Joan Laporta celebrated the confidence of the compromisers to straighten out the economy of the FC Barcelona and receive the green light to obtain income, with a repurchase agreement for six years, which will allow debt to be cleared and to sign this summer in a Assembly that he led at all times with an emergency speech initially sending a veiled message to the clubs already The league and thanks at the end after making it clear that the club will always be owned by the members without letting anyone control or change the idiosyncrasy of the Barca.
At eleven o’clock at night, although he sensed the ‘yes’ by a large majority (84% in both votes), the president breathed: “The decisions we have made solve the present and guarantee the future. We have an enormous power of attraction and with two operations we can enter 600 million. We needed trust as a board to manage the club and be able to face the needs that arise and be more competitive. We can’t guarantee that we will win everything, but we will compete with a motivated coach and a squad with enthusiasm and desire that we now want to complement with more experience”.
Earlier, in the preamble to the vote on the partial sale of TV rights, he sent a direct message to The league. “The sale that we will make is a better operation than the one that they want to put us by land, sea and air for half a century. Our auditors tell us that it is an equity operation and not debt, which is already very high. The combination of this lever with that of BLM clean up the club now”. He later added that “we don’t have money to sign but we are not going to accept attacks that come from 600 km away. If they see us weakened, they want to control us more. The operation you want us to do The league It’s for half a century. We will do it in half and for less years it would help us a lot. Within 25 years we would recover the rights to TV. We know it, but it’s under control.” And he kept shooting. “Those who do not want us to be a reference again will not be able to buy our essences, our history or our way of understanding society, sport and the country.”
Laterwith the votes in favour, relaxed somewhat with Thebes after asking Joan Gaspart to call him: “I will do it. She has changed her attitude and I would ask her to continue like this. In football we all meet and it is clear that Barça can fend for itself”.
Like the day of the meeting Senat with the matter of going up to the floor with an ICU patient, laporta made another simile: “Barça is a single-seater Formula 1 and we found him without gasoline and with a seized engine. We started it but it wasn’t rolling and with these mechanisms we will pass it through the pits before putting it on the starting grid to compete”. He elaborated that “any company would have been dissolved and the partners would have had to contribute money, but we said no to an spill that would be unfair, they do not have to pay for previous mismanagement and we began to work reducing debt, the sports payroll in a relevant way, generating more income with some sponsorship that has gone around the world as Spotify”.
laporta he highlighted the value of “regaining positive equity, repaying debt in a reasonable and sustainable manner and being able to invest in professional teams competing with state clubs owned by millionaires. Now we must begin to give benefits. If we continue to make losses, our competitors and people with power in organizations will continue to obsessively put up many obstacles for us.”
“We are building a team”
Joan Laporta claimed the reconstruction of the team with a young base and left the renewal of Gavi: “We are closing contracts with Araujopresent and future, pedrireference player, we have Nicoa Gavithat we are working on his contract, we have a player from the Racing de Santander who comes with 19 years. We are building a team.” The president also wanted to have a message for the fans, setting as an example what they experienced in Wednesday’s victory against real Madrid in the final playoff of the League of basketball: “We saw that in the Palau, the Catalans led our team to victory. The Palau it was a talisman We have an extraordinary club, alive and different where we make decisions by majority. We enjoy and suffer together. We fall and get up together. It is one of the greatness of Barca”.
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