Yeah, Barca are still living in a bit of a fantasy land as to what they can do in the market. I mean, have they even been able to sign Christensen yet?
Bartomeu makes Woodward's financial spending and football transfer strategy seem almost reasonable in comparison.
Well its Més que un club. How do you beat that?! If you are going to feck up, make sure its some serious clusterfeck. Otherwise don't bother.
Let's just hope this Arnold fella is up to it so we get our rightful place back at the top of the mount doom of feck ups.
Like any management fixes, it will always be tough to see any real positive changes from the outside for another few years. Change of culture, restructuring the org/chart like players on bloated contract extensions. Not easy to get rid of people and bring in the right folks.
I actually have rather high hopes for him, so far he has been decent I think.
Cant be worse than Woodward -- great at generating revenues but useless at spending it wisely. Blew 1.25 billion quid and little to show for it.
As much damage that prick did were at least not as bad as Barcelona having to beg for money and such, I give him that.
It is very suspicious that when the financial disaster was reported and the club's associates/owners were gathering to kick Bartomeu out, La Liga's president Javier Tebas(who is a self-proclaimed madridista) spoke in public to defend Bartomeu and said it was all due to covid. Despite being the only spanish team in such a mess he insisted it was all because of the outbreak. However, now that we have Laporta, every time we set our eyes on a player, like Lewandovsky, Tebas appears in public to say we are broke and can't do it. The president of La Liga constantly trying to sabotage its most popular team. Even Laporta has already spoken out to ask him to shut the feck up.
Very banana republic.
Barcelona's problem is the FFP, not money itself.
I dont think this is true. Our wage bill is at a healthy rate while Barca literally couldn’t afford to pay wages a few times over the last 18 months
Still, the money you lot handed out was insane.
Indeed. La liga is a disgrace. Having a president who clearly supports one team. Imagine having Gerrard as the head of the Premier League...
I would start watching the Slovakian League. Gerrard is just too painful to listen to -- so nasal and ok, he has toned down his scouse accent but it's still tough to listen to. They just needed to play him with appropriate partners.
My aut correct never fails to embaress me, does it
The FFP of the Spanish league says that if the last few years you have had losses you must recover them and with the pandemic almost all the clubs have had.
We all know where Barcelona's problem came from, now the debate is the current state and how Barcelona can solve it.
You are right but in one thing. Tebas doesn't do that because he is a madrid fan, or because he wants to destroy barca. Even he in his narrow mindset knows how important a rival is or else LaLiga becomes a 2nd bundesliga and then its good game for good. He does it because he wants barca to sign the cvc deal he proposed. For sure he made a deal with Bartomeu to sign the cvc and saw already his 10 % commission money. I'm guessing +-30m, if barca would have received 300. Now with Laporta in play, no cvc, no 10% commission. So he wants to blackmail and to pressure Laporta and the club with his daily rants about our finance situation. That's also the reason he doesn't accept the cvc deal barca made, which is btw. much better than his, because he wont get a commission on it. I don't understand, why our club doesn't sue him.
This doesn’t make sense. Barcelona aren’t a victim of FFP where they have money but can’t spend it, they literally have none. No liquidity at all. The board and president are saying this. They need 500m to simply survive.
The FFP in Spain is like this. And of course it does not make sense, the league after the pandemic should make a personalized plan to each club, so that it gradually lowers the salary bill and does not have to do it in a year and also recover the losses.
Where does Barcelona continue to spend? In one year the wage bill was already reduced a lot.
Not signing anybody and miss CL football not getting all the money that it entails in prizes and sponsonships is a better solution.
It's not so difficult to understand.
It'd be good if you could remind Tebas he's supposed to be a madridista then
Barca doesn’t need Lewa etc to get top 4. They already came second with a rag tag squad.
Having a player like Lewandowski, in addition to the sports section, makes the club have more visibility and that other great players want to come.
Barca doesn’t need Lewa for visibility. They’re a football Institution.
Guys I get you can't buy anyone but how about not trying to buy players who want 500k+ pw like Lewa or constantly talking about bringing Neymar and or Messi back. It's also not like you can't finish at least in a CL spot in La Liga with the current squad. Freshen up with some talents, don't pay crazy wages for a while, and you'll still be good.
Was it Tebas who spent 600+ million on flop players and handed over insane contracts? It was so insane that it was not sustainable, Barca members said after all the paycuts their wage bill is still double that of Bayern, that's just insane.
Surely there has to be some investigation on Bartomeu & team on their gross mishandling/mismanagement -- and possible corrupt practises during his reign?
Isn’t he in jail because of it?
Oh... I didn't realise it. Thought he just got voted out.
