The person I hold most highly responsible for recruitment is Zubi. I've always been interested in politics and what goes on behind the scenes.
Let's take a look at Zubi. It's the same person who was fired byAthletic Bilbao, a team that don't even recruit players from teams outside the Basque Country, and yet he managed to get fired. Do you understand how miserable it is? He has a single territory of Spain to look after, and even that he couldn't manage to do right.
So what makes Barcelona then? We hire him as the sports director of the world's most successful team over the last 6-7 years. Zubi is a poisonous snake. A snake that has succeed wriggle in through the back door and who refuses to give up. He manages to never solicit any sensible player, and the few recruits who are successful, then it is others performing it.
He was quick to get behind Peps back as soon as it started to come to the club and Pep had chilly ties. It was noticeable how little pep liked Zubi towards the end, it almost felt he was disgust when he sat next Zubi at every press conference. What is most amusing is that he has the nerve to sulk in the media as soon as someone criticizes him, or when the club tries to correct him. Then he indeed threaten to resign if Barca try to lay off some of his useless companions.
Zubi is a symbol of everything that is wrong with today's politics and economy. A lazy person with very little skills that get too much power and money, and who manage to remain in the Barca through personal contacts within the club. He is a man who always managed to maintain itself by agree with the Board's opinions.. He twists and turns for those he is willing to tread on old friendships to hold onto. Somewhat reminiscent of the bank executives in the United States that f*cked up so much that millions of people lost money and houses, but still managed to retire with a huge severance pay and who soon became employees of other companies with huge salaries.