Bartomeu leaves Barça with the rope around his neck

Carles Tusquets will chair the Barcelona Management Commission.Toni Albir / EFE

The Generalitat's decision not to agree to postpone the vote of no-confidence against the FC Barcelona board for 15 days served as an alibi for President Josep Maria Bartomeu and his board to resign en bloc and avoid a referendum that they panicked after being signed by 19,532 partners.

Bartomeu torpedoed the process from the day the signatures were authenticated, on October 9, with the argument that he intended to close the accounts with more time and fewer limitations than the management committee that will be constituted today with eight members from the economic and disciplinary commission of the club and whose president will be the economist Carles Tusquets (Barcelona, ​​1951).

The condition of president of the economic commission therefore means that Tusquets should also have knowledge of Barcelona's accounts.

Bartomeu was concerned about the power vacuum that his departure could generate and the difficulty that the manager will have to hold elections in the short term - he has a maximum of three months - and to make a series of sporting and economic decisions that cannot be postponed and of great importance. supply "in the words of the president of Barça.

The challenge is to close an agreement at the negotiating table before 5 November to adjust the salary of the club's staff and workers, "a measure that, if not applied, can have very serious consequences in the immediate future of the club. club ”, in the words of Bartomeu.

Reduce 190 million.

Bartomeu's council has been the victim of grandstanding, which led him to present a budget of 1,047 million for the 2019-2020 season, the highest for a sports entity, to the 828 million planned for the 2020-2021 financial year —the The profit accounted for would be one million and includes public attendance at the stadium since February 2021—.

Losses last year amount to 97 million and it is estimated that the debt may exceed 800 million.

Numbers that, in any case, immediately demand that the wage bill be reduced by 190 million if one attends to the figures that Bartomeu used lately.

Messi's doubts.

The club has spent 1,092.35 million on transfers since 2015 and has failed to compensate for the departures of Neymar, Xavi and Iniesta.

Bartomeu made a mistake when trying to change piece by piece without paying attention to Barça's footballing culture, turning the president into a slave to the changing room ecosystem (the highest paid in Europe: 392 million).

Despite renewing Piqué, Ter Stegen, De Jong and Lenglet, whose salary has been reduced in exchange for expanding contracts to alleviate the entity's numbers, he has not managed to clear up the doubts that Messi has.

The Argentine, who was detained against his will by the former president last summer, can negotiate his future from January, when the presidential elections will surely be held.

The 10 can be a winning card for any candidate if he decides to stay at the Camp Nou.

Although Messi had a problem with Bartomeu, when the player was the great icon of the president's mandate, today he seems more willing to leave than to stay.

The Barçagate

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The Mossos keep open the investigation into the contract that Barcelona signed with I3 Ventures to monitor social networks and defame opponents and critics while questioning players like Messi and Piqué.

The resignation of six executives and the accusation of possible corruption, expressed in the phrase “maybe someone has reached into the box”, shook the Camp Nou.

Nor has the Neymar folder been closed after the club was already convicted of tax fraud and Bartomeu and former president Sandro Rosell were exonerated, one of the stains that many partners do not forgive the former leaders of Barcelona.

The Brazilian's flight to PSG marked a drastic change in Barça's relations with Qatar, the club's sponsor in 2010, an enemy since the Parisian club signed Neymar.

The prosecution has been a constant of the last two boards, auditors by nature since the liability action taken against Joan Laporta, the former president who will surely be presented again in 20.

The elections.

"The manager has no guarantee of being able to hold elections in the short term," warned Bartomeu, whom his opponents agreed to consider a plug to act and solve Barça's problems.

The elections must be called within a maximum of 90 days from today, so that they will surely be held in January, one month before the regional elections scheduled for February 14.

Although both are conditioned by the evolution of the pandemic, the president of Barça will be known before that of the Generalitat.

Bartomeu's relations with the Government have been especially tense since October 1, 2017, when the Barça team played behind closed doors against Las Palmas.

The president did not obtain the complicity of the Mossos or the Government that Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, asked him to suspend the meeting in the face of the police charges that occurred that day in Catalonia.

The independentistas have distrusted Bartomeu to the same extent that he has been described as a nationalist from Madrid.

The former president pointed to the Generalitat in his goodbye from Barça.

He had a forced exit, like Josep Lluís Núñez, Joan Gaspart and Sandro Rosell, while Joan Laporta overcame a motion of censure before exhausting his mandate in 2010. “I have been insulted and threatened”, denounced Bartomeu, who in his The mandate tried to redirect relations with the Cruyff family, a point of disagreement since Rosell's presidency, and ended up announcing projects that sound like heavenly music such as the Superliga, Barça Corporate and the financing of Espai Barça.

The problem is that no one took him seriously anymore since he began to play keys in January with the dismissal of Valverde.