Joan Laporta

[DonAK]

What choice would anyone else have had?

That is the point.

On one hand cant make out decisions saved club and in next say had no other choice.

Yes.

He's not some Messiah.

In fact if he didn't have all those corruption scandals with the Kazakhs, ruin his relationships with all the prominent members of his board and actually cared to groom a successor maybe Rosell wouldn't have won in 2010 in a landslide vote.

In some way he bears some responsibility of Rosell/Bartomeu's disastrous term too since the way he fucked everything up despite great sporting success led to them getting elected easily.

 

[serghei]

As said.. from open play Sorloth has similar to Lewa in La Liga and not a great players and in poorer sides and playing same minutes.

22/23 - Truly amazing achievement to be top scorer in La Liga with 23 goals when Reals main starting CF is Joselu and Atletis is and ageing Griezmann. Amazing work.
23/24 - Phenomenal stuff to score less for Barca than Dovbyk does for Girona and Sorloth does for Villareal. Amazing work.

Truly are years worth 150m for.

Maybe you need to look at strikers signed by other teams for big big money. And how shite they were. The you'd go around and learn to appreciate what Lewandowski offered.

Because almost the entire EPL signed only bum strikers by this metric.

 

[JamDav1982]

Maybe you need to look at what strikers signed by other teams for big big money. And how shite they were. The you'd go around and learn to appreciate what Lewandowski offered.

Maybe you need to learn to not gush over striker for out scoring Joselu at Real Madrid and scoring less than Dovbyk at Girona and Sorloth at Villareal.

Other strikers being 'shite' has no relevance to what Lewa has done. No more so than strikers that have done very well.

 

[serghei]

Maybe you need to learn to not gush over striker for out scoring Joselu at Real Madrid and scoring less than Dovbyk at Girona and Sorloth at Villareal.

Don't have to. Lewandowski averaged about 35 goals per season for 3 seasons. Don't have concern myself with weaker players who didn't even get near that.

All I have to look is players who got to these scoring numbers. And all are players we couldn't have signed. So, very simple for me to see Lewandowski as a good deal. Unlike chums like Darwin Nunez, Hojlund, or whatever dross those EPL teams signed in the last years .

 

[JamDav1982]

Don't have to. Lewandowski averaged about 35 goals per season for 3 seasons. Don't have concern myself with weaker players who didn't even get near that.

All I have to look is players who got to these scoring numbers. And all are players we couldn't have signed. So, very simple.

He averages 23 goals a season prior to this in La Liga and has done next to nothing in CL latter stages or helped Barca win the cup.

For a sole CF and starter at Barca on majority of penalties.

Top stuff.

Go gush over how he finished as 3rd top scorer to players at Giona and Villareal again.

Less goals per min in La Liga than Auba, LDJ and Ferran while been CF.

Less goals/assists v Real and Atleti in league than Ferran.

Amazing work.

 

[serghei]

And if people think Laporta only did what he could've done, basically walked on the one path handed to him, boy they undermine how resourceful human mind is at doing stupid things.

 

[JamDav1982]

Sacking Xavi when usuals claimed Xavi was a top coach and would be at club for year was a good move.

Took his time but got there.

On Lewa.. lets see if the next CF can average 20 goals and 5 assists a season from open play in La Liga or if it is such a high high bar set by Lewa.

Seeing as Lewa failed to date on 'we need these players to compete in Europe top table' and did nothing to help win the one cup club has won.. lets see what comparisons are for La Liga.

Failures under Xavi in Europe probably set the club back 150m odd and being long past worrying about 1:1.

Spefically the Europa defeat to Frakfurt.

 

[jamrock]

He's no Saint.
But he's won, brought us back to being a respectable name in Europe on the pitch.
Massively improved our finances.

These are just facts.

No about of talking can change that

 

[serghei]

Sacking Xavi when usuals claimed Xavi was a top coach and would be at club for year was a good move.

Took his time but got there.

On Lewa.. lets see if the next CF can average 20 goals and 5 assists a season from open play in La Liga or if it is such a high high bar set by Lewa.

Seeing as Lewa failed to date on 'we need these players to compete in Europe top table' and did nothing to help win the one cup club has won.. lets see what comparisons are for La Liga.

Failures under Xavi in Europe probably set the club back 150m odd and being long past worrying about 1:1.

Spefically the Europa defeat to Frakfurt.

Well, if he's any good, the striker would be on pk duty, so you won't have to do that "from open play" caveat. Wonder what is Kane and Haaland open play stats. Is it much higher than Lewandowski's?

Maybe JamDav would get Luuk de Jong and Aubameyang among the best in the world from open play per minutes played.

 

[JamDav1982]

Finances could only be improved.

He can also thank the players he was left to help rebuild with.. Yamal/Pedri and many more.

Can be happy was left the likes of BLM that he himself says was visionary and will continue to make club a lot of money.

Most of all he can thank the likes of Messi and Xavi for the Barca brand that helped more to 'save' the club than he ever could.

 

[JamDav1982]

Well, if he's any good, the striker would be on pk duty, so you won't have to do that "from open play" caveat. Wonder what is Kane and Haaland open play stats. Is it much higher than Lewandowski's?

No.. Yamal will be on pens.

What an awful argument.

Given that Lewa open play stats are worse than Auba and LDJ time at Barca and Ferrans that is easiest comparison.

Can add pens if you prefer.. makes it 23 goals a season.

Also we dont get to ignore this season either once it is complete

 

[serghei]

No.. Yamal will be on pens.

True, we'll probably not sign Kane.

 

[JamDav1982]

True, we'll probably not sign Kane.

Indeed.

 

[Windhook]

However let's not make him out to be some Messiah either. He has a tonne of flaws and so does his board. It's why a sizeable part of the fans will look to vote for the alternative, even when the biggest sports papers in Barcelona in Mundo Deportivo and Sport have been pro-Laporta after he repaired his relationship with them a few years ago.

If Victor Font didn't have the personality of a nerd and didn't keep making statements shooting himself in the foot he might have given him a fight.

Laporta has his flaws and created many enemies in recent years. But I have to give him credit for his resilience facing all adversaries that wanted to hurt the club. And he overcame all those.

Victor Font - no one will ever know what he's capable of. Promises transparency and honesty. Well, those don't work anymore in politics. Empty.

 

[JamDav1982]

Laporta has his flaws and created many enemies in recent years. But I have to give him credit for his resilience facing all adversaries that wanted to hurt the club. And he overcame all those.

Victor Font - no one will ever know what he's capable of. Promises transparency and honesty. Well, those don't work anymore in politics. Empty.

Yet folk claim officials Tebas are hurting club near on every week...

Who has Laporta 'faced' with such reslience?

He has been on and off best mates with Perez and Tebas from one week to the next.

Did he sort out UEFA? Or just take the 15m fine and accept it?