Joan Laporta

[TheStig]

You are joking but it's very possbile this isn't the last time Xavi is a part of the club. He has to choose the next club carefully, no stupid arab leagues.

Midtable La liga, even some rumors of Milan.

 

[Devils]

Bigger clown than Barto.

 

[wisconsincule]

This club cannot go 1 week without something ridiculous happening that shouldn’t even see the light.

The tabloid culture around the club is so dumb. Its like they constantly want some sort of unneeded drama to remain relevant and talked about. At what point does this nonsense become a detriment?

 

[Andresito]

Sources close to Laporta and Xavi are not surprised by this new turn of events because they see the president as a person who leads the club from the "emotional" side.
@moillorens @samuelmarsden

 

[Nazario1985]

People saying at least Laporta is not a crook like Barto and Rosell or Perez.

What is this the justice league court ?

I don't care if you re-sell to yourself a training ground to wipe out your depth like Perez, or bribes agents and clubs to get players like Barto ...etc get the fucking job done and spare me the moral shit.

Now we are stuck with an incompetent "clean" president

 

[Devils]

We need the vote of no confidence immediately.

Gotta trim the fat from the club.

 

[Messi983]

What are alternatives though?

Font, who would bring back Xavi?
Pique who is a big clown as well?
the return of Rosell?

 

[Messigician]

What are alternatives though?

Font, who would bring back Xavi?
Pique who is a big clown as well?
the return of Rosell?

I’d take Rosell back tbh

One of the few presidents with actual business experience and graduated from

ESADE​

Which is one of the best universities in the world for business if not THE best

 

[Messigician]

Trophies won by club during presidency​

• La Liga
  • 2010–11, 2012–13
• Copa del Rey
  • 2011–12
• Supercopa de España
  • 2010, 2011, 2013
• UEFA Champions League
  • 2010–11
• UEFA Super Cup:
  • 2011
• FIFA Club World Cup:
  • 2011

 

[Messigician]

And of course started the groundwork to win the treble in Barto’s first season

 

[Messigician]

Laporta has always been a criminal

renowned accounting firm Deloitte, who were instructed to carry out a detailed audit by Rosell upon takeover, uncovered a very different scenario to the picture Laporta was painting at the time. Per BBC Sport:

A new audit into Barcelona's finances have revealed the club's debt is 442m euros (£369.5m) after a loss of more than 77m euros (£64.36m) last season.
The previous board, led by Joan Laporta, had announced the club was 11m euros in the black at the end of June.
But a new audit carried out by Deloitte for new president Sandro Rosell's team reveals a far less healthy scenario.
[...] The audit shows that Barca's costs in the 2009-10 season rose to £400m, with their income at £341.7m.
Barca also had to recently take out a loan of around £125m after falling behind with the payment of player wages at the end of June, while central defender Dymtro Chygrynskiy was hastily sold to Shakhtar Donetsk to raise much-needed funds for the club.

Joan Laporta shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a club he almost destroyed financially. BERNAT ARMANGUE/Associated Press

Barcelona Should Not Even Consider Going Back to the Joan Laporta Way​

JASON PETTIGROVE
OCTOBER 31, 2014

Joan Laporta is back on the scene in Barcelona and that can only spell bad news for fans of the club.
Synonymous with the unprecedented success of the Pep Guardiola era, this Catalan lawyer is one slippery customer. Perhaps even more so than his much-derided successor Sandro Rosell.

The trophies that were won during his tenure as president of the club seem to have conveniently glossed over the incredible financial mismanagement during his time at Camp Nou.
Let's be clear. Rosell himself deserved to fall on his own sword and his "whiter than white" election campaign was a little embarrassing to say the least.

But the concerns that his administration raised were relevant and genuine.
ESPN note a report by AS which says:

Earlier this week, Spanish judge Jose Manuel Martinez Borreguero ruled that neither Laporta nor 16 of his fellow ex-directors would have to pay the 47.6 million euros sought by the Blaugrana for losses generated when the club was under Laporta's control.
The current Barca board, which was led initially by Sandro Rosell and followed by Josep Maria Bartomeu, charged in court that Laporta had altered the club's accounts in the final year of his mandate to convert a 79.6 million-euro loss into an 11.1 million-euro profit.
The net result of the Laporta era, according to Rosell, was a loss of 47.6 million euros, and he took action after consulting with club members to pursue his predecessor for the money.

