Joan Laporta

jamrock

jamrock

Senior Member
It's him because he hired the coaches & the administrators who brought in the players & coached the players, which brought our success.

It's not rocket science people, as a leader you are there to delegate to put the right people in the right places for them to succeed & hence help your organization succeed.

Laporta did this to the point, where even after he left we were winning & the longer the time went on & his organizational influences faded the worst we got as a club.

He did this to the point as he said, that the president of our biggest rival & biggest team in spain, run away 😂.

A great leader is a great leader across generations, because what a great leader is, essentially to over simplify it, a great decision maker, you read the tea leaves & make the right calls.

Bartomeu was horrible at this, the great joan laporta was great at this.
 
Vilarrubi

Vilarrubi

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Birdy said:
Pep's case is a good example for my point.
People give Laporta credit for the great team that Pep built. The question should be 'what part of that was down to Laporta?'

Here is an answer:
Neither Laporta nor anyone had any glimpse that Pep was a WC genius coach that would define the next 20 years of football. (People who say Laporta knew that, sorry I cannot take seriously, they are whimsical)
What Laporta knew and wanted, he wanted to put some faith in a young hard-working coach who wanted to go back to the Cryuffian ID roots of the club, trust La Masia, and re-establish some football principles that have fallen into oblivion.
Given that, we can demarcate what part of credit should go to Laporta:
Laporta should get credit for putting his trust to a young aspiring coach that wanted to go back to the roots and use Masia.
Laporta should NOT get credit for building the best Barca team ever, because that eventual reality was pure serendipity and had nothing to do with his judgment on the issue.
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Agree with more or less all of what you’ve said. He didn’t literally build the team, he hired Pep etc and it’s a knock on effect. That’s his job as president so deserves credit, imo it’s not all luck, he had the balls to take that risk and it paid off.

[MENTION=1732]jamrock[/MENTION] said it well in post above. Don’t want to repeat same things as him.
 
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Porque

Senior Member
Pep was not out of the blue either. He was a year coaching the B team and Laporta [with the great Cryuff as his advisor] knew what he would bring and to put his faith in him as coach.

This is a good read for that point in time.
https://www. goal .com/story/pepguardiola/index.html

If anything it is testament to Laporta that he can build a great team around himself and listen to his advisors.

Once Pep went to the first team, Luis Enrique come straight to the B team to take over. Another case of the right vision as even after Laporta had left, it was LE who brought the second treble to the club.
 
khaled_a_d

khaled_a_d

Senior Member
Porque said:
Pep was not out of the blue either. He was a year coaching the B team and Laporta [with the great Cryuff as his advisor] knew what he would bring and to put his faith in him as coach.

This is a good read for that point in time.
https://www. goal .com/story/pepguardiola/index.html

If anything it is testament to Laporta that he can build a great team around himself and listen to his advisors.

Once Pep went to the first team, Luis Enrique come straight to the B team to take over. Another case of the right vision as even after Laporta had left, it was LE who brought the second treble to the club.
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Man, I forgot about Marc Valiente, always loved that kid. He was a true leader and he was Pique partner with Spain youth teams.
I always thought he will have more success than Pique, how wrong I was :lol:
 
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SmilerBam

Well-known member
Porque said:
Pep was not out of the blue either. He was a year coaching the B team and Laporta [with the great Cryuff as his advisor] knew what he would bring and to put his faith in him as coach.

This is a good read for that point in time.
https://www. goal .com/story/pepguardiola/index.html

If anything it is testament to Laporta that he can build a great team around himself and listen to his advisors.

Once Pep went to the first team, Luis Enrique come straight to the B team to take over. Another case of the right vision as even after Laporta had left, it was LE who brought the second treble to the club.
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And this has to put an end of any doubts about the past succeses of Laporta.He is our greatest president ever,and although nothing is sure in life,and Barca is in a very dire situation right now,i trust that he will steady the ship and bring back the glory to this great club.
 
Vilarrubi

Vilarrubi

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Didn’t Laporta say specifically he wouldn’t be naming names so it doesn’t destabilise current manager/staff......
 
Vilarrubi

Vilarrubi

New member
That rumour was reported by RAC1 who Romero reports for.

They did a recent interview with Font and have been posting about it ALL day with Romero retweeting stuff.

Seems they might be in support of him so this recent rumour does seem suspect. Let’s hope Laporta wins and doesn’t let that fat fuck Romero in for interviews.
 
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xxxxxx

Senior Member
Let's be honest here, Laporta cannot afford to get a big profile manager and he wants someone who has Barcelona DNA as their manager. Arteta has played in our youth system before, so technically he does have Barcelona DNA. He won't get lucky again and find another Pep in his system.

We probably can't afford to let Koeman go in any case, so we'll probably let him go when his contract runs out next year.

We'll stick with Koeman for 1 more year and get Xavi next year. It's pretty much guaranteed at this point.
 
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mc_lovin

Senior Member
Who are those big profile coaches anyway? Klopp? Nightmarish stuff for me. Guardiola obviously isnt coming back. Allegri or the likes? Obvious misfits.

Arteta is actually okay. Nagelsmann as well, but he seems Real bound.
 
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