Ex-Barcelona presidential candidate criticises Laporta’s management and calls for brand spanking new mannequin

Ex-Barcelona presidential candidate criticises Laporta’s management and calls for brand spanking new mannequin

Former FC Barcelona presidential candidate Victor Font has as soon as once more voiced his issues concerning the membership’s administration, urging a whole restructuring to align with fashionable soccer’s calls for. 

Talking at an occasion titled El Barça que somiem (The Barça We Dream Of), Font was crucial of the present board below Joan Laporta, notably relating to the membership’s path and dealing with of its legacy.

Font emphasised the necessity to honour and combine legendary figures reminiscent of Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, Carles Puyol, and Pep Guardiola again into the membership. 

Asking for higher relationship

He pressured that Barcelona shouldn’t be managed by a choose few however ought to stay a membership for all its followers. 

Based on him, nearly all of supporters don’t wish to see their relationship with Messi severed. 

As a substitute, the Argentine ought to return to play an important position in making Barcelona stronger, reasonably than being left disconnected from the membership’s future.

Victor Font has as soon as in opposition to criticised Joan Laporta. (Picture by LLUIS GENE/AFP through Getty Pictures)

“Nearly all of the membership’s social mass doesn’t need relations with the perfect participant within the membership’s historical past to be damaged. Messi should return to the membership and play a job that makes Barça greater. 

“Busquets, Puyol, Guardiola should be capable to return to the membership. As a result of the membership belongs to all of the Cules, and it’s not the membership of these in cost and their family and friends,” he started saying.

Bettering the economic system

Past sporting issues, Font additionally raised severe issues about Barcelona’s monetary state. 

With a debt of €1.3 billion, he warned that if drastic modifications aren’t made, the membership dangers jeopardising the way forward for its present era of gamers. 

“If issues aren’t finished proper, we are able to put this distinctive era of gamers in danger. We have now a debt of 1.3 billion that must be reversed. We current an alternative choice to the way in which the membership has been managed for the final 48 years.”

Whereas Font doesn’t consider “Laporta desires to vary the possession mannequin of the membership”, he warned that “his malpractice might find yourself placing the mannequin in danger, as a result of if you happen to don’t deal with your well being, you find yourself getting sick.” 

With Barcelona’s future at a crucial juncture, Font’s remarks function one more name for a re-evaluation of the membership’s construction. 

Whether or not his imaginative and prescient good points traction or not, his criticism highlights rising issues concerning the membership’s monetary and institutional stability below the present management.

Supply: Mundo Deportivo