Shakespeare wrote that we are of the same stuff that dreams are made of. Emilio Salgari made us dream of exotic paradises in our childhood and he never left Italy. And he even invented the trade of a merchant mariner when he never sailed the seas. We dream, but our reality sometimes gives us a rude awakening. Returning to Salgari, he wrote more than a hundred successful manuscripts, but his publisher exploited him miserably and condemned him to live in poverty. And he did not know how to face it with courage, as Sandokan, his Malaysian tiger, would have done. So you need to know how to manage dreams just like life, being clear that not all of them come true, which does not prevent us from fighting with all our effort.
Look at Jan Laporta, who, in the midst of the economic and reputational storm, has said that he will do the impossible to get Messi back. Rafa Yuste, the alter ego of the president, has advanced that there are already contacts. And in the meantime, the club has asked Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan for 1.5 billion to finance Espai Barça, at the same time that it is obliged to reduce the wage bill by nearly 200 million. The Barça tetris is almost impossible to solve, but still we dream of Leo.
Laporta is like Mago Pop, who from day one has told members that anything is possible. I have reasonable doubts about whether he is an illusion generator or simply an illusionist, but Antonio DÃaz already headlined his show at the theater Victòria Nada es imposible and was able to make a helicopter disappear before the eyes of the audience. And if Mago Pop is already on Broadway, why can’t Laporta take us to seventh heaven?
It’s been a while since we club members have understood anything. Or, to be more precise, we don’t know everything about the entity. We have traded faith for control, the CEO for a conjurer. Nothing here, nothing there and any day Messi appears on the grass. Barcelonaism is linked to a dream, despite living a nightmare. But, alert, Jardiel Poncela already warned: in life only a few dreams come true, the vast majority of dreams are snored.
