Joan Laporta

[DonAK]

Let's just say for the sake of argument that he even manages to steady us somewhat. What's the guarantee his successor won't wreck us again Barto and Rosell style lol?

Honestly the only reason Real Madrid aren't in deep shit like us is because they got Florentino Perez basically being a de-factor owner in that he's going to be their President for as long as he wants to or lives.

 

[Sorin]

From Johan Cruyff, Txiki Bergiristain and Ferran Soriano to Rafa Yuste and Enric Masip(fucking clown and a handball player lol).

Guess his first term was less about him and more about him just having the right people back then. This time he's surrounded by a band of clowns.

By his own doing of course. Got lucky the first time with Cruyff, the architect of what we know as modern Bercelona.

Laporta is a big mouth with dubious expertize when it come to football. Sacked competent people like Pimienta to put his former buddies and players, put his family in power, allowed Xavi to bring in his desired players, allowed Xavi to bring his brother as asistent coach.

At this point he is the most at fault for the level of this team, followed closely by Xavi.

 

[fergus90]

Let's just say for the sake of argument that he even manages to steady us somewhat. What's the guarantee his successor won't wreck us again Barto and Rosell style lol?

Honestly the only reason Real Madrid aren't in deep shit like us is because they got Florentino Perez basically being a de-factor owner in that he's going to be their President for as long as he wants to or lives.

The lack of a true football expert alongside him is telling this time around. He needs to appoint someone with serious stature in the footballing world, who's also a voice of reason.

I think he looks lost.

 

[serghei]

Laporta is a big mouth with dubious expertize when it come to football. Sacked competent people like Pimienta to put his former buddies and players, put his family in power, allowed Xavi to bring in his desired players, allowed Xavi to bring his brother as asistent coach.

At this point he is the most at fault for the level of this team, followed closely by Xavi.

More than Bartomeu?

 

[JamDav1982]

By his own doing of course. Got lucky the first time with Cruyff, the architect of what we know as modern Bercelona.

Laporta is a big mouth with dubious expertize when it come to football. Sacked competent people like Pimienta to put his former buddies and players, put his family in power, allowed Xavi to bring in his desired players, allowed Xavi to bring his brother as asistent coach.

At this point he is the most at fault for the level of this team, followed closely by Xavi.

They paid about a million to sack Pimienta.. then lost Planes etc who took in Pedri/Araujo.

Some awful decisions jist like the on to renew Xavi. Was no need.

 

[jamrock]

Wtf is this now 😂😂.

This place

 

[Sorin]

More than Bartomeu?

Don’t play dumb, you know I’m only talking about people that are currently at the club.

Am I wrong when I say that he surrounded himself with incompetent fools? Is that Bartomeu’s doing too?

 

[DonAK]

Also, can we talk about the club's ownership model again and have a serious discussion about it?

Right now we're selling assets the club owns for 20+ years just so we're able to get out of a hole and probably, hopefully operate in the future without most of the restrictions we currently have.

But even that means probably operating on a level Aston Villa or some team like that do. It's not like we're going to go back to spending hundreds of millions of euros and invest big time in the team considering we did that from 2003 until 2020 and spent well beyond our means.

I don't think this started with Rosell and Bartomeu, but they definitely sunk us and made it 10x worse. This living in dreamland, spend whatever you want and let your successor deal with it probably started a long time before that.

But what happens if Laporta manages to stabilize the club to that level and his successor turns out to be a disaster once again?
Then we have what? Assets sold to what seems like mostly unserious companies, but once again in massive trouble? I'm not saying selling a 49% stake in the club is a guarantee of stability and competence, but I'm not seeing it being worse than the current model, IF you don't end up selling to a hedge fund or some no name billionaire.

Either that or pray to god we get someone like Florentino in the future as our President for 10+ years.

 

[jamrock]

The comes in and wins a title in his first full season at the club, puts together an excellent.

What's was he supposed to do fire the coach that won't us our first league title in 4 years over the summer?.

 

[Porque]

We can't lose sight of the end goal which is to continue trimming squad fat and wages, sign astutely and get finances on the right growth for the return to Camp Nou.

Madrid lost final last year 3-1 and won the Copa del Tortilla. Maybe we end this season with some eggs too.

 

[serghei]

We can't lose sight of the end goal which is to continue trimming squad fat and wages, sign astutely and get finances on the right growth for the return to Camp Nou.

Madrid lost final last year 3-1 and won the Copa del Tortilla. Maybe we end this season with some eggs too.

Need to consider some sales too if some top offers come. Almost anyone can be moved for the right price.

 

[JamDav1982]

The comes in and wins a title in his first full season at the club, puts together an excellent.

What's was he supposed to do fire the coach that won't us our first league title in 4 years over the summer?.

No but he shouldnt have given him a new contract and even when appointed Xavi should have insisted on more experience in his coaching team.

Also should not have given Xavi such a say in transfers and club should have ensured DM for Busi etc.

 

[jamrock]

No but he shouldnt have given him a new contract and even when appointed Xavi should have insisted on more experience in his coaching team.

Also should not have given Xavi such a say in transfers and club should have ensured DM for Busi etc.

Extension I can understand.

The rest would be difficult to get, can't tell a coach especially someone who carries the weight of Xavi who u can and can't hire.

 

[JamDav1982]

Extension I can understand.

The rest would be difficult to get, can't tell a coach especially someone who carries the weight of Xavi who u can and can't hire.

Can tell Xavi that.. can tell him is that or doesnt get the job.

There is stories now in Catalan media that Barca wish they had and have reservations over qualifcations of Xavis team.

This isnt new and was something discussed last season even when won title.

 

[DonAK]

To be fair, he never wanted to hire Xavi according to reports back then. Basically had to be convinced by Rafa Yuste and Enric Masip to hire Xavi. Think Alemany ended up being on board too.

He also kinda mockingly said Xavi wasn't ready due to his inexperience mere 3-4 months before in the summer when he tried to find a replacement for Koeman and all that drama.

Shouldn't have renewed him though, but at least it wasn't a long extension.