Ronald koeman . New barca manager.

[EverTheOptimist]

Glamour tie with West Ham incoming

WHU will spank them.

How Busquets, Alba and Pique are mainstays of the team when their legs went 2-3 years ago is an amazing derelict of duty by Barcelona.

They won't be in the CL full stop next season, they cannot defend and they cannot score, some lean years for the Catalans coming up.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Though in real terms perspective - we Dream of being Relegated from the CL

We also aren't spending what they've been spending.

Apparently Juve's in hot water for logrolling deals like a pair of deals with Barca where each badly overpaid for a player, letting them bank the money for the sale now but amortize the cost of the purchase over several years, thus end-running FFP today at the price of FFP shackles tomorrow.

Imagine how broke we'd be if our accountant owner had been able to convince anyone to buy our players for more than a pittance, then spent all the proceeds in advance.

 

[degsy]

We also aren't spending what they've been spending.

Half a Billion isnt exactly back of the sofa money...even by Barca standards - but yeah

 

[Sharpies volley]

Just seen Koeman on the video of Wizzards, I wish it could be Christmas everyday, playing the sax and clarinet. Should have stuck to it, would have saved us a lot of heartache and a lot of money.

 

[FCBarça]

WHU will spank them.

How Busquets, Alba and Pique are mainstays of the team when their legs went 2-3 years ago is an amazing derelict of duty by Barcelona.

They won't be in the CL full stop next season, they cannot defend and they cannot score, some lean years for the Catalans coming up.

Doom I tell ya

Ferran Torres incoming will help in an attack with Dembele & Ansu under Xavi

 

[tsubaki]

Doom I tell ya

Ferran Torres incoming will help in an attack with Dembele & Ansu under Xavi

the feared DAFT strike force

 

[EverTheOptimist]

Doom I tell ya

Ferran Torres incoming will help in an attack with Dembele & Ansu under Xavi

Dembele is a free agent in summer!!!

He's been a disastrous signing under 4 managers now.

Defensively awful, need an entire backline.

FDJ for sale in summer.

Bleak times.

 

[LostLegend]

I thought these were supposed to be skint & on the brink of bankruptcy?

 

[Yarrgh]

I thought these were supposed to be skint & on the brink of bankruptcy?

Shhhh. Don't ask, don't tell. Nothing to see here. Business as normal.

And remember if you owe 5000 euros, you have a problem. If you owe 500 million euros, it's the lender that has the problem.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Shhhh. Don't ask, don't tell. Nothing to see here. Business as normal.

And remember if you owe 5000 euros, you have a problem. If you owe 500 million euros, it's the lender that has the problem.

Keynes in the house.

Laporta: Former Barca board could face charges

Barca president Joan Laporta said the club's previous board are facing criminal charges for the misappropriation of funds and false accounting.

www.espn.com

Only in Spain.

 

[EverTheOptimist]

Keynes in the house.

Laporta: Former Barca board could face charges

Barca president Joan Laporta said the club's previous board are facing criminal charges for the misappropriation of funds and false accounting.

www.espn.com

Only in Spain.

$1.57 billion in debt.

Going to be a while before they are illegally tapping up top tier players from other clubs.

I'm loving seeing their demise.

 

[Martin Alvito]

$1.57 billion in debt.

Going to be a while before they are illegally tapping up top tier players from other clubs.

I'm loving seeing their demise.

I want to see them do well, if nothing else because I am for Everton and whoever Madrid is playing.

Spain's laws are absolutely nutty, which leads to a lot of bizarre dramas like this one. Should they have been paying crazy agents' fees? Obviously not. Is prosecution the answer? No. There should have been mandatory transparency, and the socios should have sorted this at the time if they felt it needed sorting.

This is not, however, how Spain rolls.

 

[tsubaki]

Keynes in the house.

Laporta: Former Barca board could face charges

Barca president Joan Laporta said the club's previous board are facing criminal charges for the misappropriation of funds and false accounting.

www.espn.com

Only in Spain.

Not a capitalist by any means but there really does (and this applies to the UK) need a proper honest services offence that directors and executives as bad as Bartomeu was can be held accountable. If you are going to have shareholders, investors or members of companies then there needs to be some way of holding them criminally accountable for incompetence that is criminal. Bartomeu was phenomenally incompetent.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

$1,5bn was about the hole Real were in before the city bought their training ground for the exact amount of their debt and gifted it back to them.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Not a capitalist by any means but there really does (and this applies to the UK) need a proper honest services offence that directors and executives as bad as Bartomeu was can be held accountable. If you are going to have shareholders, investors or members of companies then there needs to be some way of holding them criminally accountable for incompetence that is criminal. Bartomeu was phenomenally incompetent.

So while in principle I agree, I also think that the way that you solve the problem is transparency.

Going after the previous regime post hoc is what banana republics do. I'm not going to mince words here. The banana republics got their legal systems from somewhere.

Bartomeu should have been bounced by the socios much earlier, rather than being permitted to run the club into the ground and then prosecuted for incompetence. Doing things that way just works better.