Joan Laporta reports this Saturday morning (9:30 a.m., in the first call, 10:00 a.m. in the second call) before the Barça delegates. He does it electronically, nothing to do with the classic assemblies where the members who approached, who were not many, could tell the board what they thought to the face. The current board is also clinging to savings in this way, which it estimates at half a million euros, to expose itself to the judgment of the delegates from the coldness of technological distance. Laporta will jump into the ring and open fire with his presidential report. Nothing that he doesn't handle perfectly. If there is one thing that the president has felt in his element as president, it has been when it comes to expressing his ideas. Witty and agile, he usually finds the phrase or expression that makes a fortune. The last one, that of “sociological Madridismo” to explain why the club and himself are under the focus of Judge Aguirre within the Negreira case, in which he was charged last Wednesday.
Laporta will also defend his management in this controversial matter while reviewing the club's current affairs and attacking those who, according to him, are orchestrating a campaign to weaken Barcelona. A current situation that has many fronts, the sporting one, with the last League as proof of tasks well done, the future, with the Espai Barça as a jewel that will show the fans what manna is to come, and the economic one, where the Shadows and doubts remain many.
The board will present the accounting balance for the 2022-20023 season, a year that closed with profits of 304 million. Read without further ado and immediately, it is an extraordinary and historic figure. But of course they are driven numbers, never better said, so they are already trademark levers, that is, sale of assets. Wow, like when you go to the casino and put your properties on the table to be able to continue in the game. The objective is to gain time while waiting for the situation to improve and not have to face so many risks.
The levers that have given air to the club's accounts on this occasion are the sale of 15% of the television rights for 400 million and the operation with Bridgeburg for the sale of 29.5% of the ownership of Barça Vision. “Looking ahead to the next year, we hope that the lever concept disappears,” said the economic vice president, Eduard Romeu, on Wednesday, who will be in charge of presenting the numbers to the delegates.
Without the levers, Barça's accounts would have presented a balance in the red, but thanks to them the income has been 1,259 million euros, while the expenses have amounted to 1,165 million. All this in the midst of postponed stock market listings such as that of Barça Media or agreements with investment funds such as the German Libero, which has not yet paid the agreed 40 million euros. After last season's accounts it will be time for the current campaign's budget. Without the 400 million in income from levers and with the move to Montjuïc, which implies that the club stops earning up to 78 million, Barça has budgeted 859 million in income (counting the 25 that the club would pocket for reaching the quarterfinals). Champions League final). This budget foresees pre-tax profits of 11 million. Achieving this without selling more assets would be quite an achievement.
Although without a doubt one of the most anticipated moments by the delegates will be the section that refers to the current state of the Espai Barça works and their development in the near future. It will be the moment in which the club shows a video that it already previewed to a small group of delegates on Tuesday. In it you can see how the Camp Nou will be built step by step.
Virtual images of how the new Barça stadium will progress in detail until it is completed in June 2026 with the entire roof already covering all of the stands.
Barça is on a roller coaster and not only because of the agreement it announced this Friday with Port Aventura. But anything other than Laporta carrying out the assembly this Saturday would be a monumental surprise.
