Barcelona president Joan Laporta has pleaded for “patience” after the club’s difficult summer extended into a 3-0 Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich.
\nInstitutional issues meeting\u00a0La Liga’s\u00a0Financial Fair Play regulations, debt of more than \u20ac1 billion\u00a0and the devastating loss of talisman Lionel Messi have troubled the club. A sense of doom was added to in this week’s one-sided European opener.
\n\u201cHello Cules, I\u2019m as hurt and indignant as all of you are, (but) what we are going through is one of the scenarios we contemplated,”\u00a0Laporta stated in the aftermath.
\n“I ask for patience. Patience and that you keep supporting the team.
\n\u201cAnd I also ask for your confidence in those in charge of the club. We need this margin of confidence and you should have no doubt, we will fix it.
\n“Many thanks, and visca Barca!\u201d
\nBarca next play Granada on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barcelona president Joan Laporta has pleaded for \u201cpatience\u201d after the club\u2019s difficult summer extended into a 3-0 Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich.
\nInstitutional issues meeting\u00a0La Liga\u2019s\u00a0Financial Fair Play regulations, debt of more than \u20ac1 billion\u00a0and the devastating loss of talisman Lionel Messi have troubled the club. A sense of doom was added to in this week\u2019s one-sided European opener.
\n\u201cHello Cules, I\u2019m as hurt and indignant as all of you are, (but) what we are going through is one of the scenarios we contemplated,\u201d\u00a0Laporta stated in the aftermath.
\n\u201cI ask for patience. Patience and that you keep supporting the team.
\n\u201cAnd I also ask for your confidence in those in charge of the club. We need this margin of confidence and you should have no doubt, we will fix it.
\n\u201cMany thanks, and visca Barca!\u201d
\nBarca next play Granada on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129775,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129774\/revisions\/129775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}