Even though that would appear to put Laporta in the clear for another crack at the top job, the facts speak for themselves.
Indeed, renowned accounting firm Deloitte, who were instructed to carry out a detailed audit by Rosell upon takeover, uncovered a very different scenario to the picture Laporta was painting at the time. Per BBC Sport:

A new audit into Barcelona's finances have revealed the club's debt is 442m euros (£369.5m) after a loss of more than 77m euros (£64.36m) last season.
The previous board, led by Joan Laporta, had announced the club was 11m euros in the black at the end of June.
But a new audit carried out by Deloitte for new president Sandro Rosell's team reveals a far less healthy scenario.
[...] The audit shows that Barca's costs in the 2009-10 season rose to £400m, with their income at £341.7m.
Barca also had to recently take out a loan of around £125m after falling behind with the payment of player wages at the end of June, while central defender Dymtro Chygrynskiy was hastily sold to Shakhtar Donetsk to raise much-needed funds for the club.

TotalBarca went a step further in setting out the differences between the Laporta and Rosell regimes at the time:

Category	Laporta	Rosell
Benefits	445	408
Expenses	428	477
Balance	11	-77
Debt	200	442

As you can see there is a difference of 88 million Euros. Here is why:
Joan Gamper Sant Joan Despí land sale – 21.5 million. Only 1 million has been received so far. This money was not included as income by the auditor.
Mediapro TV contract – 16 million were included from a deal with Mediapro where the club will get 4 million until 2013 for TV rights. Only 4 million were included by the auditor.
Mediapro legal dispute – There is also a legal dispute with Mediapro where Barca would get 13 million back from them (in case of winning the dispute). The auditor only took 50% into account.
Henry’s last year amortization value – 8.2 million – This was not included by the auditor since Henry will not complete his last year in Barca.
Baena’s indemnisation – there is a legal dispute with Espanyol for this player’s transfer which could give Barca 3.9 millions (if Barca wins the legal dispute) – Not included by the auditor.
Villa Decans lands – These lands were estimated to have a value of 17 million euros by a appraiser consultant hired by Laporta but the new management got this estimate from an actual certified appraiser who valued the land in 5.7 millions. Auditor included 50% of the difference between both amounts.
Sogecable’s contract – there is also a legal dispute against Sogecable for TV rights that could give Barca 25 million euros back. – This was not included since Barca lost the first sitting of this dispute.

 

[Messigician]

Former police chief Jose Manuel Villarejo has accused current Barcelona President Joan Laporta of giving information to the police which would lead to the imprisonment of presidential rival Sandro Rosell for nearly two years.

Villarejo, who has spoken freely of a number of scandals, some founded and others not, claims that it was Laporta who supplied the authorities of Rosell money laundering. Rosell was initially one of Laporta’s board members during his first term (2003-08), but the pair fell out, leading to Rosell beating Laporta in the 2010 elections.

However before Rosell could complete his mandate, he was forced to resign after a money laundering scandal broke out. MD carried information from an interview with RAC1 featuring Villarejo, where he also says that someone close to Laporta filtered the information to the press. Rosell would end up spending nearly two years in prison before being acquitted of all charges.

 

[Porque]

Messigician got bored and is going through his backlog of Sandro Rosell's letters from jail.

 

[Messi983]

He then moved to the center of the Aragonese city where MD was a direct and only witness of his arrival at the meal with his fellow directors and was able to reveal several details of the agape. It was not an official lunch of common directives between the two contenders in the final since the official meeting was at dinner this Friday. The meal was exclusively Barça and President Laporta joined ranks with several of his most trusted managers and personal friends.

 

[Birdy]

Sources close to Laporta and Xavi are not surprised by this new turn of events because they see the president as a person who leads the club from the "emotional" side.
@moillorens @samuelmarsden

ABSOLUTELY

Truer words have never been spoken!

That's why move of no confidence is inevitable