20 - Dani Olmo

[Zynaro]

Font is the most knowledgeable candidate, knows how to run a business, and has a vision for the future

Laporta is a politician who is selling nostalgia and dreams to the sheep fanbase,
has no business expertise whatsoever, he just stumbles into decisions without planning or vision
and his methods are dated

Bartomeu also has a successful business. And you know how his presidency turned out.

 

[Ter Stature]

Begiristain would easily be the best option, in any position.

 

[TheStig]

Bartomeu also has a successful business. And you know how his presidency turned out.

So is Perez, your point?

 

[The Unsackable]

Not really, those people would have demanded serious wages

Of course they would, but we would save at least 100 Million because now we paid both the Transfer AND their wages...

I despise Mou but what he did with "retirement home" Inter was fantastic and example that you can use cheap old players to save a lot of money...

People here wrote then that "we are not beggars to grab Free Agents and old players"... I wonder if they still think that we aren't beggars...

 

[Windhook]

I can't believe what I'm reading. Laporta has no idea of how to run a club? He's been navigating a sinking ship for the last 3 years. A lot of measures were taken, some painful, but the club is on the right path of recovery. It feels that way. I have a lot of criticism on Laporta on the sporting side, but financially credit should be given where credit is due.

Victor Font is not a rich man. Comparisons with Florentino Perez are like comparing yourself to a bug. Perez also has political influence, he's part of the deep state, if you do the research. Fonts and Laportas are restaurant level of entrepreuners in that picture.

 

[Birdy]

Bartomeu also has a successful business. And you know how his presidency turned out.

With the small difference that Font is a successful entrepreneur, with an important name in the market,
while Bartomeu is a 'nobody' businessman

I can't believe what I'm reading. Laporta has no idea of how to run a club? He's been navigating a sinking ship for the last 3 years. A lot of measures were taken, some painful, but the club is on the right path of recovery. It feels that way. I have a lot of criticism on Laporta on the sporting side, but financially credit should be given where credit is due.

Victor Font is not a rich man. Comparisons with Florentino Perez are like comparing yourself to a bug. Perez also has political influence, he's part of the deep state, if you do the research. Fonts and Laportas are restaurant level of entrepreuners in that picture.

'Navigating the sinking ship' means any of the following:
- saying 'leo we love you' hugging his shirt, and then letting him hang dry the last days of the window?
- buying players he is not even sure he can register, and letting them find out the last moment?
- still giving the fat Bartomeu contracts that bankrupted the club to his new signings, like the ones he gave to Lewa and Gundo?
- saying 'Barca are back' financially tons of times, when we are not even in the 1:1 rule?
- pulling 'levers' (and thus jeopardizing the long-term financial independency of the club) to make a 'team that can win everything', and giving the decision on how to spend that money to mighty SD Xavi Hernandez?

I can write as many and more, but there is no point.
Everyone who has eyes, has seen what a mess Laporta is

Thing is you can't cleanly separate the sporting from the financial side, as you try.
If his 'lever' policy were successful, he would have created the conditions for the team to dominate for 10 years, and hope to stabilize financially by then.
If on the other hand he chose not to pull levers, club would have accepted 4-5 difficult years with minimal trophies for the sake of a financially 'clean slate' right after

Unfortunately, for him, and for all of us, he opted for both levers and questionable sporting decisions that have the REAL possibility of arriving at a future where both the team fails sportingly and its financial independency is gone

 

[jamrock]

ONLY way font should ever touch the club is after Laporta, so he/we can benefit from the Laporta magic for a few years before his policies are fully implemented and eventually turn shit and we are rosell and barto'ed again.

only this time we won't have Laporta to put things right for a 3rd time and some will get to see their ultimate dream come true.

The arsenalification of Barcelona.

 

[pangaea]

The arsenalification of Barcelona.

Like that one...

 

[FCBarca]

The corporate candidates are disastrous

 

[Windhook]

With the small difference that Font is a successful entrepreneur, with an important name in the market,
while Bartomeu is a 'nobody' businessman



'Navigating the sinking ship' means any of the following:
- saying 'leo we love you' hugging his shirt, and then letting him hang dry the last days of the window?
- buying players he is not even sure he can register, and letting them find out the last moment?
- still giving the fat Bartomeu contracts that bankrupted the club to his new signings, like the ones he gave to Lewa and Gundo?
- saying 'Barca are back' financially tons of times, when we are not even in the 1:1 rule?
- pulling 'levers' (and thus jeopardizing the long-term financial independency of the club) to make a 'team that can win everything', and giving the decision on how to spend that money to mighty SD Xavi Hernandez?

