The newspaper archive mercilessly pursues Joan Laporta. Phrases like “losing will have consequences”, “we are not in the 1:1 rule because we don’t want to” or all the messages of hope and confidence regarding the registration of Dani Olmo or Pau Víctor have exploded in his face on the first day of the year. The president Laporta, accustomed to pulling rabbits out of his hat at the last moment to solve the club’s worst moments in extremis, seems that this time he has gone off the curve. He persists in his efforts, but on this occasion, with Olmo and Víctor officially unregistered from LaLiga, It seems difficult that the attempt to involve the Spanish Federation in the case will turn out well. There is saber rattling in an environment in which Laporta is increasingly alone.
The institutional chaos that results from the failure to register Olmo and Pau Víctor is difficult to control. It is difficult to defend the management of a president who has known since the summer that this could happen and who, like a fawn in the middle of the road, has seen how the truck was approaching at full speed. and has been unable to avoid it.
Laporta has undertaken the management of a situation as complex on an economic and institutional level as this one. without general director of the club after the departure of Ferran Reverter eight months after his appointment and who has not been replaced or economic vice president after the resignation of Eduard Romeu. Laporta, in his desire to run the club as a “family business” In his own words, he has wanted to be everywhere and for the first time it seems that his undeniable ability to solve problems will not be enough.
Until now he had managed to overcome finish photo issues as tricky as the endorsement to be able to formalize his presidency (solved at three in the morning in a notary office in Barcelona thanks to the appearance of Jaume Roures and José Elías), the crisis of the commissions paid to the ISL company for organizing the Barcelona tour, the constant fuss from Barça Studios with their respective name changes and their supposed IPO valued at 1,000 million, the opacity of the contracts with Aramark, Nike and Spotify and the succession of missed deadlines on the return date to the Spotify Camp Nou. He even overcame the auditor’s reprimand when he presented the accounts for the last financial year. So far, the partner has bought everything, but With Olmo he has caught his fingers in an operation that, no matter how it ends, leaves the reputation of the club and the image of its president very damaged.
Laporta believes that the situation is reducible and the entity assures that next Friday, January 3, they will give the explanations. At the moment, they have requested that the Spanish Football Federation intervene to give a new license to both footballers while LaLiga has deleted them from its website. A clear attempt to separate both entities that have been experiencing a new era since Rafael Louzán’s rise to the presidency that is staged with the appointment of Javier Tebas as vice president of the RFEF.
Meanwhile, the opposition is preparing to come to the fore and in certain areas there is already beginning to be talk of a motion of censure and former presidential candidates like Víctor Font are preparing press conferences to make known their point of view in the face of a failure, which if confirmed, will mark a before and after in the management of a Laporta who will need a lot of magic to return to the correct layout.
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