more than 2,500 years ago, Confuciusa great Chinese thinker from a ruined family, commented that “when the sage points to the Moon; the fool looks at the finger & rdquor;. Teaching: we forget what is important to focus on nonsense. More: there are people who stay on the superficial, losing the essence of things. What’s more? Sometimes it happens that we simply don’t want to see the problem that they are showing us (the Moon) and we cling to the banal (the finger), looking for any excuse to delay the problem or, at least, avoid the problem. debate, conversation, about the problem.
In the last 24 hours, curiously, the most triumphant sporting moment for Barça, when it is leading all the Leagues of all the professional sports in which it competes, both its president, Joan Laportaas his most important coach, Xavi Hernandezthey have decided, before the general astonishment but the approval, perhaps, without a doubt, of the ‘soci’, of the social mass culé, to look at the finger instead of the Moon.
The president speaking of orchestrated campaigns, persecution, victimhood, the ability of the centralist power to corner and put an end to ‘more than a club’, harassment and demolition and, above all, “they accuse us for what we are and what we represent”, that of the authentic problem: how is it possible that the club that claims to defend the values of fair play, the manor, “which is a world reference & rdquor;, does not consider that its behavior in the ‘Negreira case’, at the very least, has not been ethical. Laporta has not even apologized because someone who is called, which is (does it really still is?), ‘more than a club’, has had, I insist, for almost 20 years, unfortunate, sad and little behavior. ethical.
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I will not say (or yes, what the heck!) that Laporta’s arguments to defend himself, to defend Barça, to get rid of the reputational crisis that the club is experiencing and that, without a doubt, will increase over the next weeks because the Barça president’s speech has been much more incendiary than clarifying, they are so similar (they are, yes) to those used by Xavi to justify the third draw in a row, 270 minutes without scoring a goal and the loss of credibility in the game blaugrana: the cobblestone was unfortunate, the grass was dry, it had been allowed to grow up to the authorized limit and, on top of that, it was sunny and we are not used to playing in the sun.
Seriously, what part of the million dollar question (sorry for the 8.5 million euros that the joke ended up costing Barça) did not understand, did not want to, could not, Laporta answer about the ‘Negreira case’? Why did you pay the second of the arbitrators? The thesis, repeated a thousand times but not for that reason true (or credible) that Negreira had no influence on the referees fell by his own weight when he stopped paying him, just the day after he left the vice-presidency of the referees. That question, by the way, was not asked by any of the 70 journalists present in the room. It is not critical, please, it is to verify that nobody asked him that, if he did not influence, why did you stop paying him the day after he went to his house?
Laporta, above all, has made populism, victimhood and has dedicated himself to satisfying the ‘soci’
Laporta has made a populist, culé, political, very political speech, trying to show that Barça has not done anything illegal (this remains to be demonstrated, of course), it has not bought matches, competition, or any referee (the fans could complain about that partners: we have spent 8.5 million euros and, on top of that, we have not bought a single party) and, of course, the president, who has once again put his chest and that of all his managers ahead to stop the bullets, has worked , spoken and answered only with a very clear objective: to please the ‘soci’, who is the only one who could question everything that happened, not only in the Notice Mailbox on the web, but with the odd banner or whistles at the Camp Nou , the theater of dreams of Laportism.
Of course, knowing that UEFA, FIFA, the highest international organizations that protect (or should protect) football, are carefully looking at the ‘Negreira case’ because they do believe that the behavior of Barça, of all Barça, It has been unethical and harmful to the image of football (in general), it has tried to put its presidents, Aleksander Ceferin and Gianni Infantino, in their pockets, praising that those bosses wait (or so it seems, although it is not very clear that this is the case). ) the final, definitive judgment, the decision of the Spanish justice, to make a decision and, therefore, as a counterpart, it has sought two local enemies to mark, even more, the role that each boss has played in the echo more than in the essence of the ‘Negreira case’, a case, by the way, that Laporta (what was I thinking) came to call the ‘Texeira case’, the other Culé mess, that of Neymar.
And to embrace Ceferin and Infantino (and to continue provoking the adhesion of the ‘soci’, who is totally dedicated to the cause of “they persecute us, hate us, fear us, want to sink us and take away our property from Barça& rdquor;), Laporta has destroyed, once again, Javier Tebas, president of the football association, where on Wednesday, Laporta himself will explain himself, live and direct, and has added (there he has been very skilful, although we will see what consequences the vomited on the immaculate and untouchable shield of Real Madrid, known for the endless power, in every way, of Florentino Pérez) with some tremendously forceful and contemptuous words assuring that if someone cannot open their mouths it is the white club that, for 70 years , has appointed the highest representatives of Spanish arbitration.
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Again looking at the finger, again forgetting about the Moon. Laporta did not say that Real Madrid has dominated arbitration for 70 years when Florentino told him not to sign with CVC, when Florentino put him in line for the Super League to face UEFA, when Florentino offered him the help of his financial advisors to negotiate the levers, when they made common cause against Thebes…. He has spoken against Florentino when the ‘soci’ has asked and demanded that, to defend himself against an unjustifiable contract with the number two in arbitration, he should remember that Madrid had done that “all our lives, we all know it& rdquor;…..but without leaving a trace.
I am truly afraid that, as in the Shakira-Piqué dispute, also in this Laporta-Florentino affair the two presidents have everything, everything, agreed. “It’s been discussed& rdquor ;, the culé president escaped. “It’s the economy, stupid & rdquor ;, which Bill Clinton said, in 1992, to George HW Bush (father), who was looking at the finger when Clinton spoke to him about the Moon.