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Jordi Cruyff will leave FC Barcelona on June 30

2023-05-16T15:47:50.283Z

Highlights: Jordi Cruyff will not renew his contract as sporting director of FC Barcelona. He will leave the club on June 30 and has not yet decided what his destination will be. The decision has been communicated by JordiCruyff himself to Barça president Joan Laporta. The Barca president has already begun negotiations for the sporting manager of Barcelona to become the Brazilian Deco, former Barcelona player and now owner of a player representation agency in Brazil that includes the Barcelona striker Raphinha. The departure joins that of the director of football Mateu Alemany.


The Barça sporting director informs the club that he will not renew his position and joins the departure of the director of football, Mateu Alemany, known two weeks ago


Barcelona sporting director Jordi Cruyff, right, with Barça president Joan Laporta in a file image. Urbanandsport (NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Jordi Cruyff will not renew his contract as sporting director of FC Barcelona and therefore on June 30 he will leave the club he joined in September 2021. The decision has been communicated by Jordi Cruyff himself to Barça president Joan Laporta. The meeting was described as "emotional" in an official note released by Barça itself in which it was also reported that Johan Cruyff's son wanted to "undertake new professional projects" after two seasons in the offices of the Camp Nou.

The departure of Jordi Cruyff joins that of the director of football Mateu Alemany, expressed last day 2. In both cases, the two offer to assist in the transition of the soccer executive and close pending market operations until June 30. The Barça president has already begun negotiations for the sporting manager of Barcelona to become the Brazilian Deco, former Barcelona player and now owner of a player representation agency in Brazil that includes the Barcelona striker Raphinha.

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Laporta compared last Monday Deco with Txiki Begiristain, manager of Manchester City and technical secretary of Barça in the first stage of the current president of Barça (2003-2010). The Barça president, known as a cruyffista, has always defended the task that was carried out as soon as he arrived at the Camp Nou when he chose Frank Rijkaard as coach. Jordi Cruyff's decision, in any case, has nothing to do with the possible election of Deco or the departure of Alemany, according to people close to the still sporting director of Barça.

"There have been no misunderstandings or distancing with the board and fewer demands on their part," agreed sources close to Jordi and Barcelona. "The decision had been maturing for some time and he understands that now is the best time to make it after the team has won the league." Jordi Cruyff believes that, together with Alemany, an executive he did not know, and especially with Xavi, to whom he is a good friend, they have built a champion team and the time has come to close a cycle and look for new challenges outside Barça.

The Barça sporting director, who on Monday participated in the parade of the champions and champions through the streets of Barcelona, has acted as a link of the team with the directive and has also been decisive in the signing of players such as the Danish Christensen. "Jordi has always been a very intuitive person", argue from the Ciudad Deportiva del Barcelona. Although he was presented along with Xavi as leaders of the sports organization chart of the candidate Víctor Font to the 2021 elections, he distanced himself from any link and in September he went on to work with Laporta.

Jordi Cruyff will leave the Club on June 30

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Jordi Cruyff has not yet decided what his destination will be nor does he have any offer because before he wanted to announce that he would not renew for Barcelona. Laporta will have to reorganize the sports plot in the same way that he has had to change those responsible for Espai Barça and continues without appointing the replacement of CEO Ferran Reverter. The current organization chart of the club has nothing to do with the one that came out of the 2021 elections. The president has progressively chosen to run the club as "a family business" in the style of the last two years of his first term (2008-2010).

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Source: elparis

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