“Helping the club is not shutting up. And out of respect for the 17,000 people who voted for us, I think we should give our opinion”. Word of Víctor Font, ex-candidate in the last elections in which he came second. The leader of 'Sí al Futur' confessed that during this time he has not been able to meet with President Joan Laporta and claimed in an act in Esplugues de Llobregat his intention to "contribute and help" and criticized that Barcelona fans are not capable of "creating a common front. Font spoke in a discussion with journalists Joan Josep Pallàs (Head of Sports at La Vanguardia), Sonia Gelmà (Catalunya Radio), Ramón Besa (El País) and Joan Vehils (Sport), reviewing the situation of the club in various blocks.
In the first place, he declared that he felt "sad and disappointed" by the financial situation of the club, although "happy to see how our commitment to Xavi has worked". Regarding the Espai Barça, Font criticized the decision to stay at Montjuïc for at least a year and a half because he considers that it was not necessary. "It only is if the priority is to build faster and cheaper." He also regretted that the club has not been able to attract Leo Messi again and pointed out that "if there were elections tomorrow, Laporta's economic inheritance would be worse than Bartomeu's".
"Bringing Messi back to the stadium just by calling his name was impossible. That he went to Miami is proof that the agreement could be worked on over time and that it was creative, with strategic business partners. An agreement, by the way, thought out by a former Barça worker", he said, referring to Xavier Asensi. "Now, the frustration is among many people. Among them Xavi, with whom I had lunch three weeks ago and I was convinced that he would come. I was very excited. And Messi too because he he took the first step to come calling the coach," Font confessed. "To bring Messi or to renew him we didn't have to wait for CVC or Sixth Street, which by the way is the same thing. Messi and for 2 percent of what has happened in these two years. And by the way, I know that relations are still not entirely good. Looking to the future, it is essential to resolve it so that I can return in a different way", warning.
"They also deceive us with the agreement to finance the Espai Barça with the Palau Blaugrana and now we see that it is not exactly like that. Or when it is said that Barça has left the UCI. If there were elections now, the economic inheritance would be worse now than after Bartomeu. We have more debt and more spending and less equity than two years ago. And we will accumulate 1,000 million euros of ordinary losses in three years".
"There is no transparency about agreements that are strategic for the club. The case of Spotify, for example, or the process of adjudication of the works of the Camp Nou. Limak leaves, everything is surprises and the only answers that there are is that they do it faster and cheaper. I don't think those are the best criteria when we're talking about the most important work in the club's history. And the transfer commissions? No transparency, when the president promised that there would be. The president said that Compared to the other trench, he would transparently explain who was charging what. And it has not been done. Being transparent is the best thing to do because otherwise you sow doubt," he reflected.
Asked about his method for signing, Font indicated that "it's a shame not to have done your homework to be able to sign someone like Bernardo Silva, who is a player who has said that he's not comfortable in Manchester with his family. If you don't do your homework, It's not possible. And with Gündogan I'm afraid the same thing won't happen. Haaland also wanted to come. And we activated the levers to activate Lewandowski who is a crack, yes. But he is 34 years old and he has had a long contract. With homework done and with creativity we could have done other things," he said.
Font went to Istanbul to witness the victory of City, who won their first Champions League by catching the "In Manchester I was talking with Txiki Begiristain, Pep Guardiola, Ferran Soriano who are very culé people. It is not understood that they are there. I have no doubt that if we are capable of creating the right conditions like what he has found in Manchester, I am convinced that Guardiola will return with a relevant position in the sports structure with leadership positions. Barça should not be a presidential club. There should not be the figure of a president who is Superman. It must be three-dimensional."
"Barça cannot be a club with a super president with a cape. You have to govern with three legs, a project built and fleeing from me against me. A sports branch with a prominent figure like Pep Guardiola, who is the best coach in history , in front. A business branch with the best possible CEO and an institutional branch."
"I am convinced that the Barça board of directors does not want to do things wrong and wants the club to continue to belong to the members, but we must act in this regard. There are assets that are no longer ours." In this sense, he was asked about a possible motion of censure. "I think that the motion of censure should be the last tool. I hope that it is not necessary to act in this case. But at the moment we are not going in the right direction," he said.
"We are all convinced that Barcelona has not won thanks to the referees. But paying the vice president is an irregularity and you have to understand the reasons. And nobody has explained anything. I hope that justice does it", he sentenced.
"I'll go to Montjuïc. I live in Granollers and I'll go up on foot or however I can," he joked.
