"Doulas for 6 mil when we could get Asensio for 4 mil "
I think this was during the Zubizzareta era, same era where Isco was let go to Madrid. this has nothing to do with the current president.
It would be ok if we could actually make a distinction between this board and the previous one with Rosell, but unfortunately that is not the case. This is the same route the previous board had as well.
In his latest interview with SPORT, Benedito said this: "
The Civil Guard itself says from the telephone conversations it follows that Rosell continues to command in FC Barcelona. I do not say that Bartomeu is a puppet of Rosell, but it has been very important in the most important decisions that are made in Barca."
This is a major alarm, and it is not to be taken lightly.
"Barto loudly took on "Operation Verratti" and "Operation Ceballos" failed miserably in both and yet wants all the credit in Dembele's signing,"
Failing at something is not so bad if we know you tried. Both players would have been nice for Barca.With Verrati, he did the only thing he could do: ask the player to pressure the team. PSG don't need money, so the only option was to try to lure the player and convince the team. I actually read that once he found out Neymar was coming to PSG, he decided not to sign for barca anymore. So he was very close to getting the player. Where did you read that Bartomeu wants all the credit for signing Dembele?
Mundo Deportivo gets direction straight from the board, from leaking of the bids to making up quotes from Seri throwing Nice under the bus right after he outed Bartomeu and co's lies. MD also went all out in a full page article about how much Bartomeu, personally was very important in landing Dembele, while according to every other reports from non biased out lets, it was a cluster fuck all around.
There is a clear pattern that this board is following in every transfer. Start loudly as who they are gonna target through out lets like MD mainly and then SPORT. Then they unsettle the player from their clubs. Demand that they make their desire to join Barcelona public. They do this so the seller club's grip on their player becomes slack and of course to make up for their weak skills in negotiations. Then enter to bid a low amount possible in the current market. If the selling club resists, they up the media pressure. They then put the player in a situation like you either come now, or Barca will never again consider you. Klopp publicly told the press about this and said how untrue this statement can be in football world, but the player is unsettled and emotional and falls for it. The next step is either they bid again or pull out of the deal without any notice, putting immense psychological pressure on the player. Either they will come back a couple days later with again a lousy bid, or will not.
I don't think I need to discuss how much douchebaggery is involved in this issue as we all saw what it was doing to Dembele, Seri and Coutinho,Martinez and even Verratti until Al Khelaifi settled him. But it is also a very immoral and unprofessional way of signing players among the higher levels of the clubs.
It has some benefits for the board tho. They will sell that "Everyone wants to join the Barcelona that
we are running. they are desperate for us. We went in the market but the other clubs would not sell despite the player being under stress", then come out and play the victim. instead of owning up their failures.
You say this is not the right time to change the board, but if we keep going on with this, we will not only miss the January window as well, but also get even more tension inside the club. a new board will rejuvenate the whole club atmosphere which is in our direct interest.
You also say we should not blame the board for not paying 200 mil for Coutinho. No one is blaming them for not paying 200. But don't you see how this exposes them as incompetent with: 1.Moving this late in the market so the prices have gone up and everyone knows how much we have to pay. 2. Not having any sort of plan B to follow if you are seeing this one is failing.
There is no way we can excuse them, at the very very least this transfer market. They have been lying constantly:
1.Emery comes and says on record that there was never a serious bid for Verratti, despite MD claiming like we were bidding every 2 days with improved offers.
2.BVB comes out and say Barca has not had contact with them for 2 weeks while MD, again, acting like we are doing everything we can, and BVB are being unreasonable.
3.Nice president comes out and says they were agreeing with the 40 mil for Seri, but Barca just cut the connections suddenly with no further notice. while MD actually came out and lied about Nice wanting more than 40 mil and faking quotes for Seri.
4.Klopp and liverpool director actually saying despite what the media has been fed, Barca has not bid for Coutinho in 10 days. Then after the window closed, Telegraph reports that Liverpool denies asking 200 mil for Coutinho.
5.Achraf Ben Ayad the journalist from BEIN that is actually reliable in media and has direct access to the board coming and out and apologizing, saying that the barca board was feeding him lies all the time.
They have not only messed with our own players and lost internal support in the club, messed with other player's minds but also played with our reputation among other clubs.This is in no way acceptable or excusable. They have to go. the sooner, the better.
