[Sport] The director of Barça sections: "We have no regrets about Heurtel"

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Albert Soler, director of Barcelona sections, was the first person in charge of the club to speak about the 'Heurtel case'. "The prestige of the club is above all," he said in an official speech, as it is the same thing that coach Sarunas Jasikevicius said before the start of the Clásico this Sunday against Madrid.

However, the Barça manager went much further to assure that they do not have "any kind of remorse in having to say that we have left a player abandoned. Far from it." Soler once again stressed that, as the club explained in a statement, Heurtel "at no time was left unattended. His agent was with him, the club took over the hotel and the return trip."

We are not going to compensate the player if he intends to stay in an ACB team "
Albert Soler, director of Barcelona sections

For the director of Barça sections, "from the moment in which Thomas Heurtel is informed that he will not be part of the discipline of the FC Barcelona first team, it is also decided that he will not be summoned to the following matches, the de la Penya last Sunday and Efes in Istanbul on Tuesday. " And Soler explains the version of the facts: "The player was negotiating his departure with other clubs and asked us to travel with the team's charter in order to reach an agreement with one of those teams. We had no problem. At that time, he continued in the team's discipline and did not live with the team. It is true that he trained that day because, since he was in Istanbul, what he did was train with us, but at no time did he follow any team routine, much less as a player From there, our surprise was when we found out that he was not negotiating with any Turkish team but with a Spanish team, from the ACB, and we considered that it made no sense that he had to return to us since he was doing some personal arrangements ".

The manager makes it clear that "Thomas Heurtel no longer counts for the discipline of the FC Barcelona first team and, therefore, the most logical thing would be to find an agreed exit with the player so that before January 6, which is when it closes the Euroleague transfer window, he was out of the club. " And he assures that "at no time and in no case will we compensate the player if he intends to stay in a Spanish team of the ACB. We will try to find a team outside the ACB. What is clear is that the prestige of the club It is above all and what we are not going to waste the club's money in a way that we consider is not the correct one in this situation.