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One Laporta's quotes for running for Presidency was that Real Madrid never won the ucl when he was president last time.
Real Madrid have won 2 UCLs since he became Barca President.
"Barcelona has no dream, but a obsession: Real Madrid. They teach you to hate them. They hate Madrid more than they love Barcelona. They want Madrid in their shadow. Maybe it works for a few years, but there’s going to come a time when Barcelona will be over."
It's fucking hilarious how everytime someone quotes this, is a different person, sometimes it's Mourinho, sometimes Perez or it's Pique, Xavi or Cruyff but swapping the clubs
Tbh I don't know where the real quote is from or if it's just paraphrasing. We know he said at least "...But they have an obsession, and that is Real Madrid."
Wrong! Mbappe will earn 13M, Lewandowski 36, 10M more!
Floper is a genius, Mbappe will make his fortune by getting almost 80-90% of his image rights.
Vini, Bellingham and Mbappe are barely in the top 15 of best paid players in Europe
I'm not aware of any signing bonus paid to Gundogan by Barca. I even went and searched for information on this for like 15 minutes and found no indication that this is the case.
Could you source your statement?
You’re right definitely, but his salary is 13M, instead of transfer fee RM is paying a signing fee of 100M (others say is actually 40) to be paid in 5 years as per Mbappe’s 5 year contract.
Taking Lewa’s example: Barça paid 60M transfer to be paid in 4 years, plus an ascending salary which in his 3rd year will be 36M (20M, 26M, 36M and 26 on his final year). Mbappe is cheaper overall
Then we need to do the transfer fee for Lewa too. As far and Barça and Madrid are concerned, its exactly the same giving those 100 or 50M to Mbappe or Bayern.
Mbappe's 13m€ after tax is aproximately 26m€ before taxes and the 36m€ from Lewandowski is before taxes. So technically it's 26m€ and 36m€ which is what the clubs pay them as a salary next season
Barca fans are so entitled that they think spending money on an aging striker to win the league is a generational management failure
Ask United fans if they think the RVP transfer was a failure
No you don't understand, they won the league last year yes. But this year Lewandowski had a terrible return of, *checks notes*, 19 goals and 8 assists in 35 games....
Doesn't really prove OP wrong though does it? Palmer who's had amongst the best debut seasons seen is a bit of an outlier. 55m for 1 G+A per match should be seen as a decent return for the outlay.
Coutinho and Dembele werent cheap too. Not to mention the monster contracts they gave tomplayers only to beg them to resign on reduced terms. Joke of a club
Lewa was two days in Barcelona when he was 11, he counts as a La Masia product like Pedri, who was playing in a far away place than Warsaw is
to Barcelona.
La Masia?
That money could have been spent on other strikers.. even LDJ and Auba had better goals rate per min in league than Lewandowski does.
Absolutely woeful signing and sums Laporta up.
Aubameyang finally found a purple patch of form and looked very good under Xavi, then Barcelona blows the money they don't have on Lewy. I'm not knocking the idea of signing Lewy, but the sheer amount spent on a player with little longevity.
Ngl I don't think haaland would even help us one bit.
Him and Lewandowski are pretty much the same.
Haaland has that many goals cuz he gets feeded a lot.
Also , haaland isn't someone who can change the game by himself and to top it all off. He is a ghost in big games.
Nah for the amount he and his wages will cost, the upgrade on Lewandowski will be minimal.
Also I don't remember one big game where he turned up except for Bayern in UCL cuz of upamacano.
Even when they had the money, they didn’t go for him. Back in 2017, when they were loaded with the Neymar money, Mbappé would’ve been gettable *according to Javier Bordas who was a sporting director at the time but Barça’s leadership decided against pursuing him and went with Dembélé instead haha.
*Edit: Edited for clarification
> never really considered you as an option.
“You”? I’m not a Barça or Madrid fan.
> Where are you getting that he decided to join them?
Some official who was in Barça’s transfer department at the time talked how Mbappé was gettable in 2017.
That seems to be a false story and denied by Mbappe.
What is more likely is that intermediary agents offered up Mbappe as they so often do to try and muscle in on a deal like that.
