‘Som un clam’, a group opposing Joan Laporta’s board of directors, presented itself publicly this Thursday at the Pavelló Tèxtil of the Fira de Barcelona before 1,500 people. Its leader is Joan Camprubí i Montal. His grandfather, Agustí Montal i Costa, was president of FC Barcelona between 1969 and 1977, and his great-grandfather Agustí Montal i Galobart, presided over the club between 1952 and 1964. “I am moved by Barça and the legacy of the Montal family. Being from Barça is being a family. We are at risk of extinction. We cannot lose the ownership model. We want to be the engine of change,” outlined Camprubí, who is clear that the first thing he would do is “recover pride, ensure the ownership model and incorporate a general director” and who would like the entire opposition, such as For example, the group led by Víctor Font, came together “to all row in one direction.”
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The presentation comes two days before the assembly of delegate partners is held with the last year and the budget pending approval. “We think that Barcelona is in an emergency situation. There is a real risk that it will cease to belong to the partners. At the club they say that they will try to make it not so, but then they send you surveys asking what you would think. There is a social, economic, institutional and ethical crisis that collides with the sporting crisis,” said Camprubí. “What worries us most is the institutional and social part. We are losing members and that is something we cannot allow,” he said, referring to the more than 10,000 members that the entity has lost in the last year after updating the census.
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“We are losing partners and that is something we cannot allow.”
Along with Camprubí, the businesswoman and partner Georgina Sánchez, daughter of Tente Sánchez, legendary captain and scorer in the Basel final, spoke. “I am looking forward to returning to the Camp Nou but with doubts. We don’t know at what price we will return. There are contradictions in the when and the how. There is a lack of transparency with prices and in the construction of the Palau Blaugrana. And above all, our partners are not being prioritized. “We want a fair, orderly and above all safe return,” he noted. “I also ask that the first game at the Camp Nou be a tribute to Messi,” Camprubí added.
I’m looking forward to returning to the Camp Nou but with doubts. We don’t know at what price we will return.”
She was followed by the lawyer and partner Marta Pascual. “There is no legal prescription that forces us to become an S.AD. The conversion will not make us improve economically or sportingly. It is not the solution to the club’s problems. But management must be professionalized, business lines must be opened and the partner must influence them,” he noted. Then Pascual stressed that at the meeting “there are more people here than at the club meetings.”
There are 1,500 people here. “More than in the last Barça meetings.”
The presence of Jordi Roche, former president of the Catalan Football Federation (FCF) and Girona FC, also stood out. “I want to win another Champions League. That’s why I’m here,” he said. “And because I believe that La Masia is in danger. The doors have been opened to international agents who have taken over the Masia and who only have an economic interest. That is already a danger. We also have to be stronger with UEFA and FIFA. We have no institutional power. We “follow” the president of Real Madrid,” he said to the applause of those in attendance.
Barça is not strong. “He follows what Real Madrid does.”
There was one last announcement. Jordi Termes, the creator of Bizum who has run to preside over Barça, joins the Som un Clam platform. “I join because they are talented people. But above all, they are good people,” he said. Then he focused on the economic issue. “I sum it up in one sentence. Barça must learn to make money. Without earning money you cannot pay players or reinforce the Masia,” he said.
“Barça must learn to earn money”
Other Barcelona fans who once worked at the club attended the event, such as the physiotherapist Juanjo Brau and Jordi Roura, director of youth football who signed Pau Cubarsí, Lamine Yamal and Fermín López.
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Joan Carles Raventós, former director of the sections and of BLM, Jordi Camps, former commercial director of Barça; Albert Ferrer, closely linked to the clubs and the social movement, as well as Carlos Galofré, a heritage expert, are also linked to this opposition group.
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