Toni Freixa speaks of “flagrant disloyalty” of Laporta to the club

The candidate for the presidency of FC Barcelona Toni Freixa has described as “flagrant disloyalty” that of the former president and electoral rival Joan Laporta towards the Blaugrana club for a letter sent to the Management Commission about his activity and about the signing of Èric Garcia, and for that reason he asks for “respect” for the entity by everyone.

“It is a flagrant disloyalty to the club. I tell the members of the Manager not to be afraid, not to feel threatened, and that the signing of Èric Garcia is the signing. It is time to ensure his hiring, who will surely become the captain of Barça. We ask the Manager not to feel threatened and to sign Garcia's signing so that he can come free, “he said at a press conference.

Words addressed to Joan Laporta after a letter sent by the candidate to the president of the Manager, Carlos Tusquets, asking him not to sign Èric Garcia, among other things, emerged. A letter that according to Tusquets and Freixa contains “threats” from the former president.

“My reason for the appearance is to make the club respect, apart from having made an allusion to the fact that the former president and candidate Laporta did not want to document the agreements of the peculiar body that the Manager and the candidates make up. And what I ask of everyone is institutional loyalty to be responsible, “he asked.

And, according to Freixa, Laporta refused to record the meetings between the Manager and the candidates. “It's time to explain things, to claim respect for FC Barcelona and ask for institutional loyalty. ANDIt's time to dismantle false theories that appear in the environment and that are installed like a mantra and seem to be true, “he said.

“In the end, everything responds to the strategy of wanting to attack the club, if necessary without elections and if necessary by voting on the 24th with a pandemic municipal confinement and without the members being able to vote. It is the same, what they want is to do outside a Directive, a Manager and elections in a pandemic. This is the framework “, Freixa contributed about the reason for his appearance.

The leader of the 'Fidels to Barça' candidacy feels “offended” by this situation, in his view “the consequence of a campaign to wear down the club.” Thus, he defended the role of the Management Commission. “They are not squatters, it is a body provided for in the Statutes that comes into force if the Board cannot finish its mandate. Suffice it to say that a Management Commission has no legitimacy, and that it can only call elections,” he defended them.

“We have always gone with the attitude of helping the club, not of pursuing electoral interests and going out and denouncing in the media what is not said in the meeting. That is why I asked to record the meetings in minutes. Laporta did not agree, assuring that we did not have that responsibility. But if something is not expressed inside, I do not understand that the members of the Manager are threatened from the outside, “he reiterated, again referring to Laporta.

“This campaign to take over the club without being able to vote, to do it quickly, I understand that it is so that the democracy of the club is not respected and it ends up being a SAD. That is the great danger, that the club ceases to belong to the partner, “he concluded, this time without making direct reference to any of his rivals in this electoral race, Joan Laporta and Víctor Font.