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However, on Monday evening, as Xavi took charge of the team’s first training session of this summer’s pre-season, there were no exciting new faces looking back at him. The most important parts of that office work had yet to be done.became important for many Barca fans, especially after Laporta set it as a deadline for gaining permission to activate two more “economic levers” at a special assembly of club members.
Still, the story being sold to the club’s fans, other clubs and the wider football public was a positive one. Sources involved in the deal told Barcelona that this was much better value for the club than going into, both in terms of the money raised and the time frame involved. Talks were held with different potential funders, including CVC. The final auction was held with help from Key Capital Partners, which is also involved in the stalled Super League plan.
Font questioned why Barca had not entered the CVC arrangement last summer — “that way, Leo Messi could have stayed,” he claimed. He also used the word “mortgage” to describe the TV rights sale to Sixth Street. “If you are going against the clock, you have less capacity to negotiate,” he said. “This is not something we had contemplated.”