I can write as many and more, but there is no point.
Everyone who has eyes, has seen what a mess Laporta is

Thing is you can't cleanly separate the sporting from the financial side, as you try.
If his 'lever' policy were successful, he would have created the conditions for the team to dominate for 10 years, and hope to stabilize financially by then.
If on the other hand he chose not to pull levers, club would have accepted 4-5 difficult years with minimal trophies for the sake of a financially 'clean slate' right after

Unfortunately, for him, and for all of us, he opted for both levers and questionable sporting decisions that have the REAL possibility of arriving at a future where both the team fails sportingly and its financial independency is gone

Let's run this once again:

1) Font is a successful entrepreneur - yeah, Dubai connections. Why not sell the club to Saudis?
2) Already said I disapprove of much of Laporta's sporting sides.
3) Laporta is not handing big contracts like Barto did. The only exclusion is Lewa and remember we were desperate to sign him.
4) "Barca are back" actually secured the Nike deal.
5) As point 2) some things had to be done that were painful. Nothing to do with independence of the club.

 

[Porque]

I don't think it matters how good of an entrepreneur Font is if he folds at the first sight of challenge.

Laporta may not be the best but he has the guts to perservere like a fuckin cockroach.

Laporta cancelled the Eric Garcia deal and renegotiated it for better terms. Font wanted to stick with the initial terms and push it through January window with a transfer fee. That says it all about both.

 

[jamrock]

I don't think it matters how good of an entrepreneur Font is if he folds at the first sight of challenge.

Laporta is the best and he has the guts to perservere like a fuckin cockroach.

Laporta cancelled the Eric Garcia deal and renegotiated it for better terms. Font wanted to stick with the initial terms and push it through January window with a transfer fee. That says it all about both.

Agreed 😉

 

[Birdy]

Let's run this once again:

1) Font is a successful entrepreneur - yeah, Dubai connections. Why not sell the club to Saudis?
2) Already said I disapprove of much of Laporta's sporting sides.
3) Laporta is not handing big contracts like Barto did. The only exclusion is Lewa and remember we were desperate to sign him.
4) "Barca are back" actually secured the Nike deal.
5) As point 2) some things had to be done that were painful. Nothing to do with independence of the club.

1) IDK what Dubai connection are you talking about.
You understand the difference selling club to Saudi state to any other scenario?
2) Still, you don't see how the financial and the sporting go hand to hand. If the sporting side fails, so will the financial since Laporta pulled levers
3) Go read how much he gave to Gundo. Also the renewals of Ansu, and the contracts given to Kounde and Raphina in 2022 were WAY ABOVE the market
The idiot is simply repeating the Bartomeu mistakes
4) LOL. Yeah, sure. Nike are idiots and believe whatever a non credible politician says.
5) Painful would not have mattered, if he was HONEST about it in the first place, and was not selling pipe dreams,
if he did not consider every one of us gullible sheep who will believe whatever BS comes out of his mouth

I see you did not comment anything about the embarrassment he has inflicted on the image of the club with Messi, and with all the signings he does not know if he is able to register...

Good try,
try again...

 

[Birdy]

I don't think it matters how good of an entrepreneur Font is if he folds at the first sight of challenge.

Laporta may not be the best but he has the guts to perservere like a fuckin cockroach.

Laporta cancelled the Eric Garcia deal and renegotiated it for better terms. Font wanted to stick with the initial terms and push it through January window with a transfer fee. That says it all about both.

It does not follow from the Eric Garcia deal that Font would 'fold at the first sight of challenge'

AT ALL

 

[Windhook]

1) IDK what Dubai connection are you talking about.
You understand the difference selling club to Saudi state to any other scenario?
2) Still, you don't see how the financial and the sporting go hand to hand. If the sporting side fails, so will the financial since Laporta pulled levers
3) Go read how much he gave to Gundo. Also the renewals of Ansu, and the contracts given to Kounde and Raphina in 2022 were WAY ABOVE the market
The idiot is simply repeating the Bartomeu mistakes
4) LOL. Yeah, sure. Nike are idiots and believe whatever a non credible politician says.
5) Painful would not have mattered, if he was HONEST about it in the first place, and was not selling pipe dreams,
if he did not consider every one of us gullible sheep who will believe whatever BS comes out of his mouth

I see you did not comment anything about the embarrassment he has inflicted on the image of the club with Messi, and with all the signings he does not know if he is able to register...

Good try,
try again...

1) IDK. IDK.
2) Nothing of any substance. Just hopeful hater scenarios.
3) Another educational episode, when you have the Bartomeu era hanging in the background.
4) Laughing at an officially signed sponsorship deal.
5) ???

Those "embarassment" moments I already addressed in my initial comment. Get a grip and stop acting like you have the nuclear button on this forum.