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Laporta dodges inquiries on Cristiano Ronaldo after his supper with Jorge Mendes
On Wednesday, Barcelona introduced new marking Franck Kessie and president Joan Laporta talked about the club's activities during summer move window.
At the public interview, one of the astonishing names which came up was that of Cristiano Ronaldo. After the previous Real Madrid star communicated his craving to leave Manchester United this late spring, the Camp Nou has arisen as a supposed conceivable objective.
Ronaldo's representative is Jorge Mendes and Laporta conceded to having eaten with him as of late however wouldn't remark on whether they had talked about Ronaldo.
"I won't discuss the players we talked about at supper," said Laporta.
"It's continuously intriguing to converse with him and learn about specific players available."
Another talk including the Catalan club and Manchester United focuses upon midfielder Frenkie De Jong, however Laporta strongly implied that the Dutchman isn't available to be purchased. Not this window, in any event.
"He's a Barcelona player," said Laporta.
"Furthermore, except if we are keen on selling him later on, he's a Barcelona player. We would rather not sell him.
"We realize he has offers. We would rather not sell at the present time, yet it could intrigue us."
As far as the expected outgoings, Laporta wouldn't be drawn a lot of by the same token.
One player who is half in and half out is Ousmane Dembele, who is in fact a free specialist however stays in conversations over a potential expansion.
"There's no date set [as a deadline]," Laporta said. "We're in a questionable circumstance since we're attempting to make signings and we can't.
"We are working by conversing with players who interest us, advising them to hold on until we can sign.
"Dembele has a proposition, they answered we're actually talking. Furthermore, we're ready to continue to talk as long as it intrigues us to do as such."
Laporta proceeded to demand that there is no cutoff time for Dembele, however that time is a variable and that Barcelona should take different actions on the off chance that he chooses to continue on.
At one point, they might need to cut ties, however they aren't ready to say when that may be.
Yet again concerning approaches, everything relies upon shuffling the club's funds and getting new speculation.
Laporta is certain soon they will actually want to enter the market as areas of strength for a, however at this moment they need to lay the foundation quietly and stand by.
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