It was inevitable that oil money and EPL clubs would take over. Many here including myself predicted it.
Laporta is not dumb. He knows the club is in shit shape. He also knows we can't compete for cl for at least three years and probably longer. At this point he's just doing damage limitation and kicking the can down the road. He will hope for a few Copas or Ligas and leave the mess for his successor to deal with.
Or downfall is completely selfmade though. We had the money, we just wasted it all.
If we didn't spend almost half a billion on bums we could have the strongest team in the world right now. We could've been in the race for Haaland, Mbappe etc.
That or be at least somewhat financially healthy.
But since we bought the holy trinity of bums, made other questionable purchases and handed out fat contracts like candy we're in this shit state. Competing with PL and oil clubs would've been hard either way of course but we really did everything in our power to make it even worse lol.