Laporta leaned heavily on Cruyff and was lucky we had generational talents. Aan obese president who runs his mouth overtime
When you vote for Laporta, you need to understand how he works. He isn't an expert in money, nor has a huge network apart from some agents who are his friends.
Laporta is a lawyer, running his mouth is actually a big strength of him, that's the reason people vote for him in the first place. With his mouth, he manages to convince people. Be it staff, players, reporters or fans. He is very charismatic.
Another strength is his connections to capable people he leans on and that is, where his success depends on. His first term was successful, because he managed to bring in skilled people like Berigistain and Soriano both lead City now. He started his second term also by bringing in experts with Alemany and Ferran Reverter ceo of the Media Markt Saturn group.
Sadly both left the club now and he looks like a fool without expert shoulders he can lean on. Compare it to a striker who hides all his shortcomings with his biggest strength to score goals, but if the goals disappear, you have a completely useless player on the field.
What qualifications does Deco have?
Deco is actually really good in his main field and it's not finances. He ran a very successful player's agency and has very good connections to many agents and a big network in general because of it.
That's why it was perfect when he was working under Alemany, who was on the contrary to him a finance expert, but didn't had any connections to the football world. That's why both have complemented each other perfectly as they had different areas of expertise. But both saw themselves as "top dogs" and didn't want to share the sports director position. So Alemany left and Deco stayed.
I'm not surprised that the club continues to struggle with finances, since Laporta and Deco have their strengths, but it's not managing money. Laporta needs to find someone like Reverter/Alemany again and let Deco focus entirely on the sporting section. That's the only way to success under Laporta. Finding capable people.
