I don’t know about you, but a server doesn’t remember a statement by a Barça president as forceful with his wardrobe as the ones made by President Laporta on Tuesday. In an interview granted to ‘L’esportiu’ Laporta said that “I am disappointed with the team’s attitude. I have suffered as much or more than Xavi due to that lack of character. I don’t understand it and it has been a great disappointment. This team has not had at no time a leadership and I have been disappointed and pissed off”.
Excuse me, but that the president gets to speak in public of “lack of character”, “deception” and “lack of leadership” is something too categorical as to think that it is just a heater. If we add to this that the club admits that it is already studying another salary reduction for its squad, it is confirmed that Laporta’s words are no coincidence.
If to this cocktail we also add the harsh words about Gavi and his representative, and the words of Mateu Alemany giving up on DembéléWe already have all the ingredients on the table. In the first place, it is clear that the president has entered a second logical and understandable phase: the blame for all the ills is no longer just the previous meeting, but the players are beginning to have it as well. That is, he goes on the offensive and begins to change focus.
Secondly, it is worth seriously wondering if Laporta’s words inevitably start a war with the hard core of the locker room, once he has verified that his contribution is clearly negative.
With Gavi he seems to have made a miscalculation and it was probably unfair (his representative denied yesterday that they had already received the renewal offer as Laporta suggested), but what is relevant in his statements is that they were undoubtedly addressed to veteran footballers, who They continue to live very well and under an incomprehensible protection.
When the president talks about a lack of leadership, he undoubtedly points to Piqué, Busquets and Alba, to whom he is saying that although they have fulfilled their individual goals they have been incapable of putting up with the group in bad times. What Laporta wants to tell us is that if the team collapsed resoundingly after the Bernabeu it was because of the inability of the sacred cows to lead the team.
The president, who has a fine nose to guess where the fans are turning, knows that the Barça member is beginning to be fed up with the locker room aristocracy, which charges astronomical amounts, and that he sold him that without Messi everything would improve when the only reality is that the team has sunk when the decisive moment of the season has arrived. Does a Laporta-wardrobe war start? Surely it is necessary and unavoidable, but it would have important consequences.