Barcelona definitely lost this battle. Club looks like Mas Que Un Turd more then Mas Que Un Club with each passing day. Its just that alot of socios and supporters live in a bubble where they think 33 year old GOAT who gave entire football life to Barcelona being held "hostage" for 9 more months against his will will somehow turn this into good situation. This is irreversible damage.Bartomeu knows that he is hated and regarded as the worst president in Barcelona history. However, he did not also want to go down as the president who let Messi go.
As he had nothing to lose, he took on a firm non-negotiating stance. i.e. If Messi left, they would go to court.
No club was willing to take on the risk of having to pay hundreds millions of euros compensation 4 years down the line, in case the court case was lost. It was simply not worth it just to have Messi for one year (he will be free at the end of next year).
Bartomeu won this battle and Messi lost. Hopefully Barcelona also comes out a winner.
I do not expect Bartomeu to resign, unless the Catalan police accusations are serious. In which case, he would have no choice.
A new president will be looking to reinstall the values barca us famous of and barto destroyed.
Its possible to put barca back on track, add in a good sporting project and we can get back. But it will take time.
We cant get lower than this. If at some point it turns out barto was an undercover madridista mole I would not be surprised.
Keep telling that to yourself...Club can go winless, but still look classy. We look like Mas Que Un Turd with each minute that passes and these retards are at helm.The main values that need to be put back in place are on the playing side.
Energetic team, younger team led by coach with full authority.
Hopefully Koeman can go a long way to intalling that before most likely moves on next summer.
The main values that need to be put back in place are on the playing side.
Energetic team, younger team led by coach with full authority.
Hopefully Koeman can go a long way to intalling that before most likely moves on next summer.
I mean, how insecure can a guy get?For example, this is the man who was vice-president and consigliere to the regime when Eric Abidal, having been publicly promised he'd get a new contract the moment he was back ready to play after a liver transplant to beat cancer, was then unceremoniously shown the door as soon as he won his battle and got fit. This is also the man who sacked his director of football, Andoni Zubizarreta, halfway through a season in which his Zubizarreta-assembled squad would go on to win a glorious Treble culminating in the 3-1 Champions League final victory over Juventus.
Zubizarreta's crime? In 2014, when the Camp Nou crowd booed the giant screen upon which members of the Barca board were congratulating Lionel Messi on scoring his 253rd La Liga goal, which made him the all-time top scorer in that competition, Bartomeu needed a sacrificial lamb so he could convince himself and the media that it was not he who was being booed. So, out with the Zubi-goose who had laid the golden eggs -- in fact, half a dozen of them.
I hope the next president cut ties with sport and mundo, they are getting even worse than marca when it comes to Barca
I hope the next president cut ties with sport and mundo, they are getting even worse than marca when it comes to Barca