2023-10-15 07:01:15
There are some absolute truths of those that mark any speech from someone who claims to understand what this Barça thing is about. Perhaps the most widespread is that the Barça club, if it had been a normal company and not one of the most precious and valued sports entities in the world, would have gone into liquidation at the end of Josep Maria Bartomeu’s mandate. When, in reality, and beyond the fact that even more loans had to be requested from Goldman Sachs to pay the payroll, We should have been talking then more about the moral misery – partly now judicialized – than about the embarrassing economic hole left as a legacy to Joan Laporta. With assets to sell, footballers to retire and assets of all kinds with which to market, there could be no bankruptcy, no matter how attractive the propaganda was.
But until when?
In a Barcelona in which Joan Laporta acts as pantocrator, and where the most valued advisors are those who applaud him, not those who correct him, it is the audit reports that allow one to get closer to something like the reality of the club, no matter how much it is conditioned by all kinds of accounting stratagems. In the Grant Thornton audit signed by Carlos Capellá Bruguera on September 25 – and later signed by Joan Laporta, Eduard Romeu – economic vice president –, Ferran Olivé – treasurer – and Josep Cubells – secretary of the board –, emphasis is placed on in that if Barça has generated a result of 303 million euros, it has something to do with the fact that the profits from “non-recurring operations” have reached 800 million. And at least in this corner we will not talk about “levers”, a sweetened term embedded in our meninges that allows everything to go down the trachea better. Here we will refer to the sale of assets and rights that will stop being collected when the club has to be fully involved in the payment of the Spotify Camp Nou credit. A place that the club’s current leaders see as a huge vessel from which gold will begin to flow from 2026.
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OK. Eduard Romeu has tried to explain in recent days in the forums where he has been asked that they have managed to put a plug in that Barça bathtub full of piranhas. But now It remains to be seen how much of the club has already gone down the drain. before the enjoyment of all those banks and funds that, in addition to dividing the cake to pieces, will seek to get the most out of their investment.
The member, while they give him a link to follow an assembly of delegates in which he is no longer welcome – “we must save,” they say in the offices -, while they also ask him to praise misery, will follow his own. Convincing that the club is somewhat better financially – which it is – but without realizing that it is less and less theirs.
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