João Laporta

[fergus90]

Wasting money on Dembele and Kessie and Raphina and God knows who else and they won't have the money to pay for Mbappe or Haaland. SMH these guys are clueless remember when we could have had Neymar back but we blew our money on Griezmann and others instead and then had no money for Neymar. Same thing now we won't have the money for Mbappe or Haaland or whoever.

Ridiculous random management. They have no plan. Just because Kessie was a free doesn't mean you have to sign him when you don't have any room for him to play... remember Pjanic. Laporte has learned nothing from Barto he is Barto #2!!!!

Why would he need to learn anything, he was president before Rossell or his incompetent puppet Maria Bartomeu took office.

The amount of disrespect Laporta gets is baffling. The man presided over the most successful Barca team in history.

 

[iniestaGOAT]

Koeman and Messi were handled disgracefully as was Etoo or Ronaldinho. So Laporta did this before. He also has little clue in getting us back in financial shape.

He creates a positive atmosphere and obviously can pick few key men to handle stuff. Sandro-,Frank,pep, Alemany-Xavi.

Still being corrupt too picking his friends and family.

What you mean bro Ronaldinho and eto love laporta. That was all pep.

 

[iniestaGOAT]

Good comments made by Laporta. Again he said we will not jeopardize the club over any signing (pretty much again confirmed we will not go crazy with Haaland). Even though I am a bit disappointed to hear that we are mostly likely out of the race but he is absolutely correct there.

Not disappointed at all. 100m in commission to his dad and his agent is ridiculous.

Haaland needs to realize he ain't mbappe

 

[jamrock]

He had nothing to do with dinho or eto'o, Messi could have been handled better but at the end of the day it was for the best.

Financial he was put in a impossible situation, idk who in the history of human everything could have done any better understand the circumstances.


Lastly I've been saying about the great joan Laporta for years now, when everyone was like oh it's this executive or that executive that's doing a great job, much like that are trying to do now, without giving him credit..


That's LITERALLY what great leaders do, they know how to put great talent around them to help executive their vision, it's the most basic & important part of the job description & he keeps doing it again & again.

The freaking board so said, who put that shit together bruvs? Who!.

Greatest president ever.

 

[FCBarca]

All you need to do is witness what we've seen over the course of 12 months, leadership in any field is crucial. You contrast to the rudderless & corrupt one of the previous decade that undid everything extraordinary that preceded it and you see how quickly you can unravel success with poor leadership

From there, it's a question of sporting decisions & financial balance as well and here again, Joan didn't ever need to be a PhD in economics or accounting but ensure competent people were assessing these areas and then ultimately weighing up whether it is actually good for the club and here again a leader that loves, lives & breathes blaugrana is the difference

There has never been any doubt, Laporta is the club's reigning king of leading our club - no one else comes close

 

[khaled_a_d]

Koeman and Messi were handled disgracefully as was Etoo or Ronaldinho. So Laporta did this before. He also has little clue in getting us back in financial shape.

He creates a positive atmosphere and obviously can pick few key men to handle stuff. Sandro-,Frank,pep, Alemany-Xavi.

Still being corrupt too picking his friends and family.

Ronaldinho? How so? Laporta coukd have sold him in 2007 for king's ransom and still bet on him, but R10 turned into alcoholic party man. He moved out gracefully tbh
Pep is the one who mishandled both Eto, R10 and to lesser extent Deco. Both Eto and Deco has very good relation with Laporta still, not sure about R10.
He mishandled Koeman and Messi, that is for sure

 

[Luftstalag14]

Great talent, so much hyperbole. With the exception of hiring Alemany and perhaps Xavi (Font?s idea intitially), Laporta is everything BUT hiring great talent and let them do their job, especially on the economic/financial side, particularly when it comes to growing the business. Not a single original idea, less than a handful of new sponsors to show for despite his bragging during his campaign, driving competent and good business people out of the club one after another and replacing them with his friends and family members. He is all about calling the shots himself. A dictator-president.

Espai Barca is still stalled without locating any funding, after Reverter?s departure. Yeah, let him keep bragging and saying we are doing great. Soon the reality will bite.

 

[iniestaGOAT]

Ronaldinho? How so? Laporta coukd have sold him in 2007 for king's ransom and still bet on him, but R10 turned into alcoholic party man. He moved out gracefully tbh
Pep is the one who mishandled both Eto, R10 and to lesser extent Deco. Both Eto and Deco has very good relation with Laporta still, not sure about R10.
He mishandled Koeman and Messi, that is for sure

Ronaldinho has a good relationship with laporta still. He is good with pep too. Eto talks shit about pep all the time though so we know pep wanted him gone.

