Sandro Rosell

[Cule Angles]

http://www.barcaloco.com/news_article/show/46333?referrer_id=138024

But all the events etc. were planned and put in place by the previous board, contracts signed etc. etc. What exactly could the new board have done differently?

 

[Beast]

Planning Adam is his responsibility tbh , for a man with a marketing background this is a big failure .
probably those he selected are responsible for the PR disaster but it remains his choice of assistants and people in charge
sure he know for a while now about Barca schedule a little data on an A4 paper about Korea would have come handy .. and pre-game planning about the contract obligations instead of messi will or will not play

 

[Cule Angles]

Planning Adam is his responsibility tbh , for a man with a marketing background this is a big failure .
probably those he selected are responsible for the PR disaster but it remains his choice of assistants and people in charge
sure he know for a while now about Barca schedule a little data on an A4 paper about Korea would have come handy .. and pre-game planning about the contract obligations instead of messi will or will not play

There are certainly aspects of what happened that Rosell's people take the blame for, but there were clearly inadequacies about this stage in the tour as a whole that are down to what was put in place by the previous board and the events management firm they employed to manage the events. It's uncharacteristic of Sandro for an event like this to go off so badly, this kind of thing is his speciality and what he's been very successful in doing all his life so it's certainly a surprise.

 

[el tren]

I can safely predict now that you won't ever give Rosell his dues, you will be sitting there giving Laporta all the credit for any success that befalls the club during Rosell's tenure. I criticise you and people of the same ilk because you have zero objectivity and your minds have been made up since before Rosell even took office. You especially are like a one track record and it's depressing to see people with such small minds attach themselves to the club. When antirosellistes start building a case against him that's actually based on facts, not their own deluded interpretation of events, then I may listen to what they have to say.

Well, he failed to sign Cesc, which is undeniably a fact. And its also fairly true that he was Peps prime target. And i still wonder how its not a fact that he promised to return Cesc this year in case he wins the presidents election? Unfortunately its tough to google for sources from before the election, as there are a shitload of articles on the web with the obvious keywords. Still found a few (more reliable) that are grounding the 'fact' (more or less):

Now, with Laporta unable to stand for re-election, Alfons Godall and Sandro Rosell are both using Fabregas’s name as the marquee signing they will deliver if elected. Further, with Castilian rivals Real Madrid sniffing around, Barcelona’s prospective presidents would be loathed to see a son of Catalonia fall into enemy hands.

http://www.footballfancast.com/2010...fabregas-and-barcelona-really-need-each-other

This is presidential election year at Barcelona so the focus on potential summer signings has intensified. Sandro Rosell, the former Nike executive seeking to oust his former friend Joan Laporta this summer, is close to the Fabregas family and has spoken publicly about his desire to take him back.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...abregas-the-touchstone-for-Arsene-Wenger.html

Sources close to Rosell have hinted that a pledge to bring Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas back to the Nou Camp will be one of his central campaigning tenets.

http://www.worldfootballinsider.com/Story.aspx?id=32967

But Rosell won the Nou Camp presidential election on the back of promising the fans he would land the Catalan-born star.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football...oss-Sandro-Rosell-s-vow-to-sign-Cesc-Fabregas

 

[Cule Angles]

You're quoting the Daily Star? If you had followed the election campaign in any detail you would know that Cesc was anything but a cornerstone of the campaign, if you'd read the manifestos or listened to the debates you'd know he barely featured in the election. Your relationship with the truth is summed up by the fact that you reach for the Daily Star lol to back up your claims.

 

[shann]

Q: You have said that you agree that the club signs players now.
ROSELL: I hope that if Cesc and Villa are signed, that this is done for the good of the club, because Pep has decided that and that we do not pay more than they're worth.

 

[Barcafan 2304]

Im actually impressed with Rosell's stance over this. Paying over the odds for players isnt on and cant be sustained. Im glad to see him rein it in a wee bit

 

[tk_TommyKim]

I think Cesc is worth 50mil, to be honest, but the lad wanted to leave. We offered a chunk of money (30mil isn't something you take out of your pocket), and it was really all on Arsenal to not let him leave when he said a thousand times that he wants to go to Barcelona. Shame on Wenger.

 

[el tren]

You're quoting the Daily Star? If you had followed the election campaign in any detail you would know that Cesc was anything but a cornerstone of the campaign, if you'd read the manifestos or listened to the debates you'd know he barely featured in the election. Your relationship with the truth is summed up by the fact that you reach for the Daily Star lol to back up your claims.

Maybe you start backing up your 'facts' now, otherwise i dont know why i should believe you. Actually its very apparent to me that you are the one telling the lies ...

Q: You have said that you agree that the club signs players now.
ROSELL: I hope that if Cesc and Villa are signed, that this is done for the good of the club, because Pep has decided that and that we do not pay more than they're worth.

Value is subjective. He is prolly right when he said that they didnt want to may more than he is worth to them. That however seems less than he is worth to Arsenal, which is why they didnt sell him. Still Barca only has to pay marginally more than he is worth to Arsenal. I hope i didnt confuse you now.

 

[Cule Angles]

Maybe you start backing up your 'facts' now, otherwise i dont know why i should believe you. Actually its very apparent to me that you are the one telling the lies ...

It's extremely obvious that Cesc wasn't a cornerstone of the campaign, that's not to say that he wasn't mentioned once or twice but there was never a promise and the campaign was very much centred on the club itself, not transfers. Read Rosell's manifesto, watch the TV debates, look through the campaign summaries on MD/Sport, you'll see I'm right. Oh, also stop reading rumour websites and the English press, they haven't got a clue about Barça.

 

[el tren]

So you decide to make up your own truth w/out backing it up with facts at all? Interesting concept ... esp. from someone who in first place was demanding facts, assuming others were misinterpreting things. That seems more like whats going on with you.

Thus, unless you come up with something substantial, i have no reason to deviate from what i posted above.

 

[Barcafan 2304]

I think Cesc is worth 50mil, to be honest, but the lad wanted to leave. We offered a chunk of money (30mil isn't something you take out of your pocket), and it was really all on Arsenal to not let him leave when he said a thousand times that he wants to go to Barcelona. Shame on Wenger.

50 million....absolute tops!

 

[Cule Angles]

So you decide to make up your own truth w/out backing it up with facts at all? Interesting concept ... esp. from someone who in first place was demanding facts, assuming others were misinterpreting things. That seems more like whats going on with you.

Thus, unless you come up with something substantial, i have no reason to deviate from what i posted above.

My view is based on the information that I have gleaned from reliable sources, yours is based on foreign journalism and rumour websites, those aren't facts. Until you can demonstrate through quotes or a primary source that a promise was made to sign Cesc and that this somehow formed a key part of the election campaign as you've claimed then your argument is redundant because you have no firm evidence to back it up. It's very easy to sit there making wildly inaccurate claims that something did happen and trying to shift the onus onto the better informed to prove it did not, because as you well know disproving things is far more difficult, that's how tinpot conspiracy theories spring up, it's how people believe there's a huge sea creature living in a lake in Scotland etc.

 

[el tren]

Man are you trying to piss me off or are you just too dumb to be true?

 

[Cule Angles]

I understand that being shown up to be delusional or dishonest won't please you but what can I do? You want to establish a lie as the truth, I've asked you to prove it and all you can come up with is four links none of which add any weight to your case whatsoever.