Ramon Planes Reveals Bartomeu's Plans: Bombshells!

[Messigician]

Some stunning revelations

Ram?n Planes: "Lautaro? He was very close to signing for Barcelona. The negotiations took place before the pandemic. We had many meetings with his agents and with Inter. It was about to happen and then the pandemic happened.

Javier Tebas: ?Reverter kidnapped Barcelona's philosophy. He was a man who was constantly in contact with Florentino and the reason Messi is no longer with us"

? @abc

Ram?n Planes: "Locatelli? He is a Barcelona-style player. We were extremely close to getting him but Juventus are strong, they have a certain appeal for Italian players and in the end he decided to go to Juve."

? @DiMarzio

Ram?n Planes: We were interested in Vlahovic, signing him, two years ago, but it wasn?t possible."

? @DiMarzio

Ram?n Planes (former technical secretary): "Messi's departure? I did not expect him to leave immediately, I thought he would leave in two years. For Barcelona it's difficult in this new era, but it's easier with this new generation of talents."

? @DiMarzio

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Nothing shocking really.

 

[khaled_a_d]

Questions were mainly concerned about Italian market/perspective.
Other than the typical "we followed/we had interest" answers the only real information is that we really wanted to sign Lautaro which confirms how insane we were.
If Planas was ok with that, I might change my feelings toward his departure.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Questions were mainly concerned about Italian market/perspective.
Other than the typical "we followed/we had interest" answers the only real information is that we really wanted to sign Lautaro which confirms how insane we were.
If Planas was ok with that, I might change my feelings toward his departure.

Lautaro was kind of known no? All the tabloids talked about it. No surprise there.

Would have been another wasted 120mil btw.

 

[Messigician]

Questions were mainly concerned about Italian market/perspective.
Other than the typical "we followed/we had interest" answers the only real information is that we really wanted to sign Lautaro which confirms how insane we were.
If Planas was ok with that, I might change my feelings toward his departure.

nothing wrong with wanting to sign lautaro and neymar we had the money for it pre covid. But would have been trouble if we signed them and then covid hit

 

[khaled_a_d]

nothing wrong with wanting to sign lautaro and neymar we had the money for it pre covid. But would have been trouble if we signed them and then covid hit

Lautaro is good player, but for 100M+ it is a terrible deal for us. Even with no Covid.

 

[Messigician]

Lautaro is good player, but for 100M+ it is a terrible deal for us. Even with no Covid.

meh plays well with messi and works hard

griezmann lautaro messi

is a good front 3 workrate wise

 

[FC B]

Very happy Lautaro didn't got to Barca, would've been another resounding flop.

 

[Messigician]

Barcelona had a deal almost finalised to bring Neymar back to the club in the summer of 2018 but it collapsed in the last minute.

? @FabrizioRomano

 

[DonAK]

Not sure I buy the pandemic part with regards to Lautaro considering Lautaro alluded to rejecting our offer after learning Messi wanted to leave

Anyway dodged a bullet there.

 

[soul24rage]

I love Lautaro, but at the price that was rumoured, I'm glad that the negotiation was not completed.

 

[DonAK]

Lautaro cannot play as a lone striker. We should never sign him unless we switch to a system with two strikers. Doesn't matter if he cost 40m or 100m IMO.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Barcelona had a deal almost finalised to bring Neymar back to the club in the summer of 2018 but it collapsed in the last minute.

? @FabrizioRomano

Barto did Terrible job yet got lucky and dodged few bullets. Neymar and Lautaro.

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

Neymar would be perfect to take Torres' spot.

 

[messi2140]

I take it back that it was a good idea selling Messi for that 100M.