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Deco on Joan Garcia: “We made a decision to sign a young goalkeeper, it means that he can play tomorrow or be on the bench and play in a year or two. We have some expectations with Joan that then have to be fulfilled. Everyone who enters here starts from scratch, no one arrives with an advantage over the others.”
“I have great respect for Marc, but with Joan we had to make a decision for the present and the future. The coach, then, will have to decide. When a player really wants to leave, it’s very complicated for us to stop him. But this is not an issue at the moment.”
“We saw a market opportunity in the present and future” and “there are not many young players of Joan Garcia’s level.” “If we don’t make decisions and leave it for the future, when we want to make them or we can’t do it or it can cost us much more. There came a time when we had to decide because otherwise the player would have gone somewhere else.”
“Liverpool has Alisson, 32, and they signed one of the best goalkeepers in the League, Mamardashvili, 24. If you have players from 32-33 years old you have to try to make a squad plan for the future.”
Deco revealed before detailing the negotiations with Joan Garcia: “We never talked to him before the end of the League. We told his representative that, if the player was open to the Barça move, we would like to talk to him. And that’s how it was at the end of the course. We sat down with him and explained the idea to him.”
Deco assured that he does not intend to talk to Ter Stegen to analyze his situation. “I don’t have to talk to him. My obligation is to make the best possible team for the coach. This doesn’t involve me. In addition, there is no contract that says that you are going to play all the time. From here it is the coach who makes his decisions and each player then has their ambitions.”
Deco confirmed that Szczesny will renew and stated that Iñaki Peña “also has a contract.” In addition, the sporting director also confirmed the ongoing talks with Nico Williams and that the Catalan club is trying to make the deal happen.