Barça president Joan Laporta will appear this Thursday at 11:30 a.m. in the Auditori 1899 at the Camp Nou to explain structural changes to the Barça club. The announcement came early this morning through a press release that caught everyone in Barcelona by surprise.
In the letter, the Blaugrana club did not give clues or details about the modifications that the Blaugrana president had planned to announce. However, shortly after another press release the club announced that Eduard Romeu, vice president of the Club’s Economic Area, has presented his resignation to president Joan Laporta, citing incompatibility with his full dedication to his professional task.
According to the statement, the president “Laporta has accepted the resignation while thanking him for his work at the head of the Economic Area, focused on the development of the viability plan launched during this mandate and which has managed to reverse the financial situation of the company. institution”.
Romeu was responsible for developing the viability plan launched from the beginning of the mandate. His resignation occurs in the midst of a complex economic situation for the entity and the construction of the new stadium.
Romeu’s arrival as economic vice president to the club occurred a few days after Joan Laporta’s victory in the last elections held in March 2021 after the unexpected resignation of Jaume Giró, the strong man in the economic area of ??the candidacy.
He entered the entity thanks to José Elías, owner of Audax Renovables, who contributed 17 million euros to the guarantee of 124.6 that Barça gave to LaLiga in order to be invested as the new management body of FC Barcelona. At that time, Romeu was the economic vice president of this company dedicated to renewable energies.
With his endorsement, Elías allowed Romeu to fulfill his lifelong dream – to be a director of the club he loves – and he also became economic vice president of the Barça entity.
In the first three years of Laporta’s mandate, this culé from birth became one of the main people responsible for trying to turn around the difficult economic situation that the Barça club is going through.
Eduard Romeu (Barcelona, ??1968) has a degree in Economic Sciences and previously worked at Banco de Santander and Bankia. In 2015 he became the corporate director of Audax and was subsequently vice president of the board of directors of the aforementioned group.
The vice president decided to dedicate himself full time to his work at Barcelona last summer, due to the magnitude of the different economic challenges that the entity has, immersed in a complex situation and with the remodeling of the ‘Espai Barça’ underway.
In fact, he has been the key man in the project and especially in the financial structure of the operation of the new Camp Nou. Romeu’s goodbye is one more farewell in the economic area since the beginning of Laporta’s mandate.
The first of them was Ferran Reverter, who left his position as executive director in February 2022, eleven months after taking office, due to disagreements in the management of the contract with Spotify.
A month ago, the corporate director and fundamental player in the financing of Espai Barça, Maribel Meléndez, also presented her resignation citing “personal reasons.”
In the Espai Barça area, the manager Jordi Llauradó had previously been dismissed, as well as the director of the Patrimonio area, Ramón Ramírez.
