Birdy
Senior Member
Favoritism, petty politics, nepotism, agent relations. You name it. I do believe Laporta cares a lot about the club and is desperate to get us back to the elites of Europe again, but he's not the young, charismatic guy anymore that could recruit and keep talented people to help him out anymore.
The worst thing is that I don't really believe someone like Victor Font who was his main challenger is really that much better. With Font it's a lot of yapping without anything concrete. The most concrete thing he brought up and talked about during the elections was how he was going to make Xavi the SD & Manager and basically have him make all our football decisions. Not even Pep does that at City lol.
I think we deserve better than that. All the bolded part that you mention is a hybris to the club and its history
It's not so much an age thing, but Laporta's mind is stuck in the old way of doing things.
He can't comprehend the new, simply as that
I agree with everything in your post, apart from last paragraph. Font's only flaw in the last presidential campaign was his obsession with Xavi. It made sense only because Xavi supported him and his campaign.
Once Xavi backstabbed him in order to remain open for Laporta as well (which Font himself acknowledged the day of the election after the results), Font took some distance.
Hence, I doubt Xavi would play any role in the Barca structure if Font becomes president
The point is the rest in Font's campaign was spot on. He is not a yankie that cares about business/money only. On the contrary, he understands how the game is played on the executive level, and how you build a club by populating the structure with professionals instead of friends and political allies
PS: Imagine that many voters did not vote for Font because they didn't want someone inexperienced as Xavi to be the coach, and preferred Laporta who was selling Pep's name at the time
... Only to endure 3 soon to be 4 nerve-wrecking years of Xavi
THE IRONY!!