The Catalan club removed Pere Gratacos from his board role for some innocuous quotes on Friday, but are still stalling on the Argentine's new deal.
Another day, another public relations disaster surrounding Barcelona and Lionel Messi. The Catalan club took the drastic step of removing director Pere Gratacos on Friday for some seemingly innocuous comments about the Argentine attacker. But they really need to get their priorities right.
Gratacos was Barca's representative at the draw for the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey and after the Blaugrana were paired with Real Sociedad in the last eight, the club's director of institutional relations was asked about that and some other matters concerning the team.
In a question about Messi's performance against Athletic Club on Wednesday and a new deal for the 29-year-old, he declined to discuss contract negotiations but said of the Argentine: "It wasn’t only Leo [who took Barca through].
Leo is a person who is among the most important in the team, but it was the whole team that made it through [to the quarter-finals].
And he added: "Leo, without Neymar, without [Luis] Suarez, without [Andres] Iniesta, without [Gerard] Pique and the rest of the players, wouldn’t be such a good player. But obviously Messi is the best player."
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