Laporta responds: live press conference

Joan Laporta’s opening presentation ends and Question Time begins

Bartomeu’s letter: “I have received Bartomeu’s letter, he wanted to make it public, I respect him, and after reading it carefully it is full of lies, with an effort to justify the unjustifiable, point by point it is an exercise in despair, he takes advantage of a moment of convulsion of the Barcelona. I do not share the accounts it does. They say that they are not responsible for the 2020-2021 financial year and are responsible until March 2021. The accounts that were closed are their responsibility. I have already experienced this in the past. They reiterate a lie. In the club was institutionalized that if you repeat a lie it becomes reality. It insists that my management had negative results, when a court made it clear that it did not. All this causes a dramatic economic and patrimonial situation. “

On the presence of the fans at the Camp Nou: “They were reciprocated by the team, we are in a context where we must not stop saying that Barcelona is in turmoil, the best player in the history of Bara has left the team and there was an atmosphere of desire for a new era to begin, and It was shown that Bara is above all. The audience cheered and the team responded by leaving their skin “

12.13 hours

“El Bara has a negative net worth of 451 million euros. It has forced us to work to show our creditors that the club is viable. We have had to demonstrate credibility. We have a negative working capital of 553 million. It is the difference of what we owe and what they owe us. The bank debt has risen to more than 600 million “.

12.09 hours

“We have expectations before the due Dilligences. We have losses of 468 million and we have already presented them in LaLiga. The covid impact is 91 million. The Baa has a negative net worth of 491 million, it is very delicate because it has forced us to work with the auditors so that they believe us that there is a company working and have the credibility of the auditors “

12.07 hours

“We have not found advance money with nine percent interest. With the refinancing of 560 million, at one percent, it has allowed us to assume the situation”

12.04 hours.

“We have encountered an erroneous economic salary policy, which generates many damages, is what the experts of the inverted pyramid say, the young very short contracts and the very long veterans; We find urgent works at the Camp Nou and that is what We found in a 2019 report that warns of danger to the public. There were 19 pathologies that cost 1.1 million. Thanks to this action we were able to open the Estadi yesterday. If there had been a game earlier, we would not have been able to play at the Camp Nou, because we can’t put the fans at risk “

12.01 hours

“I want to put situations in context and explain what we have found in the club. We came across some numbers that I would like to present in a way that is understood. The first thing we had to do is request a bridge loan of 80 million, because otherwise we cannot pay the payroll “

From 12.00 in the morning there will be a press conference by Joan Laporta in which economic matters will be the main arguments of the same, since they will proceed to explain the audit to which the club has been subjected, in addition to answering publicly to the statement of former president Josep Mara Bartomeu and explain the reasons that led him to say no to the agreement with CVC.