Barça’s biggest goal, by Xavier Bosch

Will come Lewandowski? How many millions will it cost us to get him out of the Bayern? Once you are at Camp Nou, how many goals will you be able to score? Y Dembele’sWill you renew for two years? And will we really sell ourselves to the talented Frenkie de Jong? The informative summer snakes, more snakes than soap operas, give clues to the immediate facts that concern fans of the Barça. There are fewer Catalans who are interested in whether or not we sell the other 15% of audiovisual rights in the League, if the Club is capable of reducing debt or where the Museu del Barça is going to be installed during the Camp Nou works. They don’t know much about it either. Barça spacethat work as monumental as it is necessary, for which the Club is going to borrow other 1.5 billion of euros. The economic snowball continues to grow, the titles do not arrive and it seems that another blank year could be the end of the world. Well no, he Barça recent has taught us how after five years in white never seen (the last of Núñezall 3 of Gaspart and the first of The door) came the best streak in history, with the glorious cycle of almost two decades. Soccer-wise, the Barça It will come back and, sooner rather than later, it will lift trophies again… But, in the short term, Barça has a great goal that is much more transcendent than everything that has been said: the reform of the Statutes. That is where the Club is playing its way of being and its future. It is the most serious, decisive and delicate issue that we Barcelona fans have on our hands today. Much more than the replacement of the captains, the economic levers, Goldman Sachs the renovation of Gavi. All this happens, but Barça will remain and, for this, we need to adapt the rules that govern us.

The current reform of the Statutes has to be more than correct, impeccable. The Club It must be endowed with rules in accordance with the 21st century, which contemplate an irreproachable governance model. The new Statutes must give the partners, the owners of the institution, guarantees of transparency and instruments of counterpower to control the board of directors of the moment. Now we have seen, in the blink of an eye, how the new Sports Law already allows the incoming boards not to have to guarantee 15% of the budget and, in addition, the compromising partners voted for The door that two consecutive years of losses did not imply the dismissal ‘ipso facto’ of its board of directors. Meanwhile, the main internal auditor that the board should have, which is the figure of the Compliance Officeris none other than Sergi Atienzathe criminal lawyer who was a lawyer in the office of Laporta & Arbós.

The Statutes must be precise rules of the Club model, its control and transparency mechanisms, whoever is in charge. They should never be a dress tailored to the convenience of the meeting at any given moment. Thus, for example, seeing that from 2022 telematic voting will be more and more common, the new Statutes should include which decisions are passed by referendum and which are not. And, when the day comes, how the honesty and transparency of each of these telematic votes is guaranteed. It is obligatory that where until now there is opacity, there is light. If we equip ourselves with a better, more modern, refined, detailed tool that takes into account all the edges, Barça will come out ahead and guarantee another hundred years of goals and emotions, whatever the name of the President that the members decide to vote for.