Ramón Planes explains some hidden details about the departure of Messi from Barça

2023-04-17 08:58:02

Ramon Planes He was one of the great architects of signing Pedriamong other things, during his time at the FC Barcelona. Although, without a doubt, he also lived Messi’s goodbye in the first person. “That marriage with the club should never have been broken. It would be nice if they resumed that relationship. The press conference after the burofax was my turn. It was not a brown, I faced that situation. What happened next was harder. We all thought that he was going to renew… ”, he said on Cadena Ser.

“Abidal, Segura and those people believed in me for operations like those of Pedri, Abde, the latter I called Mateu Alemany and told him that it had to be signed. ‘Trust me’, I asked. These people have merit. I have been wrong with many players, I say that too. You have to believe in the player. One part is the signing and another is to bet for real. That was the key with Pedri. Pepe Mel was the coach of Las Palmas and he picked up the phone to call Real Madrid and say that there was an unusual player. That same information is received by us. “We have to sign it now,” we said. “If the season starts, the whole world will see it.” I risked a lot with Pedri, we signed him without having made his debut. I’m not surprised by the quality of it. It is true that all of them later (Pedri, Araújo) have to be seen with the passage of the Barça shirt, you don’t know that until they put it on. That maturity that he showed in a 17-year-old pandemic Classic… There was Pedri and Ansu in eleven. I remember that I went down to Koeman’s locker room and he told me: ‘I’m not going to remove him anymore, he’s not going to come out of the eleven, Ramón is very good,’ “Planes said.

Regarding his future, Planes also spoke about Betis: “It is the public option. It is a good club, serious, with a good project. I see it with very good eyes…”. He also talked about Pochettino: “The trajectory that has been forged is incredible. Last year at PSG they won Ligue 1 and doing well in the Champions League. He is very qualified to train Real Madrid ”.