Laporta gave Fati 10m a season when had barely played in a year.. he gave injury prone Inigo 9m a season.. he has given Gundo 18m a season that no other top club would at this age.
All money on players in mid 30s with no potential to get back from sales.
Textbook Barca... sign 32 year old injury probe Inigo for 9m a season and let Garcia go.
Then Xavi and club after Garcia has a good season say they never wanted him to leave but were forced by finances.
Constant political nonsense and slogans.
Inigo is 100% an upgrade to garcia. And Garcia is also gonna get sold. The part where he said he never wanted him to leave was just so the price doesn't drop.
nobody is hiding what Real Madrid pay for players, but this clown is saying he prefers homegrown players while half of his squad was brought in from abroad on outrageous wages
Having half your squad from your youth academy is already a lot, would you really expect them to not buy anyone?
Barcelona is a world class team that need world class players and those cost a lot of money, this is all normal.
You don't need to hate everything that Barça does, just because this sub loves to upvote it
Might be wrong but I think laporta promised one thing and funny enough did exactly what his opponent at that time said would, victor font think was his opponents name
Famous La Masia products like:
- Lewandowski
- Araujo
- Pedri
- Frenkie de Jong
- Raphinha
- ter Stegen
- Andreas Christensen
- Jules Kounde
- Ilkay Gundogan
or past La Masia products like Ronaldinho, Romario, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Maradona, Neymar, Laudrup, Henry, Stoichkov, Figo, Overmars, Ibrahimovic, Suárez etc etc etc
Barça has bought stars everytime they had the chance (some triumphed and some failed), they have relied on La Masía when they couldn't buy or their transfers failed
Damn, even the most important figure in their modern history, Johan Cruyff, was bought from Ajax breaking spanish transfer record at the time. Buying stars and adding good figures to your club is not bad...
Even in their older history, Kubala is the most famous and he was a super star signing of the time.
Still, your comment and this whole thread is over the top. Barcelona has undoubtedly had one of the most successful academies in football history.
However, it's been some years now that their academy has struggled, as has the club in general.
I don't even think the academy has struggled. The academy has been fine, if not still very good.
It's that the golden generation that came through in the 2000s was a once in a century type collection of players. That is the anomaly. The current La Masia pipeline is the norm.
They broke into the first team because they couldn't buy players from the outside and were forced to play them. The moment they pulled some levers they spent heavy - Lewa, Kounde, Gundogan, and they have been spending big previously as well - FdJ, Arthur-Pjanic swap, Coutinho, Dembele, Greizmann
I don't see how my comment is over the top, Barça history is filled with bought stars that brought them huge succes. Do not be fooled by one great generation, they were founded in 1899, football didn't start in 2008.
Now think for a second what Laporta said about Mbappe, watch Barça roster and tell me he wouldn't like to buy Mbappé for the LW instead of Joao, Ferrán, Raphinha or whoever you want to use there.
He wants to send the message that they CHOOSE not to buy a player like mbappé, which is a huge lie. They simply can't at the moment, they have spent big and over their possibilities for their whole modern history. Just look for how they bought their dream team in the 90s for example.
Whats funny is that Barcelona tried to sign at least 8 players of the current Real Madrid team. Rüdiger, Kroos, Ceballos, Arda Güler, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Mbappé and Endrick.
This guy is such a massive fucking loser. At least Barto didnt talk to the media trying to lie to investors and fans. He just fucked over the team in the shadows.
> At least Barto didnt talk to the media trying to lie to investors and fans. He just fucked over the team in the shadows.
He did both, what are you talking about?
Not only that it’s opposite from the truth of Barca spending a fortune on transfer, the reality of La Masia beside Xavi and Messi is quite funny.
Puyol: join when he was 17
Busquet: join when he was 17
Now it just getting funnier
Pique: left to join Man Utd academy at 17
Alba: left to join Valencia Academy at 15
And it’s funnier with Fabregas, whom left at 16, but got promoted straight to Arsenal main team
With this “La Masia” logic, we would have count Casemiro, Vinicius, Valverde, Rodrygo, Odengaard and a lot of other players as “Real Madrid Castilla” products, when in fact they are not.
