Selling and lowering wages: Bartomeu's top priority

In the statement issued by Barcelona after the meeting of the board of directors in which it was decreed that Josep Maria Bartomeu exhausted the mandate, it was made very clear in the third paragraph that “The holding of the elections as of March 15 of next year implies that the board of directors assumes full responsibility in relation to the closing of the fiscal year of the 2020/21 season.” A phrase that the current directive interprets in the sense that they will be the ones who will assume the restructuring of the budget in the face of the crisis caused by COVID in order not to weigh down their successors, but that opponents interpret as an attempt by the current leaders to make up some deficit numbers that can only be solved by selling players or demanding a salary cut from the current squad.

One of the consequences of not advancing the elections is that Bartomeu's management team will take the club until June 30, although another candidacy is proclaimed in March, which would not be effective until July 1, when Bartomeu closes the fiscal year.

So, The current Barcelona board will have two market windows to try to correct accounting dysfunctions that promise to be very high. And not only because of the coronavirus. If they had resigned yesterday they would have lost both windows, if they were called in November, they could only sell until October. Now they win one more chance.

The risk that liability action That in its day many of the members of this board imposed on Laporta's in the 2010 relief when they were part of the Rosell board, appears as a threat if it is not the current economic team that closes the accounts.

That is one of the reasons that point from outside the box that would justify the decision taken at the meeting on Monday.

Therefore, in the face of the economic disaster that is looming in the closing of numbers that will be submitted to the approval of the assembly of delegates in October (be careful with that assembly, that Bartomeu may be sheared) The only thing left is to sell dearly to players who charge a lot and ask those who stay to lower their salary. Two initiatives that a board that is more false than ever seems difficult to achieve. But they are between a rock and a hard place.