Jaume Giro, former confidant of Joan Laporta during his campaign to become president of Barça, lit the latter and described the club as a “joke” due to the imbroglio over the non-qualification of Dani Olmo and Pau Victor.
Not a day goes by without new criticism against Joan Laporta, who will face a motion of censure this Tuesday. And they are becoming more and more violent. Jaume Giró, former arm of the president of Barça during his campaign for the 2021 election, delivered a very harsh analysis against the leader and the club on Monday. Guest of the Catalan media DiariARA, he reacted virulently to the non-qualification of Dani Olmo and Pau Victor for the competitions for non-respect of Spanish financial fair play.
“A joke club”
“If instead of being a football club, Barça were a circus, we would be grateful to see that jugglers and tightrope walkers have taken the reins of the management of the company,” he said. he said graphically. “Convinced of their abilities, they apply the same skills to the management of the institution as to the spectacle they dominate. They walk on a tightrope without a net, without a stabilizer bar and, what is worse, without balance.”
“In a once virtuous circle, but which today points towards an abyss with leftovers from which we cannot even make an omelette,” he continues. “The temporary consolation could be even worse: if things continue like this, we will stop talking about jugglers and we will start talking about clowns. We will not be far from being everyone's laughing stock, if not already do.”
Jaume Giró concludes and continues his vitriolic argument with a warning about the bad image that the club gives to Catalonia. “Barça is more than a club, largely because Catalonia is less than a state,” he analyzes. “But if Barça continues, as it has done in recent years, determined to show itself to the world as less than a club, as a club of jokes, the image of Catalonia and of all Catalans will then be terribly damaged.”
A strong man in Laporta's campaign in 2021, Giró ultimately did not join the club's board of directors after his election. Differences between the two men appeared on management issues. Giró would also not have liked not to have been named first vice-president, a position attributed to Rafael Yuste by Laporta.
