Barcelona's Support for Lamine Yamal

How are you? Good evening. We’ve just arrived.

We’ve been with President Laporta, who has spoken quite openly about the

Ballon d’Or, including what he said about Rodri.

Anyway, Josep, I do have information, and Barça,

uh, are going

to support, right to the end, and it’s the strategy they’ve had for

days now,

Lamine Yamal. It’s, it’s true they’ve seen that a campaign has begun

from

the other side, Mbappé himself, on his own behalf in several interviews,

and they believe Lamine is the rightful winner.

Mbappé’s campaign is on his own behalf. It would be, for them to understand, the campaign…

No, campaign.

It would be a self-promotion campaign, right?

No, I mean, I mean, the— it’s true that Mbappé has begun, in recent

days, to do, to launch a self-promotion campaign in interviews,

saying that he…

deserves it. Then backed, incidentally, by friendly media outlets or by

certain like-minded people or people who think so.

Well, Barça believes Lamine deserves the Ballon d'Or

above all else,

for what he has done at the club, for what he has done with the national team.

And it's true they will support him, we've seen it, and support him publicly,

even

Laporta tonight. But there will be more.

And I'm telling you, in the coming days, get ready because,

uh, there will be interesting things on a

grand scale.

There will be interesting things on a grand scale to, uh, support Lamine

and they won't, they won't come only directly

from the club.

In other words, there will be significant outside support

from

people...

We're talking about athletes, about, about, about players

major world-class players who are going to support...

Even with Leo Messi, I don't know if Laporta... Maybe Laporta won't.

Messi can't support him, he's involved too.

But that makes it clear, José, the support is for Lamine

Yamal, and there are no doubts from the club.

No, no, no. He, the support and the club have taken a stance.

In fact, this afternoon there was a meeting with,

with Mendes, and they

talked about this issue, you know? Above all. I mean,

there's no market to talk about now.

It's true there's the Gavi situation, but they'll talk in January.

They've told Rodri, haven't they?

Uh, they've told Rodri. In, in fact,

I asked Laporta about

this issue, uh, explicitly. Rodri has

said that the club has decided on Lamine.

Yes.

What does he think? And he answers me.

Okay.

And we'll see it later, but Rodri knows that Barça

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