussia Dortmund Erling Haalandwhen asked if there had been a meeting this week between Xavi Hernandez, coach of the Barça team, and the attacker.
“At Barcelona we don’t negotiate with the player. When we have to negotiate we will do it with Borussia Dortmund, if the circumstance arises,” the manager explained in statements to various media broadcast by the radio stations ‘Cope’ and ‘Ser’.
First he denied the meeting between Xavi and Haalandalthough when he was asked again about this matter, he said: “It is none of my business. I am referring to the negotiations. There has been no type of negotiation with Haaland.”
“If we negotiate, we would negotiate with the Borussia Dortmund. We are working on many players who can improve the squad next season according to what the coach, the coaching staff and the director of football say, but we do not negotiate with players. There has been no type of negotiation with Haaland”, he insisted after an act with the Barcelona supporters clubs in Orihuela, on the eve of facing Elche.