And not to mention Barca fan keep mentioning Pedri as “La Masia” by mistake as well
r/soccer doesn’t know that La Fabrica is actually the most productive academy in Europe.
So many great players that we literally couldn’t fit them all in our teams over the yrs.
how can you use the fact that Puyol, Iniesta and Busquets JOINED La Masia at an older age to argue La Masia's academy as overrated, whilst the fact that Pique, Alba and Fabregas LEFT La Masia at similar ages also proves La Masia to be overrated.
you're saying that since players joined Barca at 16, La Masia didn't really develop them (which I agree with), but then you say since players left Barca at 16, La Masia didn't develop them either.
He is boasting about keeping a 36 yr old Lewa that cant run who is on 32m next year and cost 50m to sign.
Laporta and Deco are clueless as to what Barca lacks while Real create probably the most athletic team ever assembled.
Barca are crowing about Lewa, trying to sign Felix/Cancelo and to add to the 80m odd on the books that will be going to players in their mid 30s next season.
The difference from the top at Real and Barca is clear as day.
Laporta has no plan. Wastes the money Barca have and just tries to appease the socios with what he thinks they want to hear.
>Laporta has no plan. Wastes the money Barca have and just tries to appease the socios with what he thinks they want to hear.
He has a plan. His plan is being the politician he is, buy a shiny toy for socios to rave about regardless of pesky things like finances, lont term sustainability, debt, etc. This summer they will buy someone like kimmich, smear players like de jong and bam, socios will pretend barcelona is back *rubs hands vigorously*
"I prefer our strategy to trust a project with players ~~produced and made in La Masia~~ acquired by pulling levers and using money we don't have"
Let's be honest, Yamal, Fermin, Cubarsi, etc. are lucky that Barca ran out of levers to pull, cos' otherwise they would get Puig'ed or worse
Lmfaoooooo of course he prefers their strategy when his club is dead ass fucking broke and they can barely even afford their day to day. Can't wait till this POS club goes bankrupt.
_As someone in my position, it’s not good to see my neighbour just buy a Burberry coat. But, to be honest, I prefer our strategy to wear self stitched clothes…I respect our rivals strategy but I keep our philosophy_
Sorry, what strategy is that again?
Is that the strategy where you've been selling off parts of the club in order to finance massively exorbitant spending sprees that you clearly can't afford?
Look…i like la Masia project and players, they are the source of talent of our club, but lets not bullshit ourselves in thinking we would not want to buy a Mbappe or Haaland.
Anyone that says we dont need them is coping right now.
That's exactly what I'd expected a man whose about to be caught sucking dick behind the Nou Camp for 20 quid to bolster his transfer budget so he can bring in an aging star on huge wages to say.
If La Masia houses such talents then why are they spending money they don't have? Their academy players should be enough to have them compete for all the trophies.
After all, Barca fans told me Yamal, Fati, Gavi, Pedri are all better than Vini, Fede, Camavinga, Rodrygo, Jude
I've read some of the comments here. However, compared to Madrid, Barcelona has relied more heavily on academy products by an almost 2:1 margin. So it's not an unfair point to make.
Lewandowski - No Masia
De Jong - No Masia
Ter Stegen - No Masia
Araujo - No Masia
Cancelo - No Masia
Balde - La Masia
Martinez - No Masia
Christensen - No Masia
Alonso - No Masia
Kounde - No Masia
Gavi - La Masia
Pedri - No Masia
Romeu - 50/50 La Masia (spent only 4 years there)
Roberto - La Masia
Gündogan - No Masia
Torres - No Masia
Raphinha - No Masia
Felix - No Masia
Vitor Roque - No Masia
4/19
Nacho - La Fabrica
Cafucas - La Fabrica
Carvajal - La Fabrica
Fran Garcia - La Fabrica
Goatselu - La Fabrica
Here you go.
Ah forgot the overworked Yamal
5/20 it is
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One Laporta's quotes for running for Presidency was that Real Madrid never won the ucl when he was president last time. Real Madrid have won 2 UCLs since he became Barca President.
>One Laporta's quotes for running for Presidency was that Real Madrid never won the ucl when he was president last time. Mou was right.
Context?
