Joan Laporta

[Messigician]

🚨🎙️| Joan Laporta, on Xavi's dismissal:

“Xavi had announced his departure himself, saying he would leave at the end of the season. Then he asked to meet me at my home to explain that, in reality, he wanted to continue and felt the need to. I asked him only one question: ‘Xavi, do you believe in the team?’ He replied: ‘I believe 100% — I’ll make these players champions.’

A week later, I heard him say in a press conference that he and the team would need two years to be competitive. I thought: ‘What is this?’

He later spoke with Deco about the possibility of changing several first-team players. As you know, I have a lot of respect for Xavi, and his words affected me deeply. We’ve had to make tough decisions before with Messi, Alba, Busquets, Piqué, even with Xavi and Koeman… but at Barça, the institution always comes first. It is above the players, the presidents, and the coaches.” #fcblive

Xavi had to go

 

[FCBarca]

Xavi had to go

There’s no debating the value of that outcome despite how painful

 

[Messigician]

🚨 Florentino Pérez: “It is NOT normal for Barcelona to PAY the Vice-President of the Referees more than €8 MILLION over 17 YEARS, whatever the reason. It coincides, coincidentally, with Barcelona's best sporting era.”

Mask off comment

 

[Devils]

At this point any stadium would boo that clown Araujo out the stadium.

Won’t be the case at the LGBTQ Camp Nou under this clown

 

[jamrock]

Boss doesn't take losing.

If a area can be strengthen he will do it.

Maybe in January, definitely in the summer

 

[JamDav1982]

Usual nonsense.

Laporta is paying huge money for Lewa who cant run and has likes of Kounde at RB and Araujo CB.

Never been dealt with just like the DM.

 

[DonAK]

Boss doesn't take losing.

If a area can be strengthen he will do it.

Maybe in January, definitely in the summer

Well let's hope the boss doesn't spend the entire budget on Kane, a 30m salary and fat commission to Pini Zahavi.

 

[jamrock]

Well let's hope the boss doesn't spend the entire budget on Kane, a 30m salary and fat commission to Pini Zahavi.

I sure hope not.

 

[Devils]

Usual nonsense.

Laporta is paying huge money for Lewa who cant run and has likes of Kounde at RB and Araujo CB.

Never been dealt with just like the DM.

He’s building a resume as humiliating as Barto did in Europe too.

Terrible squad planning all around .

 

[JamDav1982]

Folk actually think Lewa and Kounde were top signings.

150m for Lewa over 4 years while lose a player who has pace and wins CL/Balondor at CF.

 

[MonteCuler]

We won't strengthen shit

He will tell Flick to rely on Martin for CB and maybe get some kids from the academy

 

[Givenchy]

Folk actually think Lewa and Kounde were top signings.

150m for Lewa over 4 years while lose a player who has pace and wins CL/Balondor at CF.

Dembele wasn't going to evolve here that much was clear.

Agree on Lewa

 

[Devils]

We won't strengthen shit

He will tell Flick to rely on Martin for CB and maybe get some kids from the academy

Just like his supporters were preaching this summer about how we didn’t need to sign defenders and how players like Joffre Torrents would be useful for depth.

Lmao

 

[khaled_a_d]

Just like his supporters were preaching this summer about how we didn’t need to sign defenders and how players like Joffre Torrents would be useful for depth.

Lmao

This goes beyond Laporta or his supporters though, and I don't mean it to defend Laporta.

It is a systematic issue in the club and its fanbase, period. Even today most of the fanbase care more about LW when we have Rapha, and will have Lewa's replacement as priority.

The club rarely valued defenders that much, they always gets cheap when it comes to defense. Get a free agent, a cheap signing, or change a midfielder position, promote a kid, whatever. Let's save money for attacking player to appease the fans.

Barca DNA is total football, that defenders must know how to pass, but isn’t really that total when we ask attackers to defend, or even defenders to defend properly.

Even Laporta's current rival, Font, is trying to sell fans he will bring Halaand.

We simply don't appreciate defense enough to care. They will promote Hafiz Gariba, Torrents or whichever defender capable of making a nice pass and call it a day.

 

[jamrock]

Defending is objectively the easiest thing to do in football, so it makes sense. Lol