Joan Laporta, now a candidate for the presidency of Barcelona has returned to the eye of world football, thanks to the fact that he wants to take that position at the culé club, in an interview he revealed that Cristiano Ronaldo He was able to arrive at Barcelona more than fifteen years ago.
In an interview with “Iniestazo”, Laporta said that many years ago he had the opportunity to have Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi together at Barcelona, thanks to the representative of Rafael Marquez.
“Yes, we had just signed Ronaldinho and Rafa Márquez. The people of Marquez He proposed us to sign a boy named Cristiano Ronaldo, who was at Sporting Lisbon at the time“Joan expressed to the aforementioned media.
The pre-candidate for the presidency of FC Barcelona stated that the arrival of Cristiano was frustrated because at that time he had already signed the Brazilian Ronaldinho.
“He approached me and told me there is a player who I have already sold it to Manchester United for 19 million, I leave it to you at 17 million, but we had already invested in Ronaldinho”.
He added that at that time CR7 He played more in the band than in the center, we thought that with the investment we had made with Ronaldinho it was more than covered and on time Laporta assured that he does not regret that decision.
In addition, in this interview, the former president of Barcelona said that signing Rafa Márquez was one of the best decisions in his management at Barcelona, all of his reinforcements triumphed and at an excellent level, most of them had continuity and both Ronaldinho, Eto’o were stellar. , Deco and of course Rafa Márquez, who, according to Laporta, was an element that was consolidated a lot and was key in the culé team in the years when he visited the Blaugrana shirt, the Michoacan arrived from Monaco, the club with which he conquered League 1.
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