Joan Laporta, the man who is convinced Lionel Messi will stay at Barcelona beyond the end of the season, became the club's new president on Sunday night recording a landslide election victory. Laporta, who won two Champions Leagues and four leagues when president between 2003 and 2010 polled 30,184 votes. Laporta won the election comfortably over Victor Font (pictured) and Toni FreixaFreixa (left) at the Nou Camp earlier on during Barcelona presidential election dayLaporta is backing Ronald Koeman to remain as coach and will not look to persuade Arteta to leave Arsenal. Laporta's victory came after Barcelona got themselves right back into the title race this weekend. One of Laporta's priorities is to try and keep Messi at the club beyond his current deal

Source: Daily Mail March 07, 2021 22:01 UTC