In the middle of the Camp Nou matches, the voice of Xavi Hernández is heard over the loudspeakers while Barcelona fans of all ages appear on the screen saying they are from Barça. At the end of the announcement, the club’s coach corrected them: “You are not from Barça, you are from Barça.”
The campaign is well done, even if it is not true. As partners, we send less and less, because we are not consulted on important issues and we are unaware of almost everything that happens in their offices. Thus, the statutes or the final proposal of the stadium have been changed without anyone asking us anything.
And when we found out that the club has been paying a crazy amount for years to whoever was the vice president of the referees, the Barcelona president’s first response was that this is information that appears to destabilize Barça when it is leading the League.
It is a mistake to return to victimhood. In Manchester, Jan Laporta commented that in Catalonia the Negreira case is not worrying, that this issue is only discussed in Madrid. Sure? Does anyone at the club consult the international press? Has anyone seen what they say about the L’Equipe, Il Corriere della Sera or A Bola case? The prosecutor’s office must decide in a few days whether to investigate Barça’s payments to the vice president of the referees. It would be interesting to know what Goldman Sachs thinks of this story so as not to sleep.
For years, Barça fans have been very proud of the club model, but it is being seen that the governance model is not enough for an entity that bills billions. When we thought that with the new CEO the club was going to function like a multinational, the president removed him from his responsibility and said that he would manage it as a family business.
At a time as delicate as the one the club is experiencing, with a very high debt to face, it is not worth trusting everything for the ball to enter. You have to be very transparent, work rigorously and give coherent explanations. Laporta knows how to spread enthusiasm, but reality sometimes prevails over emotions. Or do we not remember when at the beginning of the season he wanted to make us dream of the sextet?
