Yesterday, technology deployed its possibilities to offer a live double vision of Barça. At the same time that the assembly debated and then voted on the accounts presented by President Laporta, the coach, Hansi Flick, appeared before journalists to give good news to the fans. De Jong, Fermín and Gavi return, available for the match against Sevilla, and Lamine Yamal will play, after a week of controversy between the Federation and the club. More will come in the future. At 17 years old he has become the flagship player for Barça and the national team, which is the same as facing two aircraft carriers willing to defend their flag with nuclear fire.
As the assembly had a telematic nature, they even talked about the importance of the carbon footprint to dispense with in-person voting, it can be assumed that there were numerous assembly members who moved between two screens, one to find out about the complex nooks and crannies that the budget observes. 2023-2024 and another to listen to the statements of Flick, suddenly converted into a club factotum.
Managing abundance requires as much or more intelligence than scarcity.
Laporta won by a landslide, a vote that forces us to reflect on the representative value of the assemblies in clubs such as Barça, Real Madrid and Athletic, whose government theoretically belongs to the members and not to shareholding packages. 900 members participated, 22% of the total assembly members who, by delegation, represent a social mass of 110,000 people with the right to vote in the elections for the club’s presidency. This is a model that, in principle, aims to streamline the annual control mechanisms of the boards of directors, without resorting to the “one member, one vote” formula.
The formula is as old as the existence of the clubs that use it, but it introduces democratic deficit, general inhibition and manipulative temptation. Of course, nothing surpasses the influence of the team’s results, no matter if the vote is universal or delegated to the delegates. While Flick answered questions from the press, his importance was capital in the development of the assembly of delegates and in the approval of the budgets. Joan Laporta has found the best ally in the world in the complicated conditions that Barça is going through, 91 million extraordinary losses or 11 million ordinary profits up or down.
Flick leads the epic story of a team that has shaken off all the murria in the midst of obvious precariousness. A little over two months ago, Barça started the League at Mestalla with hardly any personnel and a line of midfielders made up of Marc Bernal (17 years old), Marc Casadó (21) and Pedri, fresh from an injury in the Euro Cup and a very limited participation in the 22-23 season. To the rampant mistrust incubated in the previous year, was added the string of injuries and the declining feeling that Lewandowski had conveyed.
Barça won at Mestalla and changed the pessimistic predictions – the injuries of Olmo, Ter Stegen and Bernal added more salt to the drama – for a narrative that arouses admiration. Flick has managed the precariousness with a masterful hand, to the point of transforming several players unknown to the general public into solid starters, capable of competing for position with the established ones. Along the way, Barça has transformed itself into a brilliant team, imaginative with the ball and committed without the ball, a team that mixes
the elegant tradition of the house with German fervor.
Against Sevilla, the first of a four-game sequence that includes the confrontation with Bayern, Real Madrid and Espanyol, Flick will have a very wide network of midfielders. Dani Olmo, De Jong and Gavi return. It would probably be the average that any fan would have in mind this season, but they are in for some fierce competition. It is great news for Barça. Only one doubt emerges: managing abundance requires as much or more intelligence than scarcity.
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