Every day, a bigger nonsense. And last week, a few in a row. Okay, they don’t want anything good for us, nothing new in that. Yes, they want to destabilize Barça whenever they can. Do not confuse substance with anecdote, because this confusion serves to give them reasons and arguments on a silver platter daily, with an unworthy seal undeserving of the greatness of this club. What if we stop searching for excuses and we assume our own responsibilities, otherwise we will keep suffering, without looking to end this double president’s term that, obviously, has gone from bad to worse. Now they no longer erode the image and reputation of the club to the whole world. Now, they are just ridiculous, like in their failed attempt to manipulate Oriol Giralt to try to revive a spying case that was archived in a few hours by the judge, even though their servants and accomplices will continue to do whatever they can to avoid Laporta from being the Barça president again. The ex-president is certainly not a saint, but these people and his followers resuscitated him and now they are on their way to canonize him.

Against this flood of excuses and subterfuge, we must answer the rhetorical question that the vast majority of Barça fans do not want to face: In whose hands are we? The leaks, made inadvertently or not, of the Bartomeu statement in front of Judge Ruz generates almost shame and embarrassment, only for talking about people who are no longer with us, who, ultimately, did not negotiate neither the price nor the conditions of Neymar, neither had continuously deceived Barça fans, neither had any involvement nor responsibility in the design of this financial engineering. It is possible to talk a lot about the exploitation that this board has done to Vilanova’s image, but we prefer not to put him any longer in the middle of it, at least as a sign of respect that his memory deserves.

The case is that we already know the statement of the president in which is suggested the possibility to reach an agreement with the judge, which is the implicit way of admitting the irregularities committed in search of a smaller penalty. So, they knew that they did not act under the law, under the way that is needed when you rule a club like Barça. This is new and never expressed in public before. Another move: Calling the assembly to make the members legitimize the management of this board in this nonsense does not have any other objective than to avoid, also, any responsibilities. Then, they would no longer have to personally face the sanction of €22 million that the judge asks from the club, indicted without any fault except for being ruled by irresponsible people. They are not going to resign because they are expecting to win titles before announcing that they are betraying their oath again and have decided to end their term when it is time, in a year. They will resist as much as they can, hoping for a gift from Messi and company. It is not worth it to talk about Vinyals’ statements, neither of those that have deteriorated a La Masia that couldn’t be touched (“La Masia no es toca”), but could be damaged, from what we’re seeing. For the sake of Barça, we prefer elections soon to change the current board. They are clinging to their chairs praying for some triumph to encourage members and Barcelona fans; they are only focused to win the comparisons with Real Madrid. They resist and resist in order to not call for elections now, and they will keep floating in the middle of the shipwreck, the only thing that interests them. Until they finally drown. The problem lies in how much they have damaged the image and reputation of the club. In whose hands are we?

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