When Sandro Rosell was president of Barcelona from 2010-14, he allowed Qatar Airways to be their front-of-shirt sponsor, replacing charity Unicef. Laporta was critical of Rosell for that decision, saying “you had to choose between Qatar and corrupt or between Unicef and clean”.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta defended his administration’s handling of the Dani Olmo case and claimed on Tuesday that there was a campaign to tarnish the club’s image. Laporta said in a news conference that a portion of the media and opposition members wanted the club to fail in its bid to register the Spain midfielder,