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Joan Laporta Insists He Was ‘Right’ to Let Lionel Messi Go as He Talks About Controversial Barcelona Decision

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Barcelona president Joan Laporta has opened up about Lionel Messi's departure from the club in 2021. He said that it was the right decision due to the club's financial issues at the time.

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Joan Laporta will again head Barcelona as of 1 July. It will be his fourth term at the head of the blue granny entity and will seek to crown himself as the first elected president to complete all his mandates, something that Josep Lluís Núñez, Joan Gaspart, Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu could not achieve. In his office on Diagonal Avenue in Barcelona he receives EL PAÍS, as sure of what he has achieved as distrustful of those who descri…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Sunday, March 29, 2026.
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