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Barcelona sporting director Deco has taken a dim view of former presidential candidate Víctor Font’s comments and plans to take legal action against him. Font suggested during an interview this week that there was clandestine business in the operation to bring Vítor Roque to the club.
According to MD, Deco has decided to take legal action against Font, presumably for defamation, for his comments on RAC1. Font said the following.
“What is not normal generates suspicion. Let them come out and explain it. If Barça planned and was transparent there would be no commotion like the one that happened with Barça Studios or the signing of Vitor Roque, since it is not known what interests were behind it.”
Font also noted that Deco was Roque’s agent, and then made the signing when he became sports director, which as noted, was actually André Cury and not Deco. As reported by La Vanguardia (via Relevo), Roque was offered to Barcelona for the first time in January 2023, when then-sports director Mateu Alemany and sports director Jordi Cruyff rejected the deal for sporting and financial reasons.
Víctor Font (leader of the Sí al Futur campaign): “The situation with President Laporta is worse than with Bartomeu, the debt is greater, the income is the same and we spend more or less the same.” Through @sport
— Barcacentre (@barcacentre) January 16, 2025
Their report claims that Deco was working for the club at the time as a scout and recommended the signing of Roque, and then, when he took over at Barcelona, he activated the operation again. So far there is no confirmation about the internal events in Barcelona, but it is clear that Deco disputes this version of events.
The 19-year-old set Barcelona back 30 million euros, plus another 31 million in variables, although none has been achieved since his time in the Catalan capital. Roque has since been loaned to Real Betis, who have a €25 million option to buy 80% of the forward’s rights next summer. It has been a difficult time in Europe so far for Roque, despite some spells of form at Betis.
