Yeah Evarist Murtra, member 609 of Barçaeye 609!, family businessman, this one is familiar, solvent, proven, from the old Catalan textile tradition, one of the great references of Barcelona fans, authentic promoter of the best Barça in history at the hands of his protégé and friend Pep Guardiola as the club’s coach and, above all, a privileged mind to reflect on the history of Barça, its problems, crises, successes, defeats, persecutions (yes, Murtra also believes that there is ‘sociological madridismo’) and even mythical alignments, he has shown his face (‘We live a fiction’, La Vanguardia, October 20) after being pushed by dozens of friends (apparently, he decided when he heard Eduard Romeu that everything was going wonderfully), is proof that trilerismo has established itself in the governance of his beloved Barça, which, without a doubt, he sees in danger of becoming, one of these years, a sports limited company.
Little presence
In today’s assembly of the Barça delegates, only 10% of them were connected (at the best moment, they were live 644 of the 4,451 summoned), Murtra was harshly criticized, without naming him, for Joan Laporta (“Don’t talk to me, Mr. Llopis, about the people who criticize from home: I live the reality of the club, not fiction”), in one of the most demagogic moments of the culé conclave, which, despite not having a massive presence and live from the compromising members, it did have grotesque moments very, very similar to those in which the members often remember that “there is still no toilet paper in the Camp Nou toilets.”
I honestly don’t understand why all the boards of directors fear member assemblies when, traditionally, they are a true military parade, especially if, like the one today, it is handled in a plan ‘culé politburo’, even with a curious observer in the front row. This was the behavior of Enric Masipwho demanded that the microphone be cut off partner Jaume Llopis (“You will not silence me, Masip, you will not silence me,” the economist and professor told him). The regrettable and censorious performance of Laporta’s friend, advisor and employee reminds me of the phrase that another great culé told me one day: “Jan will not fall because of his management, Jan will fall because of a big mistake by his friend Masip, now you will see”. Could this be it? No way! Surely the ‘cabin’ yesterday showed his satisfaction with Masip’s attempt to censor Llopis.
This modern telematic assembly (“the club’s dream for years,” Laporta said) brought forward all the issues by majority: balance sheet for last season, budget for the current one, agreement with the screen company and other electrical equipment, although, that yes, without saying the amount of the contract for “confidentiality reasons”, Espai Barça, etc. Of course, with a ridiculous majority: 376, 372, 326 votes in favor… out of 4,451 attendees, 146,591 members and, according to Jaume Carrascopresident of the Statutory Economic Commission, the biggest endorser of this board, 450 million followers. That is, everything, everything, everything, was approved with the vote of just over 330 members. I don’t know where their fear comes from.
blindly support
Laporta, as an absolute leader, with easy speech, without looking at any role, from his privileged position on the tribune of the culé ‘politburó’ (with a duration of 9 hours and 46 minutes, endless, yes), launched, of course, a call to unity “because Barça only has us, including you, Mr. Llopis, so let’s not put a spanner in the works, please.” It was the “fer-nos costat” of Eduard Romeuthe economic vice president, who insisted on having the (blind) vote of confidence of the partners “because we know what we do.”
In truth, the partners were not fun, horny, loose, unsheathing their grotesque speeches, but there were mythical phrases from Laporta such as “they are panicking about us, the Barça that scared them is coming back,” “we don’t want a State behind us or millionaires who control us”, “we have saved the club from tragedy and all through the strength of our shield”.
Blissful connection
While all this was happening, I was losing, from time to time (I counted up to 16 interruptions in my connection with the assembly and I sucked up all the ‘scooter’ ads Yamaha Neosof the SetmanaBIO and of Back Market) the connection with Esport3 and, perhaps, it would have been more worthwhile for me to pay the 1,250 euros that TV3 asked from general television stations to have a clean signal from the Auditorium 1899.
Related news
Luckily, none of these cuts, not attributable, of course, to the signal provider (my cell phone is not, by any means, of the latest generation, my children have those), prevented me from seeing and hearing the good and very modern of Juli Guiu say that we should enjoy the “Spotify Cap Roig”. I swear, said Cap Roig, the festival he organizes. Just as Carrasco concluded the list of eight reasons why Barça is better than it was with a resounding “satisfaction!” and as, “Stone’s word!”by Jordi Tardá, to become the original and accomplice of the Barça akelarre.
I repeat: 376 votes out of 4,451 called, out of 146,591 members, out of 450 million followers. Laporta was so afraid of this appointment, absurd fear, that he was even thinking about intensifying the renewal negotiations with Alexia Putellas to announce his renewal at the culé conclave, but he didn’t even need that although, as many fear, Masip was about to finish him off halfway through the journey. You have time left for it.