Joan Laporta has been talking about Alejandro Echevarr\u00eda following criticism from former Barcelona boss Xavi Hernandez.<\/p>\n
\u201cI signed for Bar\u00e7a thanks to him [Laporta], but he ended up letting me down. Why? He dismissed me as coach without telling me the truth, influenced by someone I believe is above the president, Alejandro Echevarr\u00eda. In other words, it was Alejandro who dismissed me as coach,\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s how this Bar\u00e7a works, it\u2019s practically run by Alejandro Echevarr\u00eda. He was someone with whom I had a close, friendly relationship, and that\u2019s why his departure from Bar\u00e7a is perhaps the biggest disappointment. He completely let me down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Echevarria\u2019s role at the club is unclear – he\u2019s been regularly described as an \u2018advisor\u2019 to Laporta – and the club chief has shared a bit of information about his role at the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no need for him to have the status of employee or director; he has his own job, he\u2019s on leave, the club doesn\u2019t incur any expenses related to him, the president authorizes it, and he\u2019s a trusted person,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not sectarian; he\u2019s been a member for 25 years, he has the silver badge, he does a good job, he\u2019s efficient, and I can rely on him. I\u2019m very satisfied with the work he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Xavi also claimed that Echevarr\u00eda went around talking to players including \u201cSergi Roberto, Ara\u00fajo, Pedri, and Raphinha, telling them that I wanted to sell them\u201d before his exit from the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan Laporta has been talking about Alejandro Echevarr\u00eda following criticism from former Barcelona boss Xavi Hernandez. \u201cI signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1208,49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-526694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}