Barcelona president Joan Laporta revealed a souring of his and the club’s relationship with Lionel Messi when he left Catalonia in 2021 but insisted that those tensions have since been put to bed.
Laporta was at the helm of Barcelona when Messi was first given his senior debut by the Catalans two decades ago, forming a strong working relationship with the Argentine maestro as he rapidly established himself as the greatest player ever to turn out for the club. Laporta stepped down from his post in 2010 before returning 11 years later to find his boyhood team mired in financial issues.
