FC Barcelona: war is declared against Joan Laporta

Leader of the La Liga standings, FC Barcelona is doing well sportingly. On the other hand, the situation is less rosy behind the scenes. Next Saturday, the Blaugrana are organizing a community meeting. On this occasion, President Joan Laporta is supposed to validate the accounts of the Blaugrana club for the 2023/2024 season. But everything indicates that the boss of the Culers will experience a very complicated moment. “The entire opposition unites for the first time to ask for Barça’s accounts to be re-established before the Assembly”title El Periodicojust to make it clear what is likely to happen in three days.

As a reminder, the accounts carried out by Barça conclude at a loss of €91 million. Except that for Laporta’s opponents, this amount would likely be higher. The first to draw was the former presidential candidate, Victor Font. “I ask the members to vote against the approval of the budget. We continue to see the same tics as during Bartomeu’s previous term. We don’t know how to manage Barça’s immense potential. This is why we are being fooled. They are selling us a false story. Over the last four years, we have spent €1.041 billion more than we earned. » Since then, many social groups have joined Font.

Did Laporta overvalue Barça Vision?

Today, Marca therefore confirms what El Periodico indicated above, namely that several groups of socios (Compromissaris FCB, Dignitat Blaugrana, El Senyor Ramon, Seguiment FCB, Sí al Futur, Som un clam, Suma Barça, Transparència Blaugrana i Un Crit Valent ) published a joint press release to denounce the incompetence of the current management of the club. “We, the collectives of socios, are united to express our concern about the current management of the board of directors of FC Barcelona, ​​a management which can be improved; a management which, until now, has been characterized by a lack of planning and rigor, a lack of the promised transparency that we consider adequate, and a lack of proactive behavior in promoting real member participation. » Clearly, everyone criticizes Laporta for publishing accounts that do not correspond to reality.

What makes socios tick is a report produced by an audit company, the Grant Thornton firm, which explains that the “losses should be higher”. The reason? This company would have expressed serious doubts about the valuation of the company Barça Visión, the club’s digital subsidiary. The 51% of Bridgeburg Invest (commercial name of Barça Visión) held by the club was thus valued at €208.16 million. However, the audit company recommended devaluing the value of Barça Visión. And in case such a scenario occurs, it would deal a serious blow to the cash flow column and therefore automatically increase the amount of losses. You will therefore have understood: Joan Laporta is undoubtedly not going to experience the best Saturday of his managerial career.