Posted on November 4, 2021 at 9:30 am by AC
In Qatar we do not seem to appreciate the attitude of Joan Laporta, who wants to do everything possible to bring Xavi back to FC Barcelona.
After speculation, FC Barcelona is taken action. This Wednesday, a delegation from the Catalan club flew to Qatar, to meet the leaders of Al Sadd and especially Xavi, the big favorite for the post of 'coach. Rafa Yuste and Mateu Alemany, respectively vice-president and executive director of Barça, thus attended a match of the Qatari championship and opened the negotiations… but no traces of Joan Laporta! The president indeed remained in Barcelona and Cadena SER pointed out that this would not really go through with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani .
Au Qatar, we do not understand the absence of Laporta
This Thursday, Mundo Deportivo confirms this trend, explaining that the absence of Joan Laporta would have been very badly received by the leaders by Al Sadd . According to the daily information, in Qatar one would estimate that the least of things would have been to discuss from president to president for Xavi and not to mandate an “administrative delegation”, as qualified the director general Turki Al -Ali in a recent press release. That's not all, since Mundo also explains that Laporta 's various statements against Qatar in recent months would not help the situation …