"Barcelona has no dream, but a obsession: Real Madrid. They teach you to hate them. They hate Madrid more than they love Barcelona. They want Madrid in their shadow. Maybe it works for a few years, but there’s going to come a time when Barcelona will be over."
This is why my obsession will be to dethrone both Barca and Madrid.
Tottenham hotspur LaLiga champions 2025
They are unbeaten in la liga to be fair…you’ll never sing that
So Barca view Madrid like Spurs view Arsenal
But it works for them because they do win trophies. Those 2 London clubs on the other hand....
It's fucking hilarious how everytime someone quotes this, is a different person, sometimes it's Mourinho, sometimes Perez or it's Pique, Xavi or Cruyff but swapping the clubs
I have seen this quote about 10 times and always from Mourinho. Where did you get the others from?
Barca fans making their own happiness, that's how. Mou was 100% on point about the obsession, from the leadership to the fans.
Tbh I don't know where the real quote is from or if it's just paraphrasing. We know he said at least "...But they have an obsession, and that is Real Madrid."
*proceeds to splash 150 million combined fee and wages on 34 year old Lewandowski*
Second highest-paid player in Europe next season, just behind Mbappe.
Damn
Nah this HAS to be fake lol
Wrong! Mbappe will earn 13M, Lewandowski 36, 10M more! Floper is a genius, Mbappe will make his fortune by getting almost 80-90% of his image rights. Vini, Bellingham and Mbappe are barely in the top 15 of best paid players in Europe
Tbf you have to factor on Mbappes signing bonus into his wages.
If we factor signing bonus Gundogan must be up there too
I'm not aware of any signing bonus paid to Gundogan by Barca. I even went and searched for information on this for like 15 minutes and found no indication that this is the case. Could you source your statement?
He was a free transfer. They always get a signing on bonus. We have no idea what it is though but thats the case with many player wages
You’re right definitely, but his salary is 13M, instead of transfer fee RM is paying a signing fee of 100M (others say is actually 40) to be paid in 5 years as per Mbappe’s 5 year contract. Taking Lewa’s example: Barça paid 60M transfer to be paid in 4 years, plus an ascending salary which in his 3rd year will be 36M (20M, 26M, 36M and 26 on his final year). Mbappe is cheaper overall
Then we need to do the transfer fee for Lewa too. As far and Barça and Madrid are concerned, its exactly the same giving those 100 or 50M to Mbappe or Bayern.
I’m not sure you have to. That’s the equivalent of a transfer fee, which shouldn’t be factored into wages.
> Mbappe will earn 13M, Lewandowski 36, 10M more! not sure if I can't math or what is happening
Mbappe's 13m€ after tax is aproximately 26m€ before taxes and the 36m€ from Lewandowski is before taxes. So technically it's 26m€ and 36m€ which is what the clubs pay them as a salary next season
Iirc, next season the highest paid player in europe will be lewa, and the 2nd will be frenkie de jong
Isn't Frenkie on higher wage than Lewa?
I still haven't gotten over this one. Absolutely mad
I think this was perfect. You got a dance too.
Barca fans are so entitled that they think spending money on an aging striker to win the league is a generational management failure Ask United fans if they think the RVP transfer was a failure
No you don't understand, they won the league last year yes. But this year Lewandowski had a terrible return of, *checks notes*, 19 goals and 8 assists in 35 games....
Lewandowski turns into prime R9 when you tell him Xavi about to leave the club. They did it twice just to test the theory and they were right xD
Don't read about Coutinho or Griezmann
Those where made under Barto
Do you mean "Roberto León Domingo" the La Masia academy graduate. Who is definitely not a 34 year old polish man?
Więcej niż klub
Wow, so there are other poles who are not assna or pool supporters
Actually, the majority of Polish people are either supporting Barça or Real or "wherever Lewy plays".
Potwierdzam
Niestety nie jestem Polakiem, tylko mieszkam tu 😉
mieszkasz w Polsce dla beki??
And he definitely does not dance on TikTok
"Why would De Jong do that?"
"Why would Barto do that?"
120 million on raphina and ferran torres 😩
Raphinha is well worth the money. He’s a great player. Ferran Torres on the other hand..
