2023-05-17 14:35:26
BarcelonaAccording to the newspaper Sport and ARA can confirm, Barça’s still director of football, Mateu Alemany, has reconsidered his decision to leave the club this June 30. Two weeks after the organization officially announced his departure for professional reasons, the Balearic executive has offered to continue in the Blaugrana offices and will park his adventure in the Premier League. “Mateu has shown his willingness to continue at Barça under the same conditions as the current ones and the president has given the go-ahead”, official sources explain to this newspaper.
The news represents a radical turn in the events of the last few days in the offices of the sports area of Barça. Alemany had an offer that provided him with more money and full powers at Aston Villa, who had been tempting him for months with a very ambitious project and with old acquaintances such as Unai Emery or Damià Vidagany, with whom he has a very personal relationship good. Finally, however, it has been more loved to backtrack. Once he has repaired the bridges with Joan Laporta, he will keep the salary he had before announcing his departure. In other words, a contract until 2024 that makes him the professional figure with the best conditions in the organization without counting the athletes. Remember that your salary counts in the calculation of the fair play financial It is not a recordable salary mass, but it does have an impact on the employers’ economic controls, in the same way as the professional, subsidiary, youth and women’s sections.
Nothing to do with Jordi or Deco
That Alemany continues at Barça has nothing to do with the departure of Jordi Cruyff, with whom he has maintained an excellent professional and personal rapport, nor with the more than likely arrival of Anderson Deco in the offices. The figure of the Mallorcan executive is not technical, but rather economic. He is the one who knows the salary margin rule, who acts as a bridge with the League and who negotiates the contracts with the players. The detection of talent and the suggestion of new signings falls more on Xavi Hernández, as well as Ramon Planes in the past, Cruyff during the last year and a half, and Deco, if he ends up arriving, in the near future. With this extended stay, Laporta and Barça maintain a top-level profile in a summer that will be key to continuing to improve the League champion squad.
Despite his more executive than sporting temperament, Alemany is the driver of some influential decisions on the pitch. In this sense, the summer of 2021 was very skeptical from the start with the renewal of Leo Messi with Barça and defended to the death the continuity of Ansu Fati, whom some voices suggested selling precisely to be able to generate enough salary margin for the Argentine’s new contract, who would end up reluctantly leaving for PSG. Months later, Mateu was one of the godfathers of the signing of Ferran Torres, whom he promoted during his time at Valencia, and he moved quickly to ensure the arrival of Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen on free transfers. With César Azpilicueta he did the same, but Laporta prioritized the registration of other footballers and the Chelsea captain chose to continue in London.
Looking ahead to this summer, Alemany has already closed the signing of Iñigo Martínez as a free agent, whom he was about to sign last July when the signing of Jules Kounde became complicated. He has also faced the renewal of Alejandro Balde, who will have a first team card, and he has in mind the operations he must carry out in order to regularize the contracts of Gavi, who is playing with a youth card, in the eyes of the League , and Ronald Araujo, who is competing under a commercial agreement that expires on June 30. The Balearic met a few weeks ago with the managers of the employers’ association to deal with these two priorities. The return of Messi, Laporta’s obsession, does not want to hear about it.
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