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Unfortunately, both candidates are going to do a shit job in the first year or 2 because we're in massive debt. They don't have much of a squad to work with and they have no money to rebuild properly. They also have a hard job of reducing the debt by a lot in the first year. They have to come up...

We can convince all the young players we want, but that won't change our debt. We have to pay 266m euros by the 30th of June to the banks.... we have to pay a further 160m euros by the end of the year (that's a total of 420m euros to paid by the end of the year). Yeah, we could work some type...

I said this the other day and got bashed for it. He was lucky to have players like Puyol, Pique, Valdes, Cesc, Messi, Iniesta and Xavi in the same generation. It's very lucky and rare to get that amount of talent from your youth system. He then got lucky with Pep being such a good manager. Who...

Font is absolutely right about Laporta. He hasn't got a sporting project, he's just relying on past players to help his case.

That's what it is. He's just relying on his past glory and the Barcelona DNA to win his case. It'll most likely win the election for him, but I have major doubts about his project.

Then that won't be us. We can't afford to give him a big salary or signing-on fee when we're in so much debt, especially when we have the biggest wage budget in the world. We need to release the big earners before we can think about bringing a big superstar in. Also, he won't have an exit...

We cannot afford to have Alaba and Haaland in the same squad when we have Messi, Griezmann, Coutinho and Dembele on the team. Haaland and Alaba's salary alone will put us close to bankruptcy if we have Dembele, Griezmann, Messi and Coutinho. We would need to offload 3 big earners in our team to...

We really cannot sell anyone of real value. No teams will be looking to sign the likes of Dembele, Griezmann or Coutinho. They'd cost too much and they'll be on big wages. We're also in much worse shape than we were under Rosell. Haaland will not come to a club that's going through a big...

Spot on. That's what some people are not realizing. Also, we have to pay Messi a 33m loyalty bonus in the summer. If we were to resign him, we would have to pay him a big signing-on fee..... unless he waives both the loyalty bonus and the signing-on fee, which I doubt see him doing. If Messi...

Not really. His "sporting project" is about bringing in Barcelona's DNA past players and hoping they'll fix this mess.... even those people like Xavi, Iniesta and Puyol have no experience with dealing with this crap. He's then talking about focusing on La Masia (which is good), but you need to...

So, Laporta doesn't have a sporting project and is waffling on about keeping Messi happy? Got it.

I'm not sure why they were even defending in the first place. If you put pressure on this Barcelona team, you're more likely to score. Sitting back and letting Barcelona have possession isn't the way to go.

Unfortunately, revenue is going to drop regardless due to COVID. We lost over 100m euros last year because of COVID. We still owe money to Liverpool and Ajax for Coutinho and de Jong. We have to pay a huge sum in the summer to the banks. Yeah, we can restructure our loans, but that's only going...

They honestly don't care. It's like when we got embarrassed against Roma, Liverpool and Bayern Munich, they just smile and laugh about it in the next training session.

The 3 players stealing a living here.

It really doesn't matter if he's an investment, we simply do not have the money to make that type of investment. We're close to bankruptcy, and I'm pretty sure we have to pay a big chunk of debt off in the summer (not to mention, we also have to pay Messi his 33m loyalty bonus in the summer). We...

I'm speaking the truth. People talk about him saving the club, but he still spent enough money to do it. He spent over 450m euros in his time here and only got back 142m euros. He got players like Pique, Henry, Eto'o and Ronaldinho in for pretty cheap, but the transfer market was different...

That's very possible. The problem is.... we're in massive debt and he would have to take about a 70% salary reduction. We also have to give him another signing-on fee and another 33m from his loyalty bonus. They would also need to promise him big signings, which we can't due to having no money...

They cannot sign Messi due to FFP. They just lost 200m euros in revenue due to COVID, and they also lost a lot of money from their TV deal. Besides, there are no guarantees that Di Maria will be there in the summer. They can't also sign Suarez if they sign Messi. They more than likely have to...

Laporta was the luckiest president in Barcelona's history. Look at the youth system he had to work with. He still spent a lot of money back then. The 2003/2004 squad he had to start off with was a better team overall than the one we have now. It just got better and better for him because of the...