Vote Leo: Barca’s Camp Nou may very well be RENAMED after Messi as presidential candidate guarantees to signal Neymar IF striker ends lawsuit

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A vote shall be held on renaming Barcelona’s Camp Nou house after Lionel Messi below daring plans drawn up by entrepreneur Emili Rousaud, who has mentioned he’ll signal Neymar as considered one of two “high gamers” ought to he turn out to be membership president.

The extraordinary thought implies that Messi might have Barcelona’s stadium named after him earlier than the top of this season if Rousaud is elected, renaming the membership’s iconic floor for the primary time because it was in-built 1957.

Businessman Rousaud made the pledge in the identical week as rumors once more rang out that Barca’s all-time high scorer is able to depart Catalonia, with Premier League giants Manchester Metropolis the frontrunners to lure him from the membership the place he has spent his complete profession.

“We are going to maintain a referendum to vary the identify of the stadium to Camp Nou – Leo Messi,” Rousaud advised reporters, making his case for changing vastly unpopular outgoing president Josep Maria Bartomeu within the elections in January.

“I do that out of enthusiasm, dedication and expertise. I need to rebuild the crew, the membership and the financial system. I’ll give my pores and skin to make Barca, as soon as once more, the most effective crew on the planet.”

A part of Rousaud’s reign would contain the return of Neymar, the Brazil striker who grew to become the world’s most costly participant when he left the membership for Paris St. Germain in 2017 and has since turn out to be embroiled in a authorized battle with Barca over hundreds of thousands of which he claims are owed to him.

Neymar has been repeatedly linked with a return to Spain regardless of the dispute, and is considered one of two big signings that Rousaud has claimed to have lined up as he seems to be to win over voters.

“We will signal two high gamers,” he revealed. “Certainly one of them is Neymar. We’re working to convey him again to Barcelona if he withdraws the lawsuit he has in opposition to the membership.

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“We hope to have the ability to announce quickly the identify of the opposite big-name participant we need to convey. It is not going to depart anybody detached. We now have a direct line to the participant.”

In feedback that didn’t appear to bode properly for brand new supervisor Ronald Koeman, Rousaud added that he needed a number of the stars of the membership’s current Champions League successes, together with Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and Carles Puyol, to return and create “a powerful hyperlink with the membership, the crew and [academy] La Masia.”

Koeman has presided over solely three wins in eight Liga matches this season, leaving Barcelona languishing in 13th within the desk and the coach’s future unsure after Rousaud mentioned he had approached a brand new technical director.

“We respect Koeman so much,” he remarked. “But when he would not proceed, we have now closed in on one [coach] who’s energetic and coaching top-of-the-line groups in Europe.

“We now have the most effective technical director in place, however we can not announce him but as a result of he’s energetic [at another club].”

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