Several pillars at FC Barcelona support the famous motto “More than a club”. His Catalan affiliation, especially in the most difficult social and political moments; his way of playing, which relates success to an attractive and very specific proposal; the multi-sport nature of the club, with a few professional sections that are as successful or more successful than football; and its ownership model, still in the hands of its partners with all the nuances you want.
When crises intensify, and we are currently witnessing one of the most serious in the history of the entity, buried or latent debates like unspeakable taboos emerge to the surface, accelerating the heartbeat of Barcelona fans, a social mass that is usually noisy and committed but in Lately lethargic, one would say exhausted from being different. Through that crack, an economic discussion has begun to creep in, because if this crisis has several aspects, the main one is undoubtedly the financial one.
With multimillion-dollar loans to be repaid, a new stadium to be built, a rampant debt and a management, inherited and present, unable at the moment to turn the numbers around, voices are emerging that propose a change. From continuing as always although replacing and sophisticating the management and executive teams, to getting rid of manias and selling the club at auction to the highest bidder, through hybrid solutions that do not completely deviate from the traditional model to be able to continue saying “More than a club ” with his mouth wide open and not with a look of circumstance.
Today La Vanguardia publishes the proposals of two Barcelona fans whose opinion matters. On the one hand, Jaume Roures, a producer in the audiovisual world, always linked to the club in one way or another, who has even gone so far as to provide coverage for the board in the form of an endorsement. On the other hand, Evarist Murtra, former director with boards of different ideological types, respected for two suggestions that changed the course of the club: Pep Guardiola as coach and Unicef ??as sponsor. Here are their interesting approaches.
