At a minimum, a series of gross miscalculations of well intentioned strategies that were poorly executed
Club has to be run by collaborative leadership with expertise in different sectors - I have the impression there is a concerning absence of sufficient council to Laporta. Deco the agent does not yet give any indication he has the chops to be a SD much level one at a level required at a club like Barça
But the planning & quality assurance sectors missed the boat on city permits for Camp Nou and vendor qualification for tour, leaving them with a cold shower on top of the unnecessary media coverage it triggered
The Limak criticism doesn’t justify to much disdain for me at the moment as this sounds increasingly like a labor issue but it does reveal the oversight was poor to again ensure the quality of workforce was not a risk. But that risk exists in every industry and frankly delays are part of business
The Ter Stegen one is an odd one. I can get the strategy to want him out with the abrupt pursuit of Joan Garcia but surely there was a well conceived strategy to address Mats as a result. Because they must’ve known about the back since last season and that surgery may have been on the table but has every thing been banking on it simply being his WC season? At worst, surely they considered club would be stuck with Mats and accept not playing. Again, feels poorly executed despite how well intentioned the sporting strategy — that’s a real shame the way it is a major distraction now. And frankly, Laporta was the driver behind this and has to accept the blowback for how the Mats thing plays out
The infamous 1:1 and what more or less was what Tebas likely confirmed to Nico & his agent in that infamous rendezvous before pulling out of Barça deal. Something related to the VIP seats continued to be at issue to prevent registering payments and now even the proportion of completed seats required - that bit a bit bizarre in accounting terms, very much a Liga/Tebas bullying criteria demands. This feels more like miscalculation on what would be validated and when which impacted everything after. Here collaborative discussions with sufficient expertise is clearly lacking. At a minimum, his board needs improvement/support in terms of relevant expertise. Feels painfully lacking
On the heels of the Nico debacle, makes you wonder how forced this Rashford transfer was in terms of timing. I suspect he was always coming but were the terms impacted by that urgency? No specific details yet confirmed by club despite variable rumoured ones on social media of 10-14M in gross wages. The penalty clause as an accounting hack for FFP is fine, but this too yet to be confirmed
He’s taken some hits that he could’ve avoided if they were better executed from the beginning to anticipate what city requirements would’ve been needed by when etc. But again, delays in construction are the norm rather than an objective failure. Don’t promise what you can’t deliver