Joan Laporta has responded to the speculation that linked Man Utd with a gargantuan bid for Ansu Fati this summer.
Barcelona spent the vast majority of their summer desperately trying to wrest their enormous wage bill under control. The club’s debt topped £1 billion and continued to rise with each passing week. As a result, the LaLiga powerhouse was forced into several moves in the window they did not wish to make.
However, one potential deal mooted throughout the summer that did not materialise surrounded Spanish wunderkind, Ansu Fati. The 18-year-old has since assumed Messi’s No. 10 shirt, indicating how highly he is thought of at the Camp Nou.
But given his incredible potential, reports swirled during the window of a blockbuster €150m move to Man Utd. Barcelona’s financial woes would have been eased significantly had such a deal come to fruition.
Nonetheless, current Barca president Laporta has now responded to the Fati rumours, insisting a summer sale was never on the agenda.
“We never put him up for sale,” Laporta told Spanish outlet Cadena SER (via the Manchester Evening News). “Another thing is that it appeared in a newspaper that an English club was going to make an offer.

“This offer never came. Ansu was brave because he accepted the ’10’, but he only accepted it if the captains gave him the green light.”