{"id":632056,"date":"2026-09-30T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632056\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:50:09","slug":"we-stopped-joan-laporta-reveals-why-barcelona-failed-in-summer-transfer-pursuit-of-inter-captain-lautaro-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632056\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We stopped&#8217; &#8211; Joan Laporta reveals why Barcelona failed in summer transfer pursuit of Inter captain Lautaro Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corrieredellosport.it\/news\/calcio\/calcio-mercato\/inter\/2026\/09\/30-151562688\/joan_laporta_l_intervista_volevo_lautaro_a_tutti_i_costi_ma_marotta_disse_di_no\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Corriere dello Sport<\/a>, Laporta explained how the transfer broke down. He praised the Argentina international before admitting defeat in the face of Marotta&#8217;s firm stance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s an incredible player; we didn\u2019t want to let him slip away at any cost,&#8221; Laporta said. &#8220;So I rang President Marotta and he told me the player wasn\u2019t for sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Laporta suggested that Martinez was open to joining Barcelona, he acknowledged that the player&#8217;s wishes could not force a transfer against the club&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inter told us &#8216;no&#8217; and so we told them that, in any case, it wouldn&#8217;t be the player who decided whether or not to leave, because Inter wanted to keep him,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So, out of respect for Beppe Marotta, whom I respect enormously, we stopped and that was the end of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to Corriere dello Sport, Laporta explained how the transfer broke down. He praised the Argentina international before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1998,85,22069,46,75814,18617,25548,105,9461],"class_list":["post-632056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-il","tag-inter","tag-israel","tag-l-martinez","tag-laliga","tag-serie-a","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}