It was Laporta who wanted Beckham you wally! JL failed and Rosell pulled strings to get Ronnie and the rest is history. Rosell has already said that he'll let Pep decide on transfers whilst he hasn't made any promises relating to who he may sign. Finally the fact that Sandro and Perez turn up at the same event does not mean that they're friends. Talk about adding 2+2 and getting 5!!!
Beckham was Laporta's campaign promise, when that failed they turned to Rosell's Nike connections. Rosell has shown a willingness to put talent ahead of flash in the players connected to him, but I still don't trust the fact that they are all Nike men. I'm sure some links are just lazy journalism, but I've never heard Rosell linked with a player who isn't in major Nike ads.Oh... I thought all this time Rosell wanted Beckham or Dinho, whoever would come to the club.... Yeah, 2+2=5 <_<
About the friends thing.... I guess you didn't read the full article. Then again, how would they know they're good friends....
EXCLUSIVE: Sandro's project's motto:
Just do it..
I think having a sporting director is 100% fine, unlike manchester united where you've had Ferguson for so long, in Barca coach movement is much more likely, and it's not great to have new managers coming in all the time and buying up their own players - more so giving the club reason to spend money, what with new managers and their 'projects'. Instead a sporting director is a constant in the club hierarchy. However, the sporting director should not be allowed to monopolise dealings, it should always imo be down to the coach in terms of the last word. So if the director is pro-Keirrison and the coach is having none of it, it should be that way. UNLESS as is what happened, the player is instantly loaned out. HOWEVER, if the director is pro-caceres, and the coach is having none of it, then there should be no deal, unless caceres is to be sent on loan immediately. Plus it would help if the new director were NOT Txiki or anyone of his calibre. Good guy though
Also I think Cáceres is better than Chysus.
But I think that in time hopefully Chysus will prove himself. It's not a crime to be frustrated with him, we felt the same towards Piqué at the start. And look where that ended up! (for now.)
Yeah I suppose he is the scapegoat, but then he is in that position of blame for a good reason. Barca buy expensive, sell cheap, and they have even been conducting transfers belatedly. The letting the market inflate because of Madrid was an absolute shocker. So he's viewed as he is for good reasons. Nonetheless I would agree with you in saying that he's always the centre of negative attention, and sometimes unjustly. He's not the only one that influences these decisions and he has also made some good signings. Also I would completely agree with you about Pep, so Pep might well have misled him.
+1 on the chyg bit.