Josep Maria Bartomeu

[Andresito]

there are around 141k socios. You need 2/3 of them to vote out this board in the next round (it comes to 94k votes). What do you mean "we don't"

No that's wrong, it's totally unrealistic if that was the case.

 

[Zebulun]

Too little too late. Even if this passes, he's still not going to be out here till months anyway. By the time he leaves, the elections will be in March in any case.

What the hell is a new board going to do at this point? We're in huge debt and have no money to rebuild the squad. It's not like they can magically remove our debt and have decent money for transfers. It's going to take years before we even become somewhat stable and competitive again.

All this effort to remove someone who is leaving in 6 months is kinda pointless.

think you're looking at it from the wrong angle. we were in shitloads of debt prior to covid and now with no fans in stadiums even more so. its been already said that bartomeu is only staying on to cook the books so he and the board would not be made to pay out of pocket. the purpose of the motion if anything is to remove the ability from them to make any more long lasting damaging decisions. we all know this board is dumb especially with contract signing.who knows what plan they had to cover that debt, sell the naming rights for peanuts for 100years etc?

 

[Vilarrubi]

Barto when presented with the 16000 signatures: Bots signed them.

 

[Birdy]

Barto deserves to get voted out by a historic record amount of soci votes in the midst of a pandemic even when there are no fans in attending games.

Barto's legacy deserves this humiliation.

He deserves that and on the top of that:
being held legally accountable for the financial mess he put the club into.

Seeing Barto in jail like his buddy Rossell would be an immense joy

 

[TheStig]

Will this next phase referendum last a couple of weeks, days, hours?

 

[Jakabor]

There are some quite knowledgeable people in here. Can you answer this..

How does Bartomeu have this control over Sport and Mundo Deportivo? As shown right now by complete absence of the motion of no confidence.

Aren?t these independent newspaper that should cover news objectively?

Is it just Bartomeu? Or did former Barca presidents have this control too?

 

[Sterlingfan2000]

There are some quite knowledgeable people in here. Can you answer this..

How does Bartomeu have this control over Sport and Mundo Deportivo? As shown right now by complete absence of the motion of no confidence.

Aren?t these independent newspaper that should cover news objectively?

Is it just Bartomeu? Or did former Barca presidents have this control too?

They probably have received huge cash or have some insider working there. Sport also have some Connection to the Neymar family

Sport and Mundo should be banned

 

[George_Costanza]

Only a minimum of 10% of the total socis are needed to be present to vote for the phase 2. From those minimum 10%, we need 2/3 vote to cast Bartomeu aside.

 

[George_Costanza]

No that's wrong, it's totally unrealistic if that was the case.

If it was that easy, vote of no confidence would have worked before. It never did because it's not that easy.

 

[FCBfan22]

But if all Socios must vote, I doubt more than 1/3 of them would vote for Barto.

 

[soul24rage]

What's the source of your information?

My source came from the official FC Barcelona website with the Club Statutes of 2018

https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club/organisation-and-strategic-plan/commissions-and-bodies/statutes

Article 55.5 paragraph 3 (PDF file pg. number 45). The PDF file is in Catalan, below is the translated version.

https://twitter.com/DianaKristinne/status/1306249604392988677/photo/3

 

[Birdy]

Ok, this is getting frustrating.

Could someone provide any reliable information whether what Khaled says is correct or what George_Costanza says?

Edit: @soul24rage Thanks!

This makes it clear. It's 'of the votes' not of the 'total number of socios'
Meaning there is more than good chance.

 

[Vilarrubi]

Seems soul24rage is right. This is from Barca website:

“The vote of no confidence will only be accepted if two thirds or more of the votes are in its favour, as long as the number of these is a minimum of 10 percent of the members of the club”


So it’s 2/3rds of the votes collected.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

 

[Birdy]

Now that it's clear how feasible it is to vote them out when it comes to numbers, you can anticipate that Barto and his gang will not take it lightly.
They will take up the challenge, and do everything possible to block and sabotage the next steps before voting of no confidence can take place:
Either invalidating some signatures through the special body ('Table for the Vote of No Confidence') formed for that purpose
Or making sure an assembly to vote the board out cannot be called in the midst of the pandemic.

Be ready: It will get as dirty as possible.
We saw how ruthless Barto was with Messi, but above all how ruthless he was with making sure they will even destroy the club to not get held liable for financial mishandling.
This is a war for them.

 

[khaled_a_d]

For the record, I think it is highly unlikely that 10% of Socios will show up in the voting. Will give it less than 30% chance
It will be more of moral loss, that could make political pressure on them to resign