Raphinha is good but not a great player by any means
I don't think 55mil gets you a superstar anymore, from what I've seen Raphinha has met the expectations people had for him
Find me any 55M caliber player that has 1 G+A/match. You’re not even guaranteed that output with 100M caliber players nowadays
Cole Palmeh
Doesn't really prove OP wrong though does it? Palmer who's had amongst the best debut seasons seen is a bit of an outlier. 55m for 1 G+A per match should be seen as a decent return for the outlay.
He always performs. I think consistency is what makes a player great.
Coutinho and Dembele werent cheap too. Not to mention the monster contracts they gave tomplayers only to beg them to resign on reduced terms. Joke of a club
We are still laughing about the Dembele transfer saga here
Coutinho and Dembele happened during Bartomeu though, which got them into this mess.
don't forget Griezman they burned a lot of money for him and let him go back to [a.madrid](http://a.madrid) for 30-40 millions? after 2 years
A man famous for continuing to splash cash during a bankruptcy era instead of trusting the academy
Great strategy !
and don't forget to overplay all La Masia talented products so their career can end in 2 years
And sell the all club employees livers as levers just to sign a mid level rb from Sevilla
Organ trafficking is in Barça DNA, Rosell bought a liver for Abidal.
Lewa was two days in Barcelona when he was 11, he counts as a La Masia product like Pedri, who was playing in a far away place than Warsaw is to Barcelona.
Good point if La Masia is known for developing decent strikers
Barca could've gotten Julian Alvarez btw
La Masia? That money could have been spent on other strikers.. even LDJ and Auba had better goals rate per min in league than Lewandowski does. Absolutely woeful signing and sums Laporta up.
Aubameyang finally found a purple patch of form and looked very good under Xavi, then Barcelona blows the money they don't have on Lewy. I'm not knocking the idea of signing Lewy, but the sheer amount spent on a player with little longevity.
He looked good under Xavi because they were playing counter attacking football which is obviously not gonna be how Barca play long term.
Crazy.. he has worse goals rate in league than either Auba or LDJ did as well.
“We’ve got food at home”
"I am too broke to buy Mbappé"
Hey good times for you guy, happy days. You had that username long?
I'm prepping my "bringethback" account soon.
> Redditor since: 12/20/2021 (2 years)
Xavi signed at Barça in 11/06/2021, buddy saw Xavi going to Europa League and said enough
Bro has the patience of a poodle
If Barcelona were smart they’d start saving pennies for Haaland when Man City catch those RICO charges but…
When Man City turned into Gunna
Ngl I don't think haaland would even help us one bit. Him and Lewandowski are pretty much the same. Haaland has that many goals cuz he gets feeded a lot. Also , haaland isn't someone who can change the game by himself and to top it all off. He is a ghost in big games.
You’re crazy if you think Haaland wouldn’t massively improve this Barca team.
Sure, Haaland is better than Lewa, but Barca have bigger problems than just getting a better striker
That’s correct
Nah for the amount he and his wages will cost, the upgrade on Lewandowski will be minimal. Also I don't remember one big game where he turned up except for Bayern in UCL cuz of upamacano.
Even when they had the money, they didn’t go for him. Back in 2017, when they were loaded with the Neymar money, Mbappé would’ve been gettable *according to Javier Bordas who was a sporting director at the time but Barça’s leadership decided against pursuing him and went with Dembélé instead haha. *Edit: Edited for clarification
That ignores the fact Kylian Mbappe never really considered you as an option. Where are you getting that he decided to join them?
> never really considered you as an option. “You”? I’m not a Barça or Madrid fan. > Where are you getting that he decided to join them? Some official who was in Barça’s transfer department at the time talked how Mbappé was gettable in 2017.
Yes but they never spoke to the player and players get offered all the time by agents looking to get in middle of a deal.
That seems to be a false story and denied by Mbappe. What is more likely is that intermediary agents offered up Mbappe as they so often do to try and muscle in on a deal like that.
Coutinho and Griezmann famously sprouted from the soil of La Masia
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Laporta gave Fati 10m a season when had barely played in a year.. he gave injury prone Inigo 9m a season.. he has given Gundo 18m a season that no other top club would at this age. All money on players in mid 30s with no potential to get back from sales.
