20 - Dani Olmo

[TheStig]

I'm critical of Laporta when he does shit that is wrong but we all know it could be a lot worse, we've seen it for a decade so even I am very careful when wishing another president other than Laporta. Laporta has many flaws but he won't kill us as another Bartomeu would.

 

[RedxMAK]

Keep Laporta in charge for as long as he wants like Madrid did with Florentino.

I don't care that much about the little things.

It's the same as in politics. Voters get overly angry with little things, they elect people with silver tongue who promise grand stuff, they get in office, and fuck things up.

People who praise him on this forum regularly, don’t know the insane mistakes he did in his first stint which led to his resignation. He’s not perfect but he definitely learnt from mistakes. Laporta has had his mistakes and he’s gonna learn from
them and take us to another level, also so far he has done a great job

 

[Birdy]

Why are we still paying Gundogan

Who knows.
Laporta probably negotiated some payment this season

Another 'success story'

 

[Birdy]

Frenkie
Ansu
Lewa

Once those 3 are removed that basically frees up 3 potentially world class players to join Barca on those wages.

Lewa's wages will be for [Insert WC Striker]
Ansu could be a LW's wages
Frenkie could be a RB/LB with a lot left over.

The left over wages sadly will go towards Gavi/Pedri/Yamal and any others that will need increased wages on new contracts

Plus
Ferret who gets 10m per year
Inigo who gets 9m per year despite being 35
plus Kounde is ridiculously overpaid with 13.5 m

 

[Birdy]

Imagine the total about of great players that have come through our club and while we are one of the top 2 biggest teams in the world, we should have had more success than we've had, but we were constantly held back by bad management/leadership.

Then you have a president like Laporta who is basically directly responsible for 3 of the 5 CL titles we have, God knows how many league titles.

A brand new stadium.

Who brought us from the brink not once but twice.

And a few people are like naaaaaah, insert guy were could be better.

Our rivals are happy he left when he did, or it would have been total dominance for 15-20 years.

LMAOL

Yes, Laporta is 'directly responsible' for the 3 CLs, not Pep and MSN

Laporta apologists have no shame

 

[jamrock]

LMAOL

Yes, Laporta is 'directly responsible' for the 3 CLs, not Pep and MSN

Laporta apologists have no shame

Lol this has to be one of your dumbest takes.

 

[Birdy]

Lol this has to be one of your dumbest takes.

One of the dumbest takes ever in this forum is to say Laporta is responsible for those titles

 

[Temptation]

Laporta does have his qualities. Don't get me wrong. He's probably a good leader with decent charisma and communication in the press(he's a politician FFS). But he's pretty clueless about the game.


I can applaud the courage he showed to appoint Flick and sack the Catalan media darling Xavi but he's hardly a club building mastermind like the Brighton guys.


Barca won so much from 2006 to 2017 because it was their golden era. It was hardly a recruiting masterclass. Hiring Pep was very risky and not based on data. They just got lucky with Pep and that golden generation of La Masia. Nobody thought Pep would turn out to be a GOAT level manager.


Barca had an unbelievable group of academy players coming through together and they bought the biggest names in the market for the remaining positions spending loads of money.


Laporta is not a total clown. He has leadership qualities but he's anything but a Football mastermind lol.

 

[KingLeo10]

he's hardly a club building mastermind like the Brighton guys.

Last person to trust with Barca takes is you, Billy.

 

[jamrock]

Temp he took a risk hiring arguably the greatest manager ever.

Also temp. but that doesn't show good leadership skills, because it wasn't based on data

😂.

That's ignoring rijkaard
Ignoring signings like eto'o, Alves, guily, Larsson, deco, Marquez 😂.
Etc
Yea nothing special about recruitment.

Ive had and won this debate too many times on here to waste my time in it.

But someone needs to look up good the qualities good to great leaders have and understand the difference between a leader and a manager.

 

[khaled_a_d]

Laporta is not a total clown. He has leadership qualities but he's anything but a Football mastermind lol.

There is not a single club president who is a football mastermind.
Perez had 1 Liga as his whole major title cabinet in his first 4 years of his 2nd tenure, after breaking every transfer record in history.

Then comes Zidane and Ancelotti, and now Madritistas believe he deserves to has stadium in his name.
Great leaders are about hiring the right guys ,then the right guys hire the right guys etc.
Laporta in his first tenure trusted Crujif and Txiki, and would weigh in between them.
Laporta had Lippi and Mourinho begging for the job, and he was leaning into hiring Mou, when he was told Pep is the right choice by both, he didn't hesitate and hired him with endless support.
He gets the absolute credit for that, as any club president would.

 

[jamrock]

He always doesn't get enough credit for hiring Ricky, who is a forgotten man in all this, but he came in and started the change, but due to how great pep is, the rijkaard hire gets overlooked.

 

[Temptation]

Also temp. but that doesn't show good leadership skills, because it wasn't based on data

When did I say he doesn't show good leadership skills?

Last person to trust with Barca takes is you, Billy.

Relax Fredo. You'd have trusted me more than your bumboys if I had just added another sentence twerking for Messi and named him as the sole reason why Barca are successful 🤡 😂

 

[Temptation]

There is not a single club president who is a football mastermind.
Perez had 1 Liga as his whole major title cabinet in his first 4 years of his 2nd tenure, after breaking every transfer record in history.

Then comes Zidane and Ancelotti, and now Madritistas believe he deserves to has stadium in his name.
Great leaders are about hiring the right guys ,then the right guys hire the right guys etc.
Laporta in his first tenure trusted Crujif and Txiki, and would weigh in between them.
Laporta had Lippi and Mourinho begging for the job, and he was leaning into hiring Mou, when he was told Pep is the right choice by both, he didn't hesitate and hired him with endless support.
He gets the absolute credit for that, as any club president would.

Fair enough. You do make some great points.

 

[serghei]

Let's hope the club doesn't do anything stupid and Laporta is motivated enough for a 2nd term after the stadium is finished and the economic situation is improved. Then we can see what he can do with real funds to build a top class squad beyond just picking up old players, free agents and trusting La Masia talents.

Imagine we can hit some transfers like Salah or MacAllister on top of what we have. Would add just the element we miss.

Until then, building a stadium, with severe problems registering players... to win a championship under these conditions, and play good football like we are currently, being 2nd in CL... pretty fucking great.

We need our home stadium, and we need 3-4 inspired signings. We can do it with around 300m invested in 2 summers. With good people in charge, we sign 6 players, 3-4 of them could be hits. 1 fullback, 1 midfielder instead of De Jong, 1 central striker and maybe 1 winger.