Wish it was that simple.
Signing Ronaldinho was the most defining moment of turning the club around and it happened almost by accident as Laporta failed on his presidential promise of signing Beckham.
I don't think that they wanted Beckam so badly though..
Sandro then snapped Ronaldinho who was about to sign for ManUtd.
And this is still the best thing that Rosell has made for Barca(and the reason for which he wants Neymar probably; he knows that people remember who bought Ronaldinho, but they don't remember Deco, Marquez, Eto'o)..but I can't forget that he was also the person that Nunez asked to stop Ronaldo from leaving us, that he helped Ronaldo to join Real Madrid and that he wanted to bring Luis Fabiano instead of Eto'o because he didn't want to upset his friend Florentino.
Laporta was a good president but was also involved in several shady dealings which were basically money laundering.
Rosell is no saint himself.
Yes, but for now only one of them doesn't go to a certain country anymore because of the fear of being arrested. And I admire your faith, but after what happend with the Boixos Nois this year, how they kept lying and denying their presence until the game against Real Madrid and after that Cardoner still blamed Laporta saying that he should have eliminated them from the list of socios if he was so brave(though that was legally impossible), I stopped believing in Rosell.
but I'd wait the end of his term before fully assessing his mandate.
Unfortunatelly you won't have to wait so much. After last night's game and after tomorrow night(when we will probably fail to make it to the F4 of the CL at handball and Euroleague at basketball-though at the last one at least we still have a chance because we play the 5th game in Barcelona) Rosell is going to see how it is to have the Camp Nou against him and this time I don't think that Godo and Sport will be able help him. I wrote this yesterday:"if we lose with 4-0 or 5-0 maybe Rosell will realize that the team has certain needs, that some harsh decisions will have to be made and understand that what Laporta did in 2008 wasn't as easy as it looked"..and though I think that Rosell will wash his hands like he usually does, I hope that I am wrong this time.