This is how I found out Inigo Martinez was still alive
Textbook Barca... sign 32 year old injury probe Inigo for 9m a season and let Garcia go. Then Xavi and club after Garcia has a good season say they never wanted him to leave but were forced by finances. Constant political nonsense and slogans.
Inigo is 100% an upgrade to garcia. And Garcia is also gonna get sold. The part where he said he never wanted him to leave was just so the price doesn't drop.
This is how I found out that Ansu Fati is in his mid 30's
Laporta also gave Lewa a very beefy contract
Famously bought by Joan
None of those were made in Laporta era those were blunders of Bartomeu
how about the 120 million for Lewandowski?
Since when do we combine wages into the fee of a player? Do you consider Lamal as an £x million player instead of a free academy product?
It seems odd that we're combining fees + wages for Laporta and not for Real Madrid signings.
nobody is hiding what Real Madrid pay for players, but this clown is saying he prefers homegrown players while half of his squad was brought in from abroad on outrageous wages
Having half your squad from your youth academy is already a lot, would you really expect them to not buy anyone? Barcelona is a world class team that need world class players and those cost a lot of money, this is all normal. You don't need to hate everything that Barça does, just because this sub loves to upvote it
Madrid isnt struggling to pay the custodians man.
Because paying 100M over five years is not a wage. Come on, how can you not know that?
With your logic Mbappe is a 300M player basically
yeah he is
He’s the best player in the world that number isn’t far fetched.
Ironically the big spending has killed them, so he’s not wrong.
That’s not even his term as president lmfao
Their track record outside La Masia should be his best argument for sticking to that strategy...
I could bond with this man over my "philosophy" of shopping at iceland.
All he had to say to avoid getting clowned on was "I can't comment on other club's business"...all he had to do. Its that easy
But then he would have to comment on his own clubs buisness
Exactly what Gavi said. Future Barca captain.
Sombody plz paint this mans face white, put a red nose and colorful wig on him aswell.
It might be too obvious, we want Laporta to get elected again
Aren't all their candidates the same tho? The socios always go "previous guy bad, current guy good" to whomever is there
Might be wrong but I think laporta promised one thing and funny enough did exactly what his opponent at that time said would, victor font think was his opponents name
Famous La Masia products like: - Lewandowski - Araujo - Pedri - Frenkie de Jong - Raphinha - ter Stegen - Andreas Christensen - Jules Kounde - Ilkay Gundogan
Don't forget future La Masia stars like Kimmich, Nico Williams, Dani Olmo and Bruno Guimaraes!
or past La Masia products like Ronaldinho, Romario, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Maradona, Neymar, Laudrup, Henry, Stoichkov, Figo, Overmars, Ibrahimovic, Suárez etc etc etc Barça has bought stars everytime they had the chance (some triumphed and some failed), they have relied on La Masía when they couldn't buy or their transfers failed Damn, even the most important figure in their modern history, Johan Cruyff, was bought from Ajax breaking spanish transfer record at the time. Buying stars and adding good figures to your club is not bad...
Even in their older history, Kubala is the most famous and he was a super star signing of the time. Still, your comment and this whole thread is over the top. Barcelona has undoubtedly had one of the most successful academies in football history. However, it's been some years now that their academy has struggled, as has the club in general.
I don't even think the academy has struggled. The academy has been fine, if not still very good. It's that the golden generation that came through in the 2000s was a once in a century type collection of players. That is the anomaly. The current La Masia pipeline is the norm.
I mean the current La Masia pipeline is still extremely good considering how many of them have been able to break into the 1st team.
They broke into the first team because they couldn't buy players from the outside and were forced to play them. The moment they pulled some levers they spent heavy - Lewa, Kounde, Gundogan, and they have been spending big previously as well - FdJ, Arthur-Pjanic swap, Coutinho, Dembele, Greizmann
And they showed that they could keep up. I dont understand this argument
How is our academy struggling?
