Tag: Eric Abidal
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Setien replacement: Abidal offers Laurent Blanc to Barca board
Barcelona sporting director Eric Abidal has offered Laurent Blanc to the board. L’Equipe says Abidal has been instructed by the board to find a replacement for Quique Setien and his No1 choice as a successor is Blanc. Abidal has argued to board members and president Josep Maria Bartomeu that Blanc, as a former player, knows…
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Ex-president did not illegally buy liver for Abidal, say Barcelona
Barcelona have denied that former president Sandro Rosell illegally bought a liver for ex-France defender Eric Abidal. Abidal, 38, who is now the club’s technical secretary, had a transplant in 2012 after a tumour was found in his liver. Reports in Spain claim Rosell, who was arrested for money-laundering in 2017, purchased the organ. Barcelona…