Main League Soccer membership Inter Miami fell underneath hearth Tuesday morning when it was announced that Raul Sanllehi, its President of Soccer Operations, was leaving his publish after simply seven months.
Sanllehi, a former director of soccer at Arsenal and Barcelona, assumed Miami’s President of Soccer Operations position in the summertime of 2024. The membership confirmed that he can be “re-assigned” inside the group.
Miami claims that Sanllehi’s sudden departure was intentional. “Raul’s transfer was pre-planned, in coordination with the closing of the window on the finish of January and the numerous actions that the staff has with the Membership World Cup, World Cup and different issues pertaining to institutional relations,” Miami said in an official statement to Give Me Sport.
However sources across the membership reported a verbal disagreement between Sanllehi and Messi only a few brief days earlier than the announcement.