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 | Laporta: Eto'o forced us to pick Ibrahimovic2-03-2011 |
Former Barcelona president Joan Laporta explained how in 2009 it came to buying Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Inter Milan, which will ultimately bring huge losses to the club of around 42 million euros for just one season.
Catalans gave 66 million euros for the Swede (46 million + Samuel Eto'o, who was valued at 20 million euros), but one year later - in the summer of 2010, sold him to Milan for only 24 million, after Ibra could not be imposed on the Camp Nou.
Here's how it came to buying Ibrahimovic in the transaction by the exchange of Eto'o as Laporta: "When we won the treble in 2009, the coaching staff wanted a few changes in the dressing room to help the team ethic."
"So they fled to the exchange of Samuel Eto'o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, transfer, who at that time was requested by Josep Guardiola."
"In addition Swede, the other two options were Diego Forlan and David Villa. Eto'o did not want to go to Real Madrid as preferred Inter. Valencia wanted too much for Villa, while Atletico Madrid had no intention of selling Forlan. "
"The problem there was that solid Eto'o did not want the transfer to Valencia or Atletico Madrid. In fact, the only club that was lucky he was Inter. "
"We had no other alternatives to satisfy the desire of the coach and his technical staff," said Joan Laporta told Ace "on the subject with extremely unsuccessful attracting Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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