Surprise in the sports dome of Barcelona. Mateu Alemany will leave the club on June 30. The football director, Joan Laporta's star signing during the 2021 elections, had a contract until 2024 but has decided to "start a new professional project," the Blaugrana club explained in a statement after the win against Osasuna.
As La Vanguardia has learned, Alemany has received a great offer from Aston Villa, seventh in the Premier League, where he will work hand in hand with Unai Emery. The executive announced this Tuesday the decision to leave it. Barça, knowing the numbers, has not even considered trying to match the economic proposal.
Alemany has transferred to the president the intention of taking "a new path" despite the fact that he had one more season of connection left. Laporta and Alemany have reached a friendly agreement and the executive has guaranteed "that he will complete the entire summer market with the entity," Barça reports.
That is to say, despite the fact that Alemany will no longer belong to Barcelona, he "has committed to closing all the operations of the first team this summer", even those that are closed at the last minute in the market. In fact, the expert will remain in the future as an advisor that Barça will be able to turn to in specific cases.
At Barcelona, Alemany formed a tandem with Jordi Cruyff, sports director. With this departure, Cruyff could be in charge of assuming all the functions in the signings. The club assures that it will shortly inform of the changes in the structure.
In its statement, Barça considers that thanks to the Balearic professional, a great connoisseur of the world of football, they were able to "close operations that seemed impossible and provide the coach with competitive teams, within the economic problems that the entity still drags".
