The former candidate for the presidency of FC Barcelona Víctor Font has criticized the institutional situation and the management of Joan Laporta in an open letter to the members of the Blaugrana club. In it, he has presented himself as a future alternative to the current board and has asked for a “refoundation of the club” to straighten the culé course and preserve its ownership model.
“We want to appeal to all the existing talent in Barcelona fans to work together and make possible the alternative that the club needs. If we cannot help those who currently have the responsibility of government, it is essential that when the time comes this transversal, unifying and of unity is ready. With a solvent plan that has the best in each key area of ??our club,” Font explained in the letter.
The “refoundation” that the former candidate proposes would go through different initiatives: “change the management model”, “professionalize the institution”, “modernize governance” and provide Barcelona “with real and effective external control mechanisms.”
“It is urgent to turn the page on the 2003 regime: we must stop managing the club as it was done in the 80s of the last century,” stressed Font, who has criticized Laporta for “managing Barça with friends and family”, not having ” ability to retain prestigious executives” and “go hand in hand with R. Madrid and Florentino Pérez on many institutional issues.”
The businessman from Granollers has also stressed that during the current mandate the dramatic situation that was inherited at the beginning has been “further aggravated.” In this sense, he highlighted the delicate economic circumstances that the Blaugrana team is going through: “We have generated €1,000 million in operating losses, we have sold assets to external partners, some of them unreliable, of dubious reputation, who do not pay what they owe and that have not contributed any value”.
Regarding the social area, he considered that “the club is governed with its back to the owners” and that “the feeling of resignation has spread among the social mass.” Font has identified the telematic assemblies, the “little transparency”, the lack of incentives for participation and the lack of “sensitivity for those who travel or go up to Montjuïc” as some of the causes of the regret.
In the letter he also highlighted the poor results in the sports field, far from “the expectations generated.” A situation that he has linked to the management of the club: “The changes in the sports management, signings that were not a priority and poor economic management that has tied us hand and foot, has not helped at all.” “We will never know how the first team would have worked if the management had been professional and everything had fallen into place,” he added.
