On this same website we read in a text by our colleague Edurne Concejo that the Barça women’s team can win the League, the Cup and the Champions League in one month. In the newspaper archive it is hardly difficult to find the prequel to this triumphant Barça in its male version, the one that was capable of combining titles and good play and making the fans fall in love with it in all ways, the aesthetic, the results, the sentimental and even the identity. This is understood as a unique and attractive way of doing things.
The new alliance between Laporta and Xavi does not sound like this or that project because it lacks football and has plenty of explanations, a trace that you usually leave when you want to convey truth without having it. We are at the end of April, there is nothing to gain and the president and the coach repeat the word “excitement” as the main argument to justify the continuity of their tandem. Theirs is a smoke that mixes the high that the Paris match caused (real but ephemeral) with the supposed support of a social mass that everyone knows has stayed at home, represented in Montjuïc by a small command of incombustible optimists. mixed with thousands of tourists willing to pay a fortune to ride the wave or whatever it takes. Real Barcelona fandom is not that. Nor the hater of social networks, but the intermediate point of that mix, a standard fan between indignant and resigned who only hopes that when he can return to the Camp Nou they offer him a good show and some truth.
What is the truth? Not lying with the best player of all time, Leo Messi; not signing sterilized cats at wild tiger prices; not raising the bar of expectations above possibilities; Stop repeating that the money will come until it doesn’t… in short, treat the Barcelona fan as if he were an adult and not a doll with a rag brain.
Too many lies have been told in recent times. Suppose we end up forgetting them. Suppose that Laporta and Xavi look in the mirror and the images returned take them back to the times when there was nothing more credible than that Barça of theirs. The fans need to fall in love again. As much as being told the truth once and for all.
