The image of Joan Laporta has remained terribly 'touched' after the course of Leo Messi of the FC Barcelona. The president has allowed to go out to the best player of the history of the club and perhaps of the history of the football without not even present him a contraoferta. The club threw for backwards his offer to the '10' to last hour and the rosarino went leaving clear that anybody in the entity wanted to retain him after this last "no".
All this is especially painful for 'Jan', since the letter of Messi was one of the main reasons that did him win the elections. During all his precandidatura and his candidature, the now president left clear to the barcelonismo that he was the only able to convince to the attacker to renew and remain. His good relation with him and his condition of ex mandator did him have advantage with him, on the contrary that occurred with Víctor Font and Toni Freixa.
Once it arrived to the control, Laporta did not leave to command messages of optimism regarding the future of Leo. Although it never arrived to ensure at all, yes left to fall during long that was near or that there was very good feelings. However, at the end the economic situation of the club forced him to renounce to the six times Balloon of Gold. A decision complicated that has done that it have interested that they no longer trust he, since this 'signing' was one of his electoral promises.
However, it is not the first time that 'Jan' promise' something during the elections and afterwards does not fulfil. The maximum mandator culé already did it in 2003 when it presented to the comicios for the first time. In this moment ensured to have an agreement for fichar to David Beckham, that at the end finish going to the Real Madrid. This promise was what marked the difference and did that the lawyer and employer won to Lluís Bassat in this occasion.
The own Bassat explained it in December to leave in evidence to Laporta. "I called to the responsible of the agency of advertising that carries the account of the Manchester United, that is of the group Ogilvyno. It said me 'no, on the contrary, already it is fichado by the Madrid'. I asked him then how it could be, then , that the web of the United announced that Beckham fichaba by the Barça. It answered me: 'Already you will see like this announcement only goes out a day, only today. From morning no longer will say at all because it is the agreement that have done. Already you will see that if Laporta wins, the Barça fichará a player that will have like mánager to the son of Ferguson", explained, referring to Rustu, goalkeeper that ficharon the Barcelona this year.
Laporta Also mintió with the avalistas
Neither it said the truth 'Jan' in these elections when it promised that anybody would interfere in the decisions of his FC Barcelona and that would not put people of out. At the end, the president had to yield in front of Jaume Roures, partner founder of Mediapro, and in front of José Elías, of Audax Renewable. Both were avalistas and allowed that the Catalan finish being president of the Barça, since without them would not have attained the guarantee and would have to have gone back to celebrate the elections.