The signing of midfielder Oriol Romeu, who will be presented today at the LA Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles as a new Barcelona player, has generated unrest in Girona. Even also the mayor of the city, Lluc Salellas, who criticized the movement of the Barça club on social networks: “Barça, in short, let it do, it will become small.”
Romeu, 31, a footballer trained in the lower categories of FC Barcelona, ??was a benchmark for the fans and a key piece in the schemes of Míchel’s team, which he joined a year ago from English Middlesbrough. The mayor of Girona acknowledged, on his Twitter account, that the rojiblanco team will miss Romeu, “a great footballer and person” to whom he wished luck.
Barcelona wanted to respond to the mayor with a statement from the institutional vice-president, Elena Fort, who spoke to the media at the welcome dinner for the Barcelona expedition in Los Angeles, the city where Barcelona has started its tour of the United States. hand to Girona. Oriol Romeu is a boy who wanted to return home as he has done many other times. And Barça has loaned a player to Girona with very good conditions”, said Fort, referring to Pablo Torre.
“We don’t want any confrontation between Barça and the people of Girona”, added the institutional vice-president of Barça, who explained that they will invite Salellas to come to the Barça field when Girona plays either on Montjuïc or in the future Spotify Camp Nou.
The welcome dinner was held at the Agua Viva restaurant, run by chef José Andrés. A hundred guests attended, including representatives from Goldman Sachs and also Oriol Rosell, a Los Angeles Galaxy player trained at Barça and the first homegrown player to bet on MLS. Rosell has exchanged shirts with the Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, who gave a thank you speech in English.
