“Revert? Different opinions converge at Barça”

The president of Barca, Joan Laportahas tried to justify the resignation of CEO Fsaid Reverter before the end of the first year of his mandate on March 7. “Ferran He came from a multinational and had been away from home for a long time. It’s been a very intense year, for him too, and it was time for him to spend more time with his family”, he explained in an interview on Barça TV and on the club’s website. “We understood perfectly and reached an agreement”.

Laporta underlined that “we have a good relationship, Today he sent me a message. And this is Barça, here everyone gives what they can and more for as long as they can. Some last longer and others less. It’s not easy”, he added, although he couldn’t help but hint at some points of friction. “Different opinions converge at Barça”. In any case, “I have good memories of him and he has opted for the family”

the march of Revert “does not affect the strategic plan” which has “very ambitious goals”. “We always like to aim higher but we are sure to achieve a good result. I have become more of an executive together with the treasurer. We have made a more transversal organization chart, with the departments more in contact with each other. I do not want a hierarchical club that makes it difficult to make decisions , there will be an executive committee that will be seen every Monday and every month, a management committee, like until now. It is time to clench your teeth and make important decisions and try objectives”.

Laporta He also wanted to make it clear that “we have not considered” a change in the club model. “It must always be owned by the partners, it is an important tradition. Depending on which sponsor gives it an important value, it must be maintained. Call it romantic but for our own interest.” And he has abounded in details. “I can hold discussions about it. There are people who think that it can be a public limited company but I do not share itbelieving that you can be stronger economically and fight with these state clubs, in which the money does not come from the world of football”. A fight that has insisted tries to combat the state clubs. “You make a public limited company , you take 20 percent to the stock market, you capitalize with 2,000 million, if we don’t set the same standards for everyone, these state clubs will always have more, if we put 4,000 they will put 16,000 “.

speak of a Barça well managed, “with a legal form like ours, it can continue perfectly, that’s why I defend that it belongs to the partners. I don’t see any other modalities necessary and they wouldn’t take us from where we are.” Therefore, we must optimize resources to the maximum, we have many economic levers to boost the club’s economy, we have the Barça space that will generate more income than now and the formula that we have found to finance it is very interesting because we will return the financing from the additional income once it has been built. We have traveled and we have seen the way of other clubs to see the performance of their savings. There are many ideas and it will generate more income for us.”

read also