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Laporta, president of the Barça

HARD HAND OF THE PRESIDENT

Laporta's extreme measures... Improvisation or revolution?

Published:11/07/2021 - 01:17h

Updated:11/07/2021 - 04:46h

Laporta Has not lived the best three months and half like president of the Barça. They have been many the 'loads' that has inherited, forcing it to take extreme and extraordinary measures

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In a so complicated situation, the FC Barcelona is forced to take extreme measuress that, in other conditions, surely would not take . At the head of the decisions and actions is Joan Laporta, president culé from three months ago and half, accompanied by Mateu Alemany, treating to achieve a solution in the short term so that the Barça achieve to fulfil with the aims of face to the beginning of the season 2021-2022: the reduction of the mass salarial, renewal of Leo Messi, the sales, cessions, discounts...

It has been a marked period by the uncertainty. They are many the open fronts that has the club (inheritance for the president) and few the solutions that can find , because the economic subject, mainly, is delicate and affects to all the sectors of the club, forcing to take drastic decisions, or the beginning of them. The first has been the rescission of unilateral way of the agreement of Matheus Fernandes, a played that to the culés could have him gone out expensive by the option of demand of the footballer.

From this measure with the Brazilian, is very evident that will come other decisions that will be controversial but, of some way, necessary. Laporta (As 'image' Barcelona) is forced tor esolver too many subjects and, if they do not take concrete actions, the Barça will be submerged in even more problems, doing reference to the registration of players for the season 2021-2022, something that the club can not do until it achieve to reduce his mass salarial to 50% to fulfil with the 'fair play' financial.

That is the point that defines everything for the culés... And where goes in the uncertainty with Laporta, Alemany and company. It is very true that the Barça is forced to do all the possible for 'undo' of the players that do not go in in the approach of Ronald Koeman, but in some point notices that there has been too space for the improvisation and that there are some movements that can be become discussed, no because they are wrong, but because probably they arrived in the mistaken moment.

It is the case, in specific, of the signings. From it does long, in spite of not having official figures or not having audits, knew that the economic situation of the culés was more than grave. In his candidature, in fact, Laporta recognised in an opportunity that the club went to need, at least, two years for sanear his economy. This means that the culés were not in conditions to go out to the market, at least until freeing -deeply- his changing room. In the Barça did the things the other way around: first they arrived the signings and now is when they begin to go out players.

Between all this, in three months and means did not achieve convince to Messi to continue in the club. The Argentinian wants to remain (is not a secret) but also has to take care the backs and the fiscal subject, with the payments differed, played a key paper in the negotiation. Laporta Did not achieve a solution before 30 June and now fichar to Leo is one hundred more complicated times, because the Barça has to apply the rule of the 4x1: you free, for example, 40 millions and use 10 to inscribe to a player. Considering that Messi would earn, minimum, 50 'kilos', the culés would have to free 200 millions...

Of this uncertainty, crisis (that it is necessary to add him the registrations of the others five signings) is that they are born the extraordinary measures, the hard hand of Laporta or the decisones extreme to free the mass salarial and can that the club do not achieve to do everything in the time that remains so that it close the market of signings. In any case, remains to expect which direction will take the 'operation gone out' and if this will be sufficient, in addition to the extra income (by sponsors) that had promised in the campaign.

The next measures of the Barça

The true is that, as they are the things, the club is forced to give him gone out to more players of the expected, by what the decisions will be increasingly hard and concrete. In the immediate horizon are the traspasos of players like Samuel Umtiti, Philippe Coutinho or Miralem Pjanic those who in addition to having wages very high (are of the best paid of the staff) do not have prominence neither importance any in the approach of Ronald Koeman for the season 2021-22.

On the other hand they are the discounts salariales. It is necessary to expect to see if, as it happened with Bartomeu in the beginning of the pandemia of the coronavirus, the Barça applies a discount salarial for all the players or the club will initiate negotiations individuales, beginning with the 'heavy weights' to be able to reduce, of a form or another, the mass salarial. Already Gerard Hammered gathered with the culés and accessed. Busquets, Alba and Sergi Roberto are the following.

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