Exactly one year ago today Joan Laporta swept the elections. Now, the leader pilots, almost alone, the reconstruction of Barça, the “ruined” club that found itself on March 7, 2021, shaken by “the poisoned inheritance”, as he himself confessed, received from Joseph Maria Bartomeu.
A Laportian year in its most complete definition, lived to the limit where he will go down in history, whether he likes it or not, like the president with whom Messi left Barça unable to find solutions for him to stay, forced to undertake the ‘Barça post Leo’ .
Three coaches (Koeman, Sergi and Xavi), two resignations (Giró and Reverter) and a title (Copa del Rey), the balance of his first year
A leader who has had three coaches on the Camp Nou bench (koemanwho he never loved, Sergiointerim solution, and Xaviwhom he did not want, but ended up tearing him from Qatar and from the electoral poster of Victor Fontthe candidate he swept at the polls).
Laporta has lived to the limit, with money obtained at dawn (thus he collected the guarantee of 124.6 million euros, necessary to start his second term) staging strange friendships with Florentino Perezthe president of Madrid, product of necessity, both hoisting the flag of the European Super League.
Money crisis, sports crisis
In one year, money crisis and a gigantic debt of 1,350 million euros. There was not a euro in the box, Laporta forced to sign two loans, one bridge of 80 million and another of 595 million to guarantee the survival of the club. No, it was not an exaggeration. Barça did not have the economic capacity not even for day to day. Economic crisis and sports crisis.
A Copa del Rey in a year, the work of Koeman, whom he did not know how to kick out in the summer, the same one he badly fired on a plane when the team was coming back to Barcelona after the defeat in Vallecas that certified the end of his stormy stage at the Camp Nou, causing more instability until laporta chose the path of Xavi. The only route that remained within his reach last November.
A title in football, two transcendental resignations (James Giro should be its economic vice president and he left even before the legislature began and Ferran Reverterthe CEO who barely lasted eight months in the office), revolution without end in the sections (only Saras Jasikevicius remains as a survivor was Bartomeu), audits and forensic to discover the hidden side of the chaotic management of the former president and the start-up of the Barca Space, waiting to formalize the project, valued at 1,500 million euros.
On the path of reconstruction
And since January, freed from the pressure of the guarantors, laporta exerts laporta in its purest expression. In the good, the capacity for rebellion to overcome one of the most delicate situations in the club’s history, and in the bad. But it brings together all the power in a Barça that is already on the road to reconstruction.
After months of hardship, the president now sees how Barça has settled in the Champions zone after having chained four consecutive victories (three in the League) taking advantage of the immediate impact of a successful winter market, with the arrival of Ferran, Aubameyang, Adama and Alves.
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“This is the road to success!” he tweeted. laporta after the victory over Athletic along with a photo that illustrates his good vibes with Xavi. An image that sums up the optimism that the leader has injected, coinciding with the first anniversary of his second term, supported by a gang of talented young people (Pedri, Nico, Gavi…) whom he hopes to endow this summer with the jewel Haland to definitively activate another ‘virtuous circle’.