How to reconcile the speech of an inherited club in a dilapidated situation with the acquisition of two players for more than 100 million euros in a week? Put a Joan Laporta in his life.
At this point in the president's second term, the chosen tactic no longer admits of interpretation. Laporta has decided to bet very heavily and take proportionally high risks if the move does not work out for him. It is the story of guarantees delivered at the last minute as a systematized pattern of action.
The idea is to build a winning team based on big signings by spending huge amounts of money that you don't have but rather nibble away from supposed future income. The debt is still there, growing. Success will come if soccer resurfaces because that will trigger profits and guarantee the payment of multimillion-dollar loans to Goldman Sachs, the investor who is being seen as the owner.
That's the theory. Each one sees the matter according to the trench they occupy. Lewandowski, for example. Trench A: "He is the best center forward in current football, the signing that returns Barça to the center of European football, he will score Messi's goals." Trench Z: “Very expensive. In six months he was out for free. It is as if Busquets (34 years old, the same as the Pole), whom we want to retire, was offered a four-year contract”. Between both fronts thousands of furrowed eyebrows of people in the open.
"Do I let myself be carried away by the euphoric effect of the summer transfers or do I do the rigorous thing and ask myself inwardly why Laporta told me in the electoral campaign that in case of charging commissions he would explain them all to me?" Let's review: Spotify (Darren Dein, old friend), Raphinha (Deco, old friend) and Lewandowski (Pini Zahavi, old friend). No data has been provided for any of them. They won't be easy.
Winning will make him forget everything. Lose, well we'll see. The peculiarity, as always (ask Bartomeu), is that the money that moves theoretically belongs to the partners, living beings who are entertained in public and ignored in practice, as if they were orange fish in a fishbowl. Naive decoration.
If Laporta comes out of this (the next challenge will be to register players with runaway fair play and controlled above by Tebas, who would not be an ally) he will be considered a mythological being capable of always landing on his feet no matter what happens, no matter how serious and apocalyptic that everything seems. The problem is that, if he does not achieve it, that president who was compared to Kennedy by his followers will be equated with Jesús Gil by his detractors, although those of us out in the open will continue to think that, not one thing, nor another.
