Ahead of this weekend’s Clásico, Barcelona president Joan Laporta has raised the temperature by criticizing Real Madrid’s transfer strategy of signing “very expensive players who aren’t delivering the expected results.” As he explosively claimed: “More than one rooster in the same henhouse can’t work.”
Eternal rivals, the bad blood between Spain’s—and the world’s—two biggest clubs has increased in recent times amid the ongoing ‘Negreira case’ and an open war of words between the two presidents Laporta and Florentino Pérez.