Laporta opened his lectures on Household, Mirotic and Jasikevicius

Barcelona President Juan Laporta was invited to a TV show in Spain and spoke, among other things, about the club’s basketball department. The Blaugrana strongman referred to the cases of Nikola Mirotic and Sarunas Jasikevicius but also next season’s budget.

“We cannot keep to a budget of 40 million due to financial fair play. It’s not about increasing revenue, we need to lower wages.”

SIn the case of Nikola Mirotic, we had a contract that was unsustainable and we are discussing with him shifting the high salary a bit.

Jasikevicius is very popular in Barcelona. He personally had a good relationship with him, aBut unity is above the players, coaches and everyone else. His contract has expired. He was probably the highest paid manager in Europe. I don’t want to say more about that, but Barcelona can’t be cornered when negotiating with anyone. We came to the conclusion that an extension made neither financial nor sporting sense.

We have faith in Roger Grimmow. I like making decisions like this to create chances that brought titles to Barcelona. We will have a budget of around 30 million, which is very good. There are players who want to be in the EuroLeague.”