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With Lionel Messi’s killer quote from his recent Goal.com interview: ‘The truth is, there hasn’t been a clear project here for a long time, they juggle and plug holes with no real plan’, still floating in the air like a Bad smell. , Barcelona’s board of directors knows that they are about to be overthrown.
With 18,090 signatures, including one from the brother of a Barcelona first team player according to presidential candidate Jordi Farré, for Josep Bartomeu to resign as president now officially ratified – only 16,520 were needed – there must be a referendum on whether the board should withdraw.
The president must now decide to sit and wait for the referendum in early November, or to leave now.
If the current junta chooses to hold, then the referendum will need a two-thirds majority to force it to withdraw and the elections in early January.
Bartomeu could salvage some positive public relations by leaving his post now in the name of saving the club the expense and energy of organizing the referendum, a process that will be complicated by Covid-19 restrictions.
On Wednesday in Barcelona praise came from all sides for the organizers of the signature collection. Amassing so many signatures at a time when there are no games, eliminating the concentration of disgruntled fans from the day, has been a great feat and a test of how deep the discontent is.
But while the ‘More than a movement’ movement (distrust movement) has done all the hard work, Messi definitely gets the assistance.
His burofaxed transfer request, the subsequent strike and the general circus surrounding his attempted exit to Manchester City was actually one of the few things that Bartomeu seemed to handle well, but it was still one more blemish on his time as president. Keeping Messi happy is pretty much the first on the president’s to-do list and that was something else he had failed at.
Not all of Bartomeu’s detractors supported the motion of censure. Some argued that a January election was actually only two months earlier than the election that had already been set for March.
The benefit of a new president taking office in the first week of January is that there will still be three weeks left in the winter transfer window.
But whoever comes out victorious – Jordi Farré, Lluís Fernández Alà and Víctor Font have said they will remain and Joan Laporta could join them – will continue to have difficulties in obtaining transfer funds.
The financial impact of Covid-19 has left the club reporting losses of £ 88 million over the past season. The new man will also have to negotiate another round of pay cuts with the team.
The idea of avoiding those onerous tasks could even be the final push for Bartomeu to retire sooner rather than later. If you choose to buy more time, it will increase the feeling that some things still need to be put in order before everything can be discovered to the new managers.
What has left him in no doubt is the weight of feelings against him. There have been two referendums to remove the president in the history of Barcelona and in both cases the incumbent survived.
Bartomeu does not want to become the first to lose. I’d trust Covid-19 to avoid the necessary 10 percent participation of club members, but as signature collection has shown, people seem prepared to go the extra mile to remove you from office.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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