Barcelona club president Josep Maria Bartomeu broke his silence, and on Saturday he spoke about a number of thorny files within the Catalan club.
In televised statements carried by the Spanish newspaper AS, Bartomeu said that he is determined to complete his term in the presidency of Barcelona. He also said that he will not resign despite the success of a number of opponents in gathering the required number of signatures of members of the General Assembly in order to put forward a resolution to withdraw confidence from him on Vote.
"No member of the board of directors has told me anything, we continue to work at the club, and we are doing what we have to do about the recall campaign. We will do everything step by step, no one wants to resign at the moment, the club does not stop and we have a lot of work to do," Bartomeu said. With him, we want to continue the work and hope to achieve the desired result. "
The Barcelona president returned to the crisis of the first star of the team, Lionel Messi, who demanded to leave before he backed down and decided to return to the team's training, and said, "I will not enter into any conflict with Messi, Messi is our captain, his crisis has ended and everyone has made what he should have done. Neither I, nor any of the members of the board of directors or the coaching staff, can allow the best player in the world to leave. The team needs him. We want Messi to retire from the club.
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Bartomeu refused to comment on Messi's accusations, who confirmed that he had been deceived by the Barcelona president, who retracted promises made to let him leave at the end of last season, and said the first official of the Catalan club, "I will not enter into any conflict with our captain, we have to talk about these matters in our house." And secretly, we now have to congratulate ourselves constantly, Messi with us, for that is the most important.
Barcelona won the friendly Juan Gamper Cup today, after defeating its home side, Elche, with a single goal scored by Frenchman Antoine Griezmann.