The Raluy circus does not have as many pirouettes, tightrope walkers, fairs, plot twists and surprises as FC Barcelona. In few places like the Blaugrana club, so much news, confusion, intrigue, emotions and passions are so diverse. And there is always an “even more difficult”. Always, a “don’t go, yet, because there are more”, as the Superr atolí cartoons said, a childhood friend of those of us who are already old or directly going bald.
As if there weren’t any to keep the benefits offered by Barça. Now, it is announced that Mateu Alemany will leave his current duties and the club when the transfer market ends, on September 1.
But we hadn’t seen this story yet, had we? Yes. The first time was on May 2, after ten o’clock at night and when Barça had almost finished the League after winning against Osasuna. The second, Wednesday, August 16, in the heat of the day and at lunchtime. If then more than one had indigestion at dinner, this time they were disturbed during lunch.
Spinning very thin, Barça refers to the first statement, the one of May 2, to transmit coherence to the story. In the spring, Mateu Alemany had to leave because he had a very good offer from Aston Villa.
Weeks later, he backtracked on the farewell and himself announced verbally, without a statement from the club, that he remained in Barcelona’s sports structure as one of the main characters. A decision that was celebrated with loud cheers by the club’s board, with Laporta at the helm, and seconded with applause by the first team coach himself, Xavi Hernández.
The coach has always had good words for Alemany and also for Jordi Cruyff, who stopped being the technical secretary at the end of last season.
But, three months later, Barcelona made it official that they are leaving the sporting direction to Deco, for three seasons. A Deco that has been participating in all the sporting decisions of the organization for weeks.
The Barcelona club replaces Alemany, whom it has considered essential when it comes to conscientiously negotiating, for example, with LaLiga, the difficult issue of financial fair play, and in whom Laporta had conveyed the utmost confidence since incorporating him into the electoral candidacy to return to the seat.
Take the Deco baton, which the current president signed as a footballer for Barça in the summer of 2004, represented by Jorge Mendes. In recent years, Deco, a fantastic and competitive midfielder during his time as a player, has been in charge of a representation agency that, for example, managed the designs of the Blaugrana player Raphinha. He had to lower the shutters of the company to enter as a senior executive in Barcelona.
It cannot be said that the Barcelona board’s bet is not firm. A good three-year contract and full responsibility. The task is not simple, starting with these two remaining market weeks. At Barça, anything is possible. Maybe that’s part of their DNA too.
