A FORMER Barcelona director has accused the club of “promoting smoke” by telling followers they’re able to signal four high gamers.
Toni Freixa hit out at his outdated club on social media by warning star-struck supporters to not count on anybody by the Nou Camp door this summer time.
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That’s as a result of Barcelona are broke and their finances are fried.
President Joan Laporta stated this month that he plans on bringing some massive names to Catalonia – regardless of Barca’s reported £1BILLION debt.
Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva, Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, Leeds’ Raphinha and Sevilla’s Jules Kounde are all targets for boss Xavi Hernandez.
And Laporta revealed Barca members had voted in favour of a money injection by promoting off half of their merchandising arm – in addition to some TV rights.
But Freixa believes Laporta is all speak and no motion by telling followers that Xavi is not going to be touchdown any of his most popular targets.
He tweeted: “You know that Lewandowski, or Kounde, or Raphinha, or Bernardo Silva is not going to come? You know, proper?”
Freixa was then invited to Cadena COPE’S El Partidazo to make clear his feedback.
But he merely doubled down on his offended tweet.
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Freixa defined: “I don’t purchase the speak of Barcelona’s signings. They are blatantly promoting smoke.
“What they are saying clashes with actuality and I’ve no selection however to warn those that this isn’t going to occur.
“One might are available case a participant is offered. It sells far more to say that Bernardo Silva is coming. If we wish to promote the bike, let’s promote it, I do not purchase it.
“I’m going a bit in opposition to the tide, what’s handy now at Barcelona is to generate an phantasm.”
Freixa’s feedback got here after Laporta admitted Barcelona want money shortly to compete subsequent season.
He stated: “Barcelona is a Formula One automotive with no gasoline and a seized-up engine.
“We want to do that as a result of we’ve got been making losses for years, we’ve got inherited a really troublesome state of affairs.
“I don’t wish to maintain wanting again. It’s vital to make a revenue as a result of if we proceed to make losses our opponents see us as weak.
“And not solely them however folks with energy in regulatory our bodies systematically and obsessively put obstacles in our method.”
But former agent Jose Maria Minguella, who labored on quite a few massive Barcelona offers, has warned the club they have to be extra prudent with future signings.
He stated: “I warned about the horrendous sporting administration we’ve got suffered when the club threw money at Philippe Coutinho, Ousmane Dembele and Antoine Griezmann.
“I wish to warn now that the signings are key. Not everybody can signal gamers.
“From signing effectively or badly you both succeed or go bankrupt. You don’t have to be intelligent to signal Lewandowski now however you do to signal him when he’s solely 22.”