Laporta might be clueless, but football is a business and we are at a downward spiral.
It is easy to be on top when you have Messi, the best generation of La Masia ever and tons of money.
Messi, Cr7 and Neymar are gone.
La Liga was on it's peak during Messi and Cr7.
Without them, average fans won't care.
In the 90s or early 00s, nobody has watched La Liga.
In my country, for example, they always had Seria A and EPL matches from 1991-2005.
There was no La Liga and barely anyone complaint.
And then a lot of our fans are measuring everything with the golden era, for example:
La Masia is golden because it worked around 2009
La liga is popular because it was after 2009
We are one of the best clubs because we were after 2009
Without the best generation ever, we'll get shittier deals from sponsors, shittier tv deals, La liga is poor either way, Camp Nou is half empty.
With even less money, how to attract new sponsors and buy 150m superstars to change our fortunes?
Some people here often ask me: Bbz, what is your end goal?
One of it is = reality.
A lot of our fans jumped on Barca's ship during the most successful era in our history and those fans have too high standards and expectations.
I mean, we fired EV after 2 La ligas because he didn't play beautiful enough.
In the 90s and 00s, besides Barca I loved Ac Milan, Roma and Liverpool.
But all of those clubs had a 10, 15 or 30 years long stints of being poor mostly because they didn't have money.
Ok, sometimes you can build a good team with average income but in general the best teams are the richest teams.
Look at Psg, City, Chlelsea, Liverpool.
Ok, Barto made some horrible deals but still...
Even in the past we were on top due to R9, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Etoo, Deco, who were all expensive signings.
About Super league, that is our only chance.
La liga is irrelevant and it is sinking lower and lower.
Sponsors will run away from us.
International fans who were coming to see Msn won't come to watch Nico and Gavi.
Our fans will have a rude awakening.
They are looking for quick fixes, but those won't work.
People say how we will fly after Raki, EV, Koeman or today after Busi.
No matter how bad Busi is, we'll probably be even worse without him.
The world has changed.
Epl and other teams are way richer.
Other teams are better at scouting.
Other teams are better at training regimes and physical preparation.
Other teams are better in a psychological planning of a team, leaders and mental strength.
We are stuck in the past where La Masia was golden, where 168cm players were rulling the world, where talent was more important than physique and where La liga was rich and everyone wanted to be sponsors of Barca, everyone wanted to sign for Barca and Camp Nou was full.
I know that some people don't like my grey estimations, but our future is probably way closer to Milan and Arsenal than to anything even close to 2009.
Even in 2006 or 2009, a part of our income and La liga fame came due to Seria A bankruptcy.
It was the most popular league for 20 years and it suddenly died.
Sponsors, tv viewers and players needed a new league to move on from Seria A, and majority of them moved to La Liga and Epl.
Today though, we are where Seria A was in 2005'.
La liga is without money, without superstars and more or less irrelevant and boring.
Fans, sponsors, players and hype are moving to Epl.
And there are no reasons for La liga to re-emerge again since in 2008, it came on top due to a fall of Seria A and Spanish NT success followed by Messi-Cr7 eternal rivalry.
Some will ask: what is your solution then?
It is Superleague.
And a hope that we will magically produce a Messi-lite out of nowhere from La Masia who will attract sponsors and buzz.
About Laporta and sponsors, we will be losing sponsors.
Imagine if you are Nike or Playstation.
Would you invest 200m euros in La Liga or Epl?
Imagine the difference in return of investment in those two currently.
Without money, we'll sink lower and lower.
And rich will get richer.
