Josep Maria Bartomeu

[Sumlit]

Was he wrong to sack Zubi and keep Lucho in your opinion?

Zubizarreta merited dismissal for all his failures way before that happened. However I, unlike you, can be objective and criticize when it's warranted and recognize a good job when it is done.

Ang again, keeping LE is no great merit. Firing a coach a third of the season in would have been a monumental stupidity. I cannot give credit to someone for not being monumentally stupid.

 

[Barcaman]

Yeah, Laporta didn't win the treble either. It was all Txiki

 

[Sumlit]

Saying Zubi was the man that brought the manager and players that won the treble sounded like praise to me.

Maybe not.

That's a fact JamDav.

 

[FCBarca]

JamDav you complain about people giving Bartomeu no credit, but you yourself are completely unable to criticize him for all his wrongdoings.

He's been an apologist for Rosell since even before he was elected...Even long after he's been exposed for the corporate whore many of us knew him to be, same old refrain

Does beg the question of whether it truly is bliss

 

[JamDav1982]

Zubizarreta merited dismissal for all his failures way before that happened. However I, unlike you, can be objective and criticize when it's warranted and recognize a good job when it is done.

Ang again, keeping LE is no great merit. Firing a coach a third of the season in would have been a monumental stupidity. I cannot give credit to someone for not being monumentally stupid.

Yet people give Laporta loads of credit for not sacking Rijkaard to early...two different sets of rules.

 

[JamDav1982]

He's been an apologist for Rosell since even before he was elected...Even long after he's been exposed for the corporate whore many of us knew him to be, same old refrain

Does beg the question of whether it truly is bliss

From the man who knows the sitaution so well he tells us the old board would never deal with the likes of Raiola....oops they did with Ibra and put him on the payroll.

 

[Sumlit]

Yeah, Laporta didn't win the treble either. It was all Txiki

Credit for success on the field goes to players first, coaching staff second, personnel director third and club management last.

Club management is responsible for other things like growth of the brand, well-being of the club, management of the club, etc etc. If you're going to sit there and say Rosell/Bortomeu tandem did more for the club in these areas than Laporta you've no idea what you're talking about.

 

[FCBarca]

Moreover, you could see how close to the players, Laporta's board was - even participating in pickup matches with the team...You think that happened with Barto & Sandy?

 

[Flavia]

Credit for Pep/Ronaldinho/Rijkaard is not Laportas then by those rules.

If you want to break it down like that do it for everyone.

I always did that, though. Txiki build the teams during laporta's tenure. But Laporta is not a subject here now, just Barto. For you they never did no wrong.

One thing that is funny about Enrique renewal: yesterday Bartomeu told rac1 he couldn't renew him, that it could only be done after elections. And then he renewed today. Weird, huh?

"Eso lo tiene que decidir el futuro presidente. Si soy yo, le propondré la renovación. No sé si será lo primero que haga, pero sí que será una de las cosas que haré"

 

[Barcaman]

Don't throw Rosell back in the mix to suit your argument.
Bartomeu has it's flaws as any previous president but he's no Rosell.

 

[JamDav1982]

Credit for success on the field goes to players first, coaching staff second, personnel director third and club management last.

Club management is responsible for other things like growth of the brand, well-being of the club, management of the club, etc etc. If you're going to sit there and say Rosell/Bortomeu tandem did more for the club in these areas than Laporta you've no idea what you're talking about.

No one is saying who did more.

Just a load of different rules applied ad Laporta got praise for the success on the field and huge praise for managers chosen under him etc.

If it is down to players on the pitch lets go back a year or so and see who was getting blame.

 

[JamDav1982]

Moreover, you could see how close to the players, Laporta's board was - even participating in pickup matches with the team...You think that happened with Barto & Sandy?

Yeah they got so close that the players were pretty much out of control until Pep came in and lost the peak years of Ronaldinho etc.

Its not a social club.

 

[DonAK]

He's no Rosell. He's just Rosell's partner in crime. Rosell's 1st Vice-President and Rosell's personal friend. Because Bartomeu has never done anything wrong or lied, like when he promised Abidal a new contract publicly and backtracked.

Please. Whatever he has done lately is only to better his position in the upcoming elections. One year of trying to cover up his previous wrongdoings close to the elections so he has a chance and suddenly Bartomeu is all good and Rosell was the big bad wolf, even though Bartomeu stood beside him all the time.

 

[Sumlit]

Don't throw Rosell back in the mix to suit your argument.
Bartomeu has it's flaws as any previous president but he's no Rosell.

Bartomeu was Rosell's vise-president and closest ally, of course he shares in the Rosell debacle.

Are we going to say Bartomeu was completely ignorant of all Rosell's wrongdoings and is totally exempt from them? So either Bartomeu is complicit or incompetent.

 

[JamDav1982]

He's no Rosell. He's just Rosell's partner in crime. Rosell's 1st Vice-President and Rosell's personal friend. Because Bartomeu has never done anything wrong or lied, like when he promised Abidal a new contract publicly and backtracked.

Please. Whatever he has done lately is only to better his position in the upcoming elections. One year of trying to cover up his previous wrongdoings close to the elections so he has a chance and suddenly Bartomeu is all good and Rosell was the big bad wolf, even though Bartomeu stood beside him all the time.

This Abidal thing always gets mentioned.

Abidal was passed not fit to play by medical staff and they offered him another job at club.

Should they have offered him a playing contract and never played him that would have been about worst thing they could have done.

Also it just ignores how well the club treated Abidal when he got ill.

Happens all the time that clubs back track on contracts etc. Ronaldinho was told he would not be getting sold and few months later was gone.