There has been a lot of speculation surrounding Kylian Mbappe over the last few weeks. The 24-year-old has recently been transfer-listed by Paris Saint-Germain over his failure to sign a new contract, and a summer exit appears likely.
Real Madrid are favourites to sign Mbappe, and there would certainly be an argument to suggest that they would have one of the best, if not the best, squads in world football if he joins this summer.
Despite this, Barcelona President Joan Laporta fully believes that his club are more than capable of toppling their El Clasico rivals, as per Diario AS.
“He is an extraordinary player, someone who makes a difference. Playing against him is difficult, but I trust my team. The players that Barcelona have are the best.
“A team consists of 11 players and the priority should always be the team over the individuals. We have a better team than last year and we’re going to have it even better (than then).”
Laporta’s remarks were echoed by Barcelona captain Sergi Roberto, as well as young gun Gavi.
Roberto – “For me, Barcelona have the best squad in the world. We have a template to fight for everything.”
Gavi – “Real Madrid can sign whoever they want, I absolutely don’t care. We will do our own thing and we are going to fight to the death (to beat them).”
Barcelona were able to overcome Real Madrid on two occasions last season in order to win trophies (LaLiga and the Spanish Super Cup), and they will fancy their chances of doing so again in 2023-24.
Notice how many times he is talking about Madrid and season hasnt even started?
Compare that to 0 times RM mention their team.
Madriditis is nothing to joke about.
RM hierarchy*
Man, you talk too much! He answered a question!
Ok racist mong subhuman with profound mentaI issues and aut. lsm.
It’s nothing unusual nor out of ordinary that Barcelona upper echelon talk obsessively about Real Madrid when asked or not asked directly about the club.
Those statements are clearly responses to the question “how do you feel about Mbappe joining Real Madrid?”
Journalists ask questions like that to get a sound bite, because they know people will react emotionally. It’s lazy journalism, but it works.
That would have made sense if laporta didnt already stated once to sport that brokELona have a better team, without being asked about Mbappe or Madrid.
He merely was sort of “putting it out there”. Perez never mentions bribELona unless adresed, unlike laporta. First thing he hilariously mentioned during Negreira scandal was “its RMs fault”. Rent free.
I understand your deflections when your club shows how obsessed they are with RM as its embarrassing. It cant be easy for neither them (or you) being behind Madrid in every relevant metric.
Journalists asking questions specifically to get a sound bite response that they can then use to create a narrative in order to inflame their readers and drive clicks and interest.
It works, obviously.
Obviously youre (as per usual) playing stupid.
I just wrote that he gave an interview in sport where he wasnt questioned about Madrid.
Maybe Im giving you too much credit and in reality you arent “playing” stupid.
I understand that youre frustrated by your club being obsessed with a rival whose success is unreachable for you. But those deflections are just laughable even for you. Its pretty obvious over the course of time and a span of different presidents, which club talked about other more and vice versa.
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FC Barcelona can only be described as a spiteful ex-wife that can not stop talking about her successful ex-husband.