Real Madrid: Laporta’s revelations about the Güler failure

A Clasico on the transfer window! In recent weeks, Real Madrid and Barça have clashed in the transfer market to try to obtain the signature of Turkish nugget from Fenerbahce, Arda Güler. And after long negotiations, and while at first everything seemed to be over for him to settle in Catalonia, he finally settled in the Spanish capital for a transfer estimated at more than 20 million euros. A nice blow for the Merengue, a disappointment for the Blaugrana, to which Joan Laporta returned.

“They paid a lot more”

The president of the club gave himself up in the columns of Mundo Deportivoexplaining in particular that he had not wanted to enter into a bidding war: “Arda Güler? We had an agreement with the player and we were ready to pay 17.5 million euros to Fenerbahçe. But other clubs as Real Madrid came in and paid a lot more. That’s when we thought we shouldn’t get into a bidding war. We could have gone into the bidding for Güler, but we We have decided not to do it. We have a certain line and we don’t cross it. Neither with Arda nor with other players who want to come to Barca.”