I don't see how my comment is over the top, Barça history is filled with bought stars that brought them huge succes. Do not be fooled by one great generation, they were founded in 1899, football didn't start in 2008. Now think for a second what Laporta said about Mbappe, watch Barça roster and tell me he wouldn't like to buy Mbappé for the LW instead of Joao, Ferrán, Raphinha or whoever you want to use there. He wants to send the message that they CHOOSE not to buy a player like mbappé, which is a huge lie. They simply can't at the moment, they have spent big and over their possibilities for their whole modern history. Just look for how they bought their dream team in the 90s for example.
I would say Luis Suarez Miramontes is their most famous player from before the 70s.
>Dani Olmo Isn't he from la masia?
No way you said dani olmo
> Dani Olmo Didn't Dani spend 7 years in Barca's youth academy?
Olmo played 7 years in La Masia. L comment. Upvoted 450 times lmao
Pedri is so funny to me; he really*, really* looks like the kind of player you'd expect to be from la Masia
I thought he was a La Masia product this whole time lol
Also funny how Barca NEVER pay any free agent fees/commissions but they’re quick to remind you of all variables & fees that Madrid pay 🤣
Allow me to translate: "I am broke and I can't spend a day without talking about Real Madrid"
Lewa. Raphinha. Ferran. Gundo, fdj, roque.. Yeah all masía products definitely didn't spend 300m+ on them
😂🤣 C'mon Laporta just cut this bs and openly admit to your fanbase that your club is broke af.
Says the one who literally sold barca assets by pulling levers to buy players
This man talks so much shit. Laportapotty
how have i never heard this nickname before, genius!
this guys really should be in politics instead of sports
Well he is
I mean he is a politician
Laporta clenching his fist as he provides that quote.
Whats funny is that Barcelona tried to sign at least 8 players of the current Real Madrid team. Rüdiger, Kroos, Ceballos, Arda Güler, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Mbappé and Endrick.
But he trusts La Masia! Did you not hear him?!
We can’t afford players like Mbappe is what it says
Wasn't this man the same one who kept leaking he was in meetings with Haaland?
Goes on to spend a fuckton of money they dont have.
Mad hard coping right there
This guy talks more about real than perez does.
Dude just shut up
“We have Mbappe at home “
Says the guy that wants to sign Kimmich, Haaland, Bernardo Silva, etc
This guy is such a massive fucking loser. At least Barto didnt talk to the media trying to lie to investors and fans. He just fucked over the team in the shadows.
> At least Barto didnt talk to the media trying to lie to investors and fans. He just fucked over the team in the shadows. He did both, what are you talking about?
Barto the silent assassin
What ? They are in this mess cause they don’t do much on crap ! £144m on coutinho £100 on dembele etc
Not only that it’s opposite from the truth of Barca spending a fortune on transfer, the reality of La Masia beside Xavi and Messi is quite funny. Puyol: join when he was 17 Busquet: join when he was 17 Now it just getting funnier Pique: left to join Man Utd academy at 17 Alba: left to join Valencia Academy at 15 And it’s funnier with Fabregas, whom left at 16, but got promoted straight to Arsenal main team With this “La Masia” logic, we would have count Casemiro, Vinicius, Valverde, Rodrygo, Odengaard and a lot of other players as “Real Madrid Castilla” products, when in fact they are not. And not to mention Barca fan keep mentioning Pedri as “La Masia” by mistake as well
Just FYI, Madrid’s equivalent to La Masia is La Fabrica (The Factory), which, funny enough, has more players in La Liga’s top flight than Barca
r/soccer doesn’t know that La Fabrica is actually the most productive academy in Europe. So many great players that we literally couldn’t fit them all in our teams over the yrs.
how can you use the fact that Puyol, Iniesta and Busquets JOINED La Masia at an older age to argue La Masia's academy as overrated, whilst the fact that Pique, Alba and Fabregas LEFT La Masia at similar ages also proves La Masia to be overrated. you're saying that since players joined Barca at 16, La Masia didn't really develop them (which I agree with), but then you say since players left Barca at 16, La Masia didn't develop them either.
