Last June 11, I told you that, after losing the best soccer player of all time, after doing pure trilerismo with the same Leo Messi, Joan Laporta was in danger of losing the best soccer player in the world, who was no other, who is no other, who Alexia Putellas.
Okay, yes, he hasn’t lost her yet, but everything I predicted is happening. He Barçaits president and its leaders absolutely ignore the women’s team, which, at this moment, is the greatest value, the best capital, the best advertisement, the best flag, the best role model in the world.
Barça, even if you don’t believe it Laportaneither Rafa Yusteneither Eduard Romeuneither Enric Masipneither Alejandro Echevarria (maybe they do think so Xavi Budó and Xavi Puigbut they count for little), has, at the moment, no better representative in the world than its women’s soccer team, two-time Champions League champion and on which the world of football, not just women’s, looks.
Total no
The Deco presentation Yesterday, in the smell of crowds and, above all, in the presence of everyone, everyone, the highest representatives of Barça football, is the living demonstration, the proof, the lament, the sadness, the absurdity, the disenchantment that shows that what Laporta and Mateu Alemany put into motion, the separation of women’s football from culé football, turning the most successful team of the last decade into another section of the club, is maintained, repeated and increased.
The non-presence, the ignoring, that they did to Markel Zubizarretamost praised sports director in Europe, architect of the best team of all time, protagonist of the greatest success of the ‘new Laporta era’as well as that of the fashionable coach in the Old Continent, Jonatan Giraldez, shows that Laporta, his family and friends (with the arrival of Deco, they are all there) only fill their mouths with praise when they come to collect the Women’s European Cup. And period.
At the presentation of the former soccer players’ agent turned sports director (huge paradox), at the event where the friend of Alejandro Echevarria and partner of Jorge Mendes was put at the helm of the Barça ship (possibly, when he is fired, he will go back to doing business with Barça and with whoever), they asked him about women’s football and the possibility of correcting the mistake made by Alemany and tolerated by Laporta .
Deco’s response was so pitiful, so poor, so shabby, so contemptuous, so discouraging (“it’s not my issue, but anything I can contribute and help I will be available”) that it has reinforced the idea held by the two major sports officials. of the section, Zubizarreta and Giráldez, to leave Barça at the end of this season.
Both the sports director and the coach (and Budó knows it, and Puig knows it) fear that the dream is coming to an end. Laporta wants to put all his eggs in the same basket, the Xavi Hernández’s team. Everything else does not interest them, everything else is sections and, as such, they will suffer a very significant decrease in their budget.
Renewals in the air
There is only money for Xavi’s boys and, it seems, not even for Xavi, since his renewal is still up in the air or it will not be for the money or the time that the champion coach and his team of collaborators deserve.
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The scenario that I described to you on June 11 has worsened significantly and is already the worst possible for the Barça coffers, since some of the nine players who must renew in the coming months (Alexia Putellas, Sandra Paños, Gemma Font, Mapi León, Lucy Bronze, Marta Torrejón, Patri Guijarro, Mariona Caldentey and Asisat Oshoala) They have been proclaimed world champions in Australia and, therefore, their requests, their salaries, have skyrocketed. Justly. With Justice.
And that is where those currently responsible for Barça women’s football, the section that was neither from Alemany nor from Deco, are not willing to negotiate given the little interest that the club has in maintaining (and reinforcing, as they have done with the men’s ) to the best team in the world, I repeat, its best advertisement in the world. That is why it will have to be Laporta himself, who during the campaign did not even know the names of his players, who negotiates with the footballers directly, especially with Alexia Putellas.