Barcelona experienced a day of strong emotions this Tuesday. The culé club virtually won its 27th competition, but at the same time a real earthquake occurred in the offices of the entity. While Jordi Alba rocked the Camp Nou, Mateu Alemany blew up the noble floor with a sudden farewell. The director of football will retire at the end of the season to head for Aston Villa in the Premier League. . Mateu Alemany has handed over to the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, the intention to take a new path, but guarantees that he will complete the entire summer market with the entity. It has promised to close all operations of the first team, even if some are done at the last minute of the market,” said the statement with which Barcelona made public the farewell of Mateu Alemany at the end of the season. ends a key piece in the team’s restructuring in the new era of Joan Laporta, the still Director of Football who has been key to the arrival of players like Lewandowski, Raphinha, Kessié or Christensen and leaves an earthquake at the Culé club to be resolved in the coming months. So much so that Jordi Cruyff could be the next step aside. The club’s current sports director ends his contract in June and it is not clear whether he will renew. Together with Xavi Hernández and Mateu Alemany, he had formed a society that was completely understood and in which agreements were made about the possible arrival and departure of players that the Tarrasa coach had not counted on. The departure of Alemany, presumably to Aston Villa, will end that bond and could lead Jordi Cruyff to opt for a decision that has been ripening for months, namely to say goodbye to Barcelona at the end of this season. The ball would now be in the court of Joan Laporta, who will have to decide whether to give Cruyff more responsibility or opt for a revolution with the signing of a new director of football. The reasons for the farewell There are several reasons behind Mateu Alemany’s decision. The former Real Mallorca president and Valencia manager has received a staggering offer from Aston Villa, a club that has been bidding hard since Wesley Edens and Nassef Sawiris, natural gas and telecommunications magnates respectively, became president. This proposal has increased the uncertainty that Alemany already had in the culé project. He believes that Laporta intervenes too much in the sporting field and believes that these decisions could affect an economic situation that is still delicate. He believes that the room for maneuver is too limited and that mistakes such as being late to court to register Gavi or the constant leaks to the press have not helped either. Related News Standard analysis No Barça is blood, sweat and the competition Daniel Panero’s men Xavi are already the team with the most victories in the history of the championship The departure of Mateu Alemany this summer should not stop the work of the culé club has in the offices in the coming months. The most delicate issue is the possible arrival of Leo Messi, an issue for which progress is being made with the League, but which still depends on a salary margin that remains very narrow. Barça are also working on the continuity of Sergio Busquets, who already announced on Tuesday “that he will make a decision in the coming days” and also on the future of Ansu Fati, for whom his own father assured after the match against Osasuna that “he will remain “. All these fronts are still on the agenda of a Mateu Alemany who will retire in June, but for that he will have to work an intensive day to solve a real puzzle.
Source: La Verdad
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