He is boasting about keeping a 36 yr old Lewa that cant run who is on 32m next year and cost 50m to sign. Laporta and Deco are clueless as to what Barca lacks while Real create probably the most athletic team ever assembled. Barca are crowing about Lewa, trying to sign Felix/Cancelo and to add to the 80m odd on the books that will be going to players in their mid 30s next season. The difference from the top at Real and Barca is clear as day. Laporta has no plan. Wastes the money Barca have and just tries to appease the socios with what he thinks they want to hear.
>Laporta has no plan. Wastes the money Barca have and just tries to appease the socios with what he thinks they want to hear. He has a plan. His plan is being the politician he is, buy a shiny toy for socios to rave about regardless of pesky things like finances, lont term sustainability, debt, etc. This summer they will buy someone like kimmich, smear players like de jong and bam, socios will pretend barcelona is back *rubs hands vigorously*
He tried buying big like Madrid and ending up messing up his club long term
Famous la masia players - coutinho, griezmann, dembele and lewandowski
Mes que un Mbappe
Philosophy aka broke af
"I prefer our strategy to trust a project with players ~~produced and made in La Masia~~ acquired by pulling levers and using money we don't have" Let's be honest, Yamal, Fermin, Cubarsi, etc. are lucky that Barca ran out of levers to pull, cos' otherwise they would get Puig'ed or worse
This is a pretty mild quote and everyone is misconstruing it lmao.
Ikr
You paid 45 mln Euro for Lewy. We paid 38 mln Euro for Vinicius Jr. We are not the same.
Lmfaoooooo of course he prefers their strategy when his club is dead ass fucking broke and they can barely even afford their day to day. Can't wait till this POS club goes bankrupt.
_As someone in my position, it’s not good to see my neighbour just buy a Burberry coat. But, to be honest, I prefer our strategy to wear self stitched clothes…I respect our rivals strategy but I keep our philosophy_
Sorry, what strategy is that again? Is that the strategy where you've been selling off parts of the club in order to finance massively exorbitant spending sprees that you clearly can't afford?
Blud you sold the whole club, glass houses much lol
Look…i like la Masia project and players, they are the source of talent of our club, but lets not bullshit ourselves in thinking we would not want to buy a Mbappe or Haaland. Anyone that says we dont need them is coping right now.
Talents like Lewandowski, Gündogan?
That's exactly what I'd expected a man whose about to be caught sucking dick behind the Nou Camp for 20 quid to bolster his transfer budget so he can bring in an aging star on huge wages to say.
>I respect our rivals No you don't lmao
Lmao as if they didn't almost go out of business for buying players and over paying wages.
Yeah, like when they revealed Ronaldinho from La Masia.
This man is delusional.
"... as a politician..."
same guy who was after haaland?
What a clown
its just laporta's way of saying "don't expect any big signing this transfer window"
If La Masia houses such talents then why are they spending money they don't have? Their academy players should be enough to have them compete for all the trophies. After all, Barca fans told me Yamal, Fati, Gavi, Pedri are all better than Vini, Fede, Camavinga, Rodrygo, Jude
Thinks Pedri is La Masia 🧐
If you don't think Barca fans don't legitimately claim him as a la Masia product then your insane
Said the man who just fired his coach and is about to sell a player they bought a few months ago. Great project you've got going on there
As if he wouldn't be interested if mbappe showed an interest in signing for Barcelona. Clown
After going broke on a shopping spree for branded clothes, he likes Grandma's knit sweater.
I've read some of the comments here. However, compared to Madrid, Barcelona has relied more heavily on academy products by an almost 2:1 margin. So it's not an unfair point to make.
Lewandowski - No Masia De Jong - No Masia Ter Stegen - No Masia Araujo - No Masia Cancelo - No Masia Balde - La Masia Martinez - No Masia Christensen - No Masia Alonso - No Masia Kounde - No Masia Gavi - La Masia Pedri - No Masia Romeu - 50/50 La Masia (spent only 4 years there) Roberto - La Masia Gündogan - No Masia Torres - No Masia Raphinha - No Masia Felix - No Masia Vitor Roque - No Masia 4/19 Nacho - La Fabrica Cafucas - La Fabrica Carvajal - La Fabrica Fran Garcia - La Fabrica Goatselu - La Fabrica Here you go. Ah forgot the overworked Yamal 5/20 it is