Windhook
Well-known member
Elaborate on that, please.
Barca presidential election 2026
- Thread starter Andresito
- Start date
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
1:1 is a bit of a choice that I doubt Laporta would make.
He pushes our salaries to the limit, and hence, every mercato we are struggling with making room for transfers.
Even when we had money to spend in 202, we still had those struggles, for guys like Alonso and Bellerin.
Obviously we can make arguments about spending more wisely etc, but those things are rarely done with 100% accuracy.
Same criteria for Font btw, if a miracle happens and he wins.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Ability to spend.
Winning in Europe.. or at least going close.
Not fucking up the La Masia he inherited.
Improving finances and Nike/Spotify deals not being dated.
Taking advantage of BLM that he was left that is said be expected to generate a lot.
Not leaving club with problems financially to overcome when leaves.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
No need.. He inherited the best ever group of La Masia players twice.
He and Rossel both let La Masia get dated for how it trains players from a young age to come through before it was brought back up to date in 2014/15.
Hopefully we can see players joining at a young age under him and coming all way through as seen in recent years.
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Apparently, Olmo is the player who supported Laporta the most and pushed the players to go and vote for him. Mainly because of Font's criticism of him being signed. According to Ferran Martinez
JamDav1982
Senior Member
No no the players to a man absolutely love Laporta.. thats what we get told on here anyway.
Some folk on here wanted 'Barcas best midfielder' Gundo to stay rather than Olmo also so Font not alone.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Would you see it as a failure of Laportas 2nd time at club if the club need to turn to external investment to keep pace with rivals?
Windhook
Well-known member
First term was normal process of integrating some of the best players in the academy. Messi, Pique and Busquets, there were also Bojans and Joffrens that never made it. Iniesta pre-dates Laporta. By 2010 Laporta was gone. The real trouble of La Masia getting outdated started with Rosell. Who graduated from La Masia in the 2010's? One name - Sergi Roberto. Thiago Alcantara didn't even really play for Barca in serious.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Indeed as said... La Masia under Laporta and Rossel fell off and became dated.
It takes years for the changes to show through....what players in La Masia as youngsters under Laporta or from the system they put in place made it?
Likes of Busi was a top find but he arrived at Barca at same age as Pedri so a bit of a stretch to claim he was a product of he la masia system.
La Masia fell off under Laporta and Rossel badly and was revamped in 2014/15.
Other teams had started to copy it and come in more for similar players and Barca dropped off.
khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Did he won? I though they are still counting.
So regardless of who wins, likely Laporta, I would prefer it if we keep it as a fan owned club for for foreseeable future, but I understand that it is very likely to happen in our life time that an external investment happens.
I won't consider it a failure, but it will be disappointing if it happens in the 2030's.
And it is something I actually agree with you btw, that Laporta would never pull the trigger on it, but is setting the table for it to happen in the future, same way he did with jersey sponsors.
However, do you think if it was someone else, we would have been in a totally different path? I think a businessman like Font wouldn't be completely allergic to it either. I don't buy that he would make our revenue 1.65B as he says.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Yes he has won.
Laporta failing to keep club owned wouldnt be a failure....
Wild. It is the basis of his campaign.
If Laporta puts Barca in position of paying lever money for decades and then still sells off part of club that could have avoided that in first place and had these tighter spending years for no reason then it is a huge failure.
Laporta failing to keep club owned wouldnt be a failure....
Wild. It is the basis of his campaign.
If Laporta puts Barca in position of paying lever money for decades and then still sells off part of club that could have avoided that in first place and had these tighter spending years for no reason then it is a huge failure.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
70% in some apparently.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Re-elected.. Like Barto in 2015.
Windhook
Well-known member
Barto was elected just once.
This is the fourth time Laporta is getting elected - 2003, 2006, 2021 and 2026.
Home of Barca Fans
