It is much worse than that. The fools don't even have a sporting project and never had any in the first place. Other than destroying the Cruyff sporting model and legacy that turned the fortunes of this club around and changed it forever 30 years ago. Most of the club's success on and off the field is due to that very sporting model.
Basically a bunch of largely clueless (football wise) and openly anti-Cruyff people took power in 2010 and the first thing those leeches did was to strip Cruyff's honorary title as life president from him. A club legend like him (arguably the most important person in Barça's modern history) had to be publicly insulted, shamed and was forced to go to the Camp Nou to return his "insignia" (don't recall the English word for that) in public view. How pathetic must one be?
The same day they started their crusade against Laporta and made up bogus claims of Laporta having neglected the club economically. Later proven false in a court of law. Their list of absurdities have been endless in the past 9 years. What I wrote is just what occurred during the first week alone!
Basically they have systematically and passionately been destroying not only our traditional sporting model (what made us a success story on every front - in fact the biggest in Europe in the past 30 years measured on trophies won, playing style, legacy, admiration etc.) but the very essence that made us a success story.
What carried us between 2010-2016 was not the work of the current useless board but Laporta's legacy coupled with the same old spine of players that were part of Pep's team and earlier Rijkaard's era (Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Valdés, Eto'o, Márquez, Touré Yaya etc.). That coupled with a few good buys, mostly under Zubi, such as Alba, Suárez, Rakitic, MatS etc. That and having the immense fortune of having arguably the GOAT in your rooster (Messi) in the past 15 years and counting. This is what held a crumpling fundament from collapsing.
We had "club de amigos" clans in the past as well (like any club in existence) but Laporta rid the team of them (Ronaldinho, Deco, Thuram, Zambrotta etc.) in 2008 after 2 years of disappointing results and likewise Rijkaard whose cycle had ended. We too had more than one transfer flop in the past but at least there was a clear plan and vision being implemented. Nor were the transfer flops even comparable to the likes of Coutinho, Dembélé etc. None of that today.
BTW, Rosell, Bartomeu etc. were also at fault for chasing Pep away from the club. Have no illusions. The whole "I am tired and cannot offer the club anything more" excuse was just that. An excuse. The real reason was their constant negative interference in the existing successful sporting model that they inherited from Laporta, their archenemy. Pep did rightly not want any part in that and left.
The club as a whole and much of our fanbase has an identity crisis that is unfolding before our eyes. That explains why clearly wrong decisions are accepted or even hailed as good ones.
The pathetic and desperate chase of freaking Neymar is just one out of countless examples. We are in shambles institutionally and in terms of sporting project. The latter is absolutely key for any successful project. The former is tied to the latter.
