🎙️| Joan Laporta responds....
🗣️: "What he's saying is complicating things. He hasn't said who will be the coach for basketball, handball, indoor football... This is just jumping on the bandwagon."
🎙️| Victor Font continues...
🗣️: "Barça has wasted having a professional structure over the years, including in the other sections. We worked on a new Palau. Now they're presenting us with a Palau that couldn't host NBA games."
Laporta: “Darren Dein brought the Puma contract to put pressure on them. And now we have the best contract ever. Nike had 28 million from Barça. There was an offer from Puma that was above market value. We secured the best sports equipment contract in history. This will be paid off in 14 years."
🗣️: “🎙️| Laporta responds...
🗣️: "That's a lie. Barça didn't pay Darren Dein £50 million, which is divided between 1.65% for Barça and 1.35% for Nike. He came in because relations between Barça and Nike were broken. We were fighting in court. He knows that Nike's contracts.”
🗣️: “If the best mediation agency charges half a million or 750,000 euros, why have we given away those millions? If Barça only pays 25, as the former president says, we have given away 24."
🎙️| Victor Font continues...
🗣️: "Speaking of lies, there are thousands and thousands of members who do not understand that to act as a mediator for a friend of his, he is paid 50 million to act as a mediator in the Nike contract.”
🎙️| Victor Font on the deal with Libero for Barca Vision...
🗣️: "Why did we sell Barça Vision to Líbero? Now to Aramark, which makes frankfurters. The business is generating zero revenue and has enormous potential. We've wasted five years."
🎙️| Joan Laporta responds....
🗣️: "The financial legacy we inherited was terrible. Now we have handball, hockey, and indoor football teams that have competed, and we have reduced the budget for basketball because we prioritize the first team."
🎙️| Victor Font continues...
🗣️: "The sporting situation isn't only limited to Football. We have the basketball section cut off, and in the women's team, six players are leaving and they don't know if they will continue."
Laporta responds: “5 years ago we found an old stadium and a team that wasn't winning, a club in ruins. You gave us the responsibility and now we have a new stadium, a great team and a healthy club. We said we would bring back the excitement to Barça. We will experience the best years of our lives."
Victor Font....
🗣️: "On the 15th, we have a historic opportunity. It's about choosing the Barça we want for the coming years. We have to let go of the “isms”. Do we want a Barça of transparency or one for tourists? Do we want a divided Grada or a Barça of the penyas?"
Laporta: “You sit behind the computer, copy what others do, then present it as if it's your own project.
But I don't believe that a club like Barcelona can be run from behind a computer screen.”
Joan Laporta: “The problem is that you can't do that, because you act with a kind of elitism. Your environment isn't here with the people, but behind a computer screen.”
Laporta: “While you are carrying out your campaigns and moving here and there, I have spent the time explaining to the members what we have done at the club.
You are constantly trying to mock what we are doing.”
Laporta: “Will you change this team? Will you change the current project? Will you change the new stadium? Will you change the signings? What will you change in Deco’s work? If you want, I can explain it to you.”
Laporta: “Let us see the matter clearly: If you want to change everything we have done at Barcelona, what exactly will you change?
Font: “Barcelona should not be in the hands of people who believe there are "good Catalans and bad Catalans."
Nor should it be in the hands of people who believe they are not obligated to explain things to club members, or who do not want the club to be a participatory institution.”
Laporta: “Moreover, you are lying now when you say that I distribute "cards" for who is a good Barcelona fan and who is a bad Barcelona fan. I did not say that Xavi is a bad Barcelona fan, nor that Messi is a bad Barcelona fan, nor even that you are a bad Barcelona fan.”
Laporta: “You are the one who lies systematically over these years. You said that we would transform the club into a public limited company, and that did not happen. I have repeated time and again that this was just a lie.”
Laporta: “First, the one who is lying is YOU. You are lying. Because I did not say that Messi would stay in the club, nor did I confirm that, because the matter depended on certain conditions.
Font: “The former president distributes cards of who is a "good Barcelona fan" and who is a "bad Barcelona fan." Now Xavi and Messi have become bad Barcelona fans! And even a member like Mr. Font has become a "bad Barcelona fan."
Font: “Severing ties with the best player in history, and spending the entire term in alliance with Florentino Pérez, are two marks of shame in this term. And that's why many members say: Let's turn the page, let's rebuild Barca together, and let's finally end the idea of "good Barca and bad Barca."
Font: “And everyone suffered when they saw the best player in history crying bitterly in August 2021 and leaving the club through the back door of the Camp Nou stadium.”
Font: “We must remember that this club does not belong to one person. Barcelona is not one president. Barcelona is 150,000 members and millions of fans who carry the club in their hearts.”
Font: “This was a LIE. Because the only person who had no plan to renew Messi's contract was the former president himself, due to his improvised management style.”
Font: “I remember five years ago when the former president [Laporta] said:
"Only if I win the election will Messi stay in the club, but if any other candidate wins, he won't stay."
Font: “The wound felt by many Barcelona fans is an emotional one in the heart. And if the greatest player in history had remained tied to the club without the relationship being severed, Barcelona today would be much greater.”
Font: “Then trying to close that wound by saying we'll hold a tribute match for him or a statue... This is one of the most regrettable things the club has experienced in recent years.”
Font: “Cutting ties with the greatest player in the club's history, especially when it's due to personal interests rather than putting the institution's interests first — and opening a wound among thousands and thousands of Barcelona fans.”
Laporta: “The topic is about credibility, and Messi will one day come out to explain what happened. But I believe the club members are smart and realise the truth.”
