Joan Laporta has walked through the Assembly of Compromisarios that has been held this afternoon in the Camp Nou. It has amply approved all the points of the day, some as complicated as the acceptance of the financial year 19-20, the budget for 20-21 or the refinancing of the debt with a credit of 525 million. But the president, who, on the other hand, did not want to put to a vote the controversial Super league. He has not risked being knocked down. He has only defended it, but no decision has been made about it. He wants to buy time. Laporta remains clinging to the competition indifferent to the sanctions that the UEFA.
The Catalan lawyer has made a great defense of how positive the participation of the Barcelona in the European project. He has stopped to explain how the UEFA has threatened and pressured the clubs until of the 12 founders only three remain, Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid, and has also reiterated the urgent economic need to obtain more income, to fight against state clubs, such as the PSG, that has taken from them Wijnaldum folding the token. He has even highlighted the “solidarity” of the tournament: “The entire football pyramid will benefit, clubs large and small.” And it has omitted those possible sanctions, relying on judicial decisions.
But Joan Laporta did not want to put to a vote this afternoon the Super league, aware that the result was negative taking into account the reluctance that exists among the social mass. You have not risked, you want to play that card when it is a winner.
Strategy
The Barça president wanted to save time. But Laporta he does not give up. With the postponement of the vote, what he does is to be able to better prepare his strategy and his planning to convince his social mass and also the clubs that have backed down on the project. Inter, Milan, City, United, Liverpool… they have gotten off the adventure and he thinks he can still be redirected. And when the initiative takes shape and has the applause of society, it will be then when it is presented to its delegates. Not before. He is still determined to get it done.