Laporta was charged this Friday morning to the coach of Barça B, Francisco Javier García Pimienta, uncooked technicianknown to the general public but highly valued by those who closely follow the Barça quarry. With García Pimienta, Jordi Roura and Aureli Altamira, responsible for grassroots football, leave. In the afternoon, Laporta pointed to the offices and the club announced the dismissal of Guillermo Amor, a reference at La Masia and current director of Institutional Relations. Instead of García Pimienta, Sergi Barjuán is running as a favorite for the Barça B bench. Nothing is known about the replacement of Amor at this time.
It is the purge of Laporta, which wants to end the vestiges of the Bartomeu regime. It can be said that Ronald Koeman and Ramon Planes, technical secretary and now Mateu Alemany's right-hand man, are the only survivors of the president's cleanup. And Koeman has been saved by the hood. First, because Laporta did not find a replacement for the Dutchman and Guardiola did not question whether to move from City when the new president asked him. Second, because the termination of the Wembley hero's contract had a price: no less than 12 million euros.
Laporta, in addition to hiring Jordi Cruyff as an ideologist, has moved all grassroots football. He has made José Ramón Alexanco responsible for the quarry, despite the fact that Mateu Alemany fired him at Valencia. Kluivert also does not count for Laporta, despite the fact that the Dutchman was a player in his first stage in the presidency.
Laporta has traced in football the plan that he had implemented in the professional sections. After dismissing its head, Albert Soler, now the CSD's new general director of Sports, fired the basketball manager, Nacho Rodríguez, former Barça player of the triplet in 2003 and rebuilder of a team that was in the well and which he left Cup champion and leader of the Euroleague. In handball, and with the shadow of Enric Masip behind, he has informed the coach, Xavi Pascual, that he will not continue, at the doors of the Final Four in Cologne. The most surprising thing is that Laporta has also decided to do without David Barrufet, world handball legend and club heritage, who had been working in the house for 37 years. In futsal, Andreu Plaza, who won the Champions League less than a year ago, has been 'loaded'. He is also going to reform hockey.
Laporta also got rid of Òscar Grau, former CEO of the entity, and Romá Gómez-Ponti, former head of legal services. The two are involved in Barçagate. Barça will be responsible for the costs of all these rescissions, which Laporta has wanted to accelerate before June 30 to charge it in the account of the previous year, which Bartomeu started. Thus, you can start the 2021-22 season with zero accounts and your trusted people. “Losing has consequences,” Laporta said a few weeks ago. Win, if you were with Bartomeu, too.