Florentino does not want to see Laporta (chapter II)

2023-10-26 07:00:45

Furthermore, the subsequent silence of the board of John Laporta It has angered the white president even more. Prefer, therefore, Florentino stay at home, while sending, yes, a delegation from the white club through the figure of Eduardo Fernández de Blas. new vice president.

Florentino does not want to visit the rental house where Laporta lives, the author of the phrase “sociological Madridism” that has dynamited relationships by merging with criticism of Vínicius, the totem of the fight against racism that Florentino exhibits and proclaims.

Partners in intimacy

Madrid and Barça weave, over the years, a curious relationship, which becomes poisoned. At least, in public. Although, in reality, they are Florentino and Laporta who understand each other better than it seems in the offices, but not outside.

In private they understand each other, more than it appears publicly when they show divergent positions. It is the second sit-in that the Barça president has received from his Madrid colleague in the last seven months. The door yes he goes to the shiny Bernabéu; FlorentinoOn the other hand, he did not set foot in the old and already demolished Camp Nou. Nor will he be in Montjuïc this Saturday.

When this is not the case, Negreira is the tweet of Mikel Camps, a manager whose quick finger in activating his messages on Twitter has opened a new crisis between Barça and Madrid. Crisis that is recurring between the two most powerful institutions of the Spanish League, industrial and media engines involved in several common causes.

Allies in the European Super League

To begin with, they are partners in the Super League project that was to break the structures of European football. Faithful partners because they resist everything, including the premature abandonment of the English giants (Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham) and they resist together, despite Agnelli’s Juventus, the only ally they had left.

Both clubs share the same allies (Sixth Street and Legends) for the commercial exploitation of the new Camp Nou and the new Bernabéu

All the teams that championed this path of change where they still believe Madrid leads it have been falling, one by one. Florentinoand Barça, follows The door. It is not the only link between both leaders. Not at all. 30% of the commercial exploitation of the new Bernabéu has been entrusted to Legends and Sixth Street in exchange for receiving a contribution of 360 million euros over 20 years.

That agreement was signed in the white stadium in May 2022. Who will operate the new Camp Nou, whose first phase of works must be completed in November 2024, even if it is at 60% of its capacity? Well yes. Sixth Street and Legends. Agreement signed in June 2022, one month after the one signed by Florentino. Not only that.

Sixth Street, the North American investment fund, became the first lever activated by Laporta by paying 207.5 million euros for 10% of the television rights for the next 25 years. Then (July 2022), he sold the remaining 15% to Sixth Street in what was the second lever, receiving an additional 315 million more.

But everything went wrong with the outbreak of the Negreira case when information from SER-Catalunya revealed that Barça was paying the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) for almost 18 years covering the mandates of Gaspart, Reyna, Laporta, Rosell and Bartomeu. , who have staged the “cohesion” of Barcelona fans with a dinner (without any graphic image).

Apologies from Rafa Yuste

At first, Madrid was silent. But then, and under pressure from his fans, Florentino made the decision to appear as a private prosecutor, in addition to visualizing his distancing from Laporta with his refusal to go to the Camp Nou box. Negative that he has now repeated, despite the fact that he originally planned to go to Montjuïc.

“If Vinícius Jr is listening to me: the thing about Mikel Camps is an unfortunate tweet and it will not be repeated”

Rafa Yuste

Barça sports vice president

But Camps wrote that message (“it’s not racism, he deserves a slap in the face for being a clown and a lazy person, what do those unnecessary and meaningless bicycles in the middle of the field represent”), which he erased almost immediately when he saw the magnitude it was acquiring. “If he has deleted it, we are left with that. I don’t like anything that generates tension. I don’t like conditioning the referees or this tweet. I won’t be the one who generates tension,” said Xavi.

But it was already late, no matter how much Rafa Yuste, The Barça sports vice president, qualified its content in an interview given to Movistar +. “If Vínicius listens to me, the tweet will not be repeated by my teammate Mikel Camps or any other manager. Even if it is a mistake, it doesn’t have to be done,” the leader argued, describing it as “unfortunate.” his board colleague’s tweet.

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Although Florentino, for one reason or another, does not want to see Laporta again, no matter how well they get along in private. Business is one thing; appearances, another.