Joan Laporta

[Barcilliant]

Rumours that Laporta had dinner with Messi, Pique, and Jordi Alba to discuss the future of the club (sic!), in which the name of Xavi was also mentioned

Hope it's not true,
if it is it shows Laporta is the wrong president

Who is running the club?

 

[behindbrowneyes]

Rumours that Laporta had dinner with Messi, Pique, and Jordi Alba to discuss the future of the club (sic!), in which the name of Xavi was also mentioned

Hope it's not true,
if it is it shows Laporta is the wrong president

Nothing wrong with asking some of your employees for their opinions. Now we can read more into it than it really is, like "the old guard" or "the club de amigos is leading the club", but in the end they are the ones who know the club the best through their experience and asking them what they think about the training, getting coached by an ex-colleague, etc. is not a bad thing at all.

After all those personal problems with Bartomeu and players fighting against the president and president fighting against the players, I'm glad that Laporta is very close to the team.

A good CEO, leader, president gathers information from all involved parties and makes his decisions based on that.

 

[Andresito]

Rumours that Laporta had dinner with Messi, Pique, and Jordi Alba to discuss the future of the club (sic!), in which the name of Xavi was also mentioned

Hope it's not true,
if it is it shows Laporta is the wrong president

No problem in that. Doesn't necessarily mean these will be offered a 5 year contract.

They've been part of the glory and the demise of the club so they should have opinions on what went wrong, what to avoid and how to improve in the future. Then it's up to Laporta what to do with that input.

 

[Blaugrana Bull]

Alba was the waiter btw. After a while Laporta and Pique complained that he was only serving Messi.

 

[Messigician]

My President

 

[te amo barca]

Announce Koeman's dismissal!

 

[Richard.H]

Let’s say hypothetically he cleans out the squad as this forum wishes, no amigos maybe just for Messi and Alba. How do you expect him to have money to find replacements? If anything it’ll just be youth playing every week which I’m not sure Messi would be pleased with

 

[messi2140]

We literally don't have a single WC defender (Araujo has potential but he seems to be made out of glass) in our backline yet we are too busy signing Eric Garcia and calling it a day.

 

[evilhita666]

Now let's see if he can put on his big boy pants and show his buddies the door out of the club...

 

[neo_wolf]

Laporta's main job right now is to handle barca's debt, he cant clean out the entire team and fill it with other younger wc players, barca does not have the money for that, the best he can do is get rid of a few players that dont add much to the team so that he can bring in 1 wc player and 2 or 3 good but not wc players.

Out: Pique, Lenglet, Griezman, roberto, Umtiti,coutihno, Pjanic

Try to really get Haaland.

Koeman also should be out, i appreciate what he has done with the young players but he is not a manager that will take us to important titles.

 

[mc_lovin]

Let’s say hypothetically he cleans out the squad as this forum wishes, no amigos maybe just for Messi and Alba. How do you expect him to have money to find replacements? If anything it’ll just be youth playing every week which I’m not sure Messi would be pleased with

I personally would be more than happy with just Roberto and Pique this year. Replacements are very doable for them (Emerson is more or less already here).

 

[Birdy]

Let’s say hypothetically he cleans out the squad as this forum wishes, no amigos maybe just for Messi and Alba. How do you expect him to have money to find replacements? If anything it’ll just be youth playing every week which I’m not sure Messi would be pleased with

You just gave the best answer as to why the 'pleasing Messi' strategy is the wrong avenue to walk down.
And Laporta is to be blamed for walking that slippery slope and making empty promises (Neymar) or putting a show (Pursuing Haaland) to convince him to stay, while he knows perfectly clear that this is time for rebuilding and moving out the old guard, not a time for Messi to win CL.
That chance died with the last glimpse of the old team, it died with Valverde at Anfield.
It's time to move on

A serious president will explain that to Messi, and if he wants out, that's fine. Let him try to win a CL with another club.

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Laporta needs to look at every player in the roster and decide if they are worth keeping. Not many are worth keeping.

Almost all of the older players should be gone. The level of play is comical.

Lenglet, Umtiti, Pjanic, Busi, Pique, Coutinho and Dembele. Even Steigen needs to be questioned now. If great offer comes for him, sell!

Those guys need to leave. We won't be competitive in a long time but it's better that way, at least we will have some sort of future.

 

[Barcilliant]

Laporta needs to look at every player in the roster and decide if they are worth keeping. Not many are worth keeping.

Almost all of the older players should be gone. The level of play is comical.

Lenglet, Umtiti, Pjanic, Busi, Pique, Coutinho and Dembele. Even Steigen needs to be questioned now. If great offer comes for him, sell!

Those guys need to leave. We won't be competitive in a long time but it's better that way, at least we will have some sort of future.

Ter Stegen absolutely needs to go. First out.

 

[Hardy]

Let’s say hypothetically he cleans out the squad as this forum wishes, no amigos maybe just for Messi and Alba. How do you expect him to have money to find replacements? If anything it’ll just be youth playing every week which I’m not sure Messi would be pleased with

he'll never do that, seems too connected with all seniors.