The president of Barcelona admits that the golden stage of the team is over and that now a change is beginning, a thorough renovation.
Joan Laporta has never been afraid of challenges. And much less face them head on and without ambiguity. He already did it in 2003 when he took the club in a delicate sporting and financial situation, he dared in 2008 when Pep Guardiola asked him for the head of Ronaldinho and Deco , and wants to do it again in 2021, with the entity mired in debt and with losses that this season can easily reach 350 million. Sportingly, the men’s team is not doing well either. He has won the Copa del Rey , but he has suffered too much at the end of the season and continues to generate doubts about how to compete well in the next courses.
That is why Laporta has decided to carry out a profound renewal in the squad. For the new president, the glorious stage of the team is over. “The cycle is over,” he admitted loud and clear in the Festa de l’Esport Català organized by the Union of Catalan Sports Federations (UFEC). “We will enter a process of change because I think a cycle has ended and we are working on that” , has commented after celebrating the women’s Champions League won in Goteborg this past Sunday.
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Barcelona needs to lighten its salary mass, which impacts like never before on accounts that today generate many more expenses than income. “MundoDeportivo” has already dropped this Tuesday that some of the sacred cows are no longer untouchable and that players like Gerard Piqué, Sergio Busquets, Sergi Roberto or Antoine Griezmann They have numbers to come out if they do not lower the token considerably. And it is that not even the credit of 100 million granted by Goldman Sachs and that the American chain “ESPN” has advanced will serve to undertake flashy signings if several exits are not closed before, some of them traumatic.
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