I will give it to you, it is cringe when Laporta and his buddy openly talked about Haaland or players under contract with another club like this. It is OK if we couldn't afford to get him, they could have and should have just said "he is a Dortmund player, no comment".
What is annoying is not the 'we can't afford him' line, but
that these comments come after an irritating period of 1 year since Laporta became elected of pushing Haaland rumours, leaks to the press that we are snatching him, heightening up fans expectations, throwing big lines like 'Barca is back' and all that shit...
... only to come up with the 'oh we don't want to put the club into danger' crap ONLY AFTER Haaland rejected us for City and RM.
NO, you PUT THE CLUB in DANGER already with your proposal to him, and you would have jeopardized the finances of the club with the contract you would have given him, *IF he had selected us ahead of the others *
just because that was YOUR WET FANTASY, not giving a shit about the finances of the club FUCK'n HYPOCRITE