I have his name, he has even authorized me to use it, but for now, for protection, I will not write it down. He deserves it for having told me such a tremendous anecdote, which, now, becomes vital, well, nothing is vital in this chaotic Barça of the last second of everything.
They were days in which it was felt that Joan Laporta could win the elections and the man, who had been loitering at many events and was amused by that funny noise, approached Laporta at an electoral event and told him, in a corner of the room, something that really worried him .
“Sorry, Jan, I don’t know anything about football, but are you already aware that, on Monday, if you win, you must have a guarantee of 124.6 million euros& rdquor ;, the collaborator calmly snapped, or almost. “Indeed, you have no idea about football,” Laporta commented amusingly, “and you don’t know either what is barca and what does it mean to be president of Barça. That you know that if I win the elections, the next day I will have a queue of banks to lend me the guarantee”.
Tail, really?
Laporta and his inseparable Rafael Yuste they emerged victors and thus posed in the photograph of March 8, 2021. But, yes, since they didn’t have a penny, sorry, a euro, or they only had a handful, nine days later, despite the line of bankers who broke their faces to guarantee them, they had to beg tens of millions from Jaume Roures and Jose Elias in order to become president. Of course, also late in the morning.
Two and a half years have passed and Laporta, Yuste, Romeu and company have presented a guarantee, which they hope to raise with German money in a few days, to close the transfer market as they wanted, sorry, as they wanted jorge mendes and decoration, inseparable. Well, also inseparable from Laporta. I am counting these details because does anyone explain, intuit, suspect, guess, conjecture what has happened during the last 29 months so that those who did not have a euro to guarantee go, now, with so much money or property?
The problem is that we return to that very sensible, very sensible explanation of the friend Juan Cruz when he affirms that Barça “always lacks the second paragraph, the one with the explanation& rdquor ;. And not only to Barça. To Joan Laporta, especially. or to Xavi HernandezHopefully he is not as trilero as his bosses, who have not yet renewed him, and today he explains (difficult, yes) the truth about the toads that, due to the tremendous influence of Laporta, Mendes and Deco, has had to be swallow.
Among them, joao felix, because his ‘Estiarte’ had advertised and leaked to the press for months that they did not want to see him even in painting. Like Neymar Jr. Well, let them know, today, in the press conference prior to the match against Osasuna, Xavi will say that the Portuguese “will do very well for us”, because they have left dembele, Ansu Fati and abdeWith your permission, of course. More trilerism.
There is no (serious) noise around all the trilerism that moves the people who run Barça, led by laportahis brother-in-law echevarriastill without charge or presented, And you, romeuThe treasurer ‘man for everything’ Olivé, masip, Giorgadze…all, I suppose, tremendously educated in a multitude of businesses, signing agreements and 500-page contracts and, of course, with the financial, economic and legal capacity and knowledge not to need, as the president struts, a CEO of prestige nor any Director General.
The list of fear
I, when I see the list of all kinds of companies, banks and others that have appeared in levers and various operations, I start to tremble. But I am nobody, nor do I know numbers. Zero, but read, read: Sixth Street Partner, Locksley, JP Morgan, Texas Pacific Group, Spotify, Orpheus Media, Socios.com, GDA Luma Fund, Goldman Sachs, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial, Intermoney, Limak Construction, Metlife, Barings, Apollo, New York Life, Kroll Bonds , Morningstar Sustainalytics, Fichs, Key Capital Partners, Legends, Innovative Partnerships Group, Celebraimg 10 Years, Populous, BREEAM ES, Riskemedi Group, JLL, Pérez-Lorca, DLA Piper, IPG360 and one more that seems, I repeat, seems, the KKK (Ku Klux Klan), but that is about KKRthat is, Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co.
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I talk to someone who does know about these things. “Here there are some other banks, but most of the companies are venture capital investment funds. These funds invest in an infinite number of different sectors, hoping for a return of money with high interest rates in order to pay good returns to their investors. They usually invest in affected sectors, ‘bargain price’ companies and, in this way, if those who have received the loan cannot repay the money within the expected period, they execute the guarantees that, normally, are always higher than the money lent and are they stay with the company at low cost. His motto is always the same: multiply your investment by two in less than four years.”
I reread the list, and seriously, it’s scary. But, well, the ‘soci’ already agrees (or not) if he thrashes tomorrow at El Sadar. Say.