 

[Bobo32]

All you need to do is witness what we've seen over the course of 12 months, leadership in any field is crucial. You contrast to the rudderless & corrupt one of the previous decade that undid everything extraordinary that preceded it and you see how quickly you can unravel success with poor leadership

From there, it's a question of sporting decisions & financial balance as well and here again, Joan didn't ever need to be a PhD in economics or accounting but ensure competent people were assessing these areas and then ultimately weighing up whether it is actually good for the club and here again a leader that loves, lives & breathes blaugrana is the difference

There has never been any doubt, Laporta is the club's reigning king of leading our club - no one else comes close

I believe Laporta is certainly 'good enough', but some of his decisions have looked a bit dubious to me, there are things that could be questioned.
There is an insane strength in the club and the squad however, and after 10 years of terrible and corrupt leadership, one year of good leadership will predictably lead to a great turnaround as we have seen. But I wonder if Font for example wouldn't be able to do an even better job...

 

[Luftstalag14]

Laporta on Espai Barca: “Everything is on course. We hope to get the licences in April. The schedule says there will be bidding in July, allocations in September. The thing is that now we’re examing the impact of the war in Ukraine on the project. We can’t ignore the fact that it’s made materials more expensive, interest rates have risen, and so we need to make sure that everything will still fit our plans. The war is having an effect and to a certain extent means reappraising things."

How it that “on course” anyways? I think the original plan is to start the works this summer, not start bidding in July and allocations in September, this essentially means it is getting delayed yet again as the works probably can’t be done in the middle of the next season. The summer would have been a great window to start working on it when Camp Nou is idle.

Also, does “reappraising” mean cutting corners? If there are more changes, it might mean the licensing process will be prolonged from the city hall. There have already been reports previously saying the reason why we have not obtained all the permits etc. from the city is because Laporta made changes again to the design.

Laporta omitted the fact that we haven’t secured the 1.5b funding yet, so how the heck we are going to start working on it is beyond me.

 

[serghei]

Luft, I don't get it, why do you hate Laporta so much? Isn't the no1 job of a President to make sure the team is evolving? He is doing that, so what if he wants to rely on people he knows?

Laporta is Florentino Perez' match. Bartomeu was way out of his league. Now we match with Madrid well at the top in terms of management. Neither Florentino, nor Laporta are perfect by any means, but they know the sport. They know how to set up successful projects. All Bartomeu did was to sign superstars only for later to become their puppet. Then one of them left for a higher bidder, and his project got the club in ruins.

You may not like Laporta, but he's a different league to the likes of Bartomeu. He actually has a spine and is prepared to take the harsh decisions that serve the club instead of the players.

Laporta is here for 6 months in effect and we already are on the up with minimum investments. Everything else is secondary. This is what counts, for the team to evolve and compete with the best of the best. Money will come in time as a result of that.

 

[serghei]

I agree with every decision he took, and whatever mistakes he made, are understandable and of aesthetic nature. What matters is the effect. Messi needed to be gone, and he's gone. The team was screaming for a top manager for many years, and the man he selected is apparently Pep's heir (early, but going that direction). That's 2/2 critical calls spot on from Laporta.

He needs to extend Gavi in particular, but Araujo as well, on beneficial terms for the club. Sign Raphinha to replace Dembele and we're cooking. Almost an ideal course after 1 year since losing Messi.

The only way Laporta takes a hit for me is if we lose a super-talent like Gavi.

 

[fergus90]

Stadium plans are of course needed but the most important thing for a football club, is to actually be good on the pitch.

Espai Barca would have been a disaster when Barca kept sliding down in status amongst Europe’s elite and there’s no reason for the next generation to follow the club.

All that stadium money and it would be half empty because no tourist is travelling to watch an Abde-Jutgla frontline.

 

[serghei]

Stadium plans are of course needed but the most important thing for a football club, is to actually be on the good pitch.

Espai Barca would have been a disaster when Barca kept sliding down in status amongst Europe’s elite and there’s no reason for the next generation to follow the club.

All that stadium money and it would be half empty because no tourist is travelling to watch an Abde-Jutgla frontline.

Yeah, we should be cool-headed and not led Madrid's stadium to get us in a frenzy to rush our own project.

The biggest problem is Laporta will probably set the foundation and get the team rolling again, lose the election in not too distant future, and another Nunista like Bartomeu who hates Cruyffism will pummel it down again, trying to set this own "legacy" by destroying everything Laporta related. Then Xavi is training Manchester City in 2026 and we again start to hire bums and spend money on wannabe stars. This is a very possible future.

 

[neo_wolf]

Some people forget Laporta did not want to hire Xavi at all, He was forced to hire him by the board, press and fans.