Messi’s burofax, epilogue of Barça’s decomposition

The sending of Leo Messi’s burofax to Barcelona to make his intention to leave official has been the epilogue of an institutional crisis, economic and sporty that had been cooking since the academic year after the triplet won, one night in 2015 in Berlin, and that is definitely putting Josep Maria Bartomeu’s resilience in the presidential chair to the test.

No other news that may happen in the coming days, weeks, months and years will cause as much negative impact on Barcelona as the goodbye to the best player in his history, who is close to leaving the club of his life in the worst possible way: after a historical defeat by embarrassing that would be his last image as a Barça player, without being able to say goodbye to the fans in a full Camp Nou, at odds with the directive and with the danger that his departure ends up in court.

He Barcelona free fall descent In recent seasons it seems to be too much even for a player who was determined to fully complete his professional career in Europe at the club that bet on him when he was 12 years old and came from Rosario.

The reasons to explain the dispatch of the burofax are many, but on the pedestal of the most relevant are undoubtedly the ruin that the club’s sports project became, its no relationship with the board of directors of Bartomeu and the goodbye by Luis Suárez, his close friend, who was told on Monday that he was unavailable via a phone call.

That is why a good part of Barça fans, starting with members of the opposition such as Joan Laporta, Emili Rousaud or Víctor Font, is pointing directly to the president and its board of directors as the culprits of the news that has already gone around the world.

But if the opposition is showing something in the hours after the news bomb, it is their disunity.

Minutes after Víctor Font said that his candidacy would support the motion of censure Announced in July by the ‘Cor Blaugrana’ collective, the ‘Manifest Blaugrana’ association issued a statement in which it explained that on Friday it will present a motion if, before that date, Bartomeu fails to redirect Messi’s situation and resigns together with his Board of Directors.

Motion of censure

In the carousel of reactions that took place this Wednesday at the last minute, it was not long before Jordi Farré, a pre-candidate in the 2015 elections and who has already run for the next elections, to announce that today, Wednesday morning, he would request a vote of no confidence. And so he has done first thing in the morning.

If the club gave the go-ahead to start it (some requirements have to be met), another vote of no confidence could take place until one year after the previous one.

The situation of Barcelona is grotesque and it is still impossible to specify what would be the magnitude of the consequences of Messi’s departure if it is finally made official.

But these would go far beyond the sports field, in which Barcelona is only three weeks away from starting the new season and has already run out of its third historical top scorer, Luis Suárez.

If Messi is added to him, this would happen just when the club must renew the contract with Rakuten, its main sponsor (it contributes 55 million euros per year), and with Beko (19 million euros per year), in addition to being in full search of a company that will take over the ‘title rights’ of the Camp Nou that must finance a large part of the construction of the Espai Barça.

It is evidence that the impact of the Barça brand would be much less without Messi and Suárez (especially without Messi), as it already began to be the summer that Neymar left. And the club treasury He is nowhere near to make large investments in stellar signings.

In these conditions, Ronald Koeman, the hero of Wembley, an emblem of Barcelona, ​​intends to start a new project that today is completely disoriented. Nobody knows what face the starting eleven that will be presented on the first day of the League will have.

The number of sacred cows that will not be part of it is uncertain and some players will have to arrive to try to lessen the huge craters that are originating in the Barça squad. The greatest of all, the one who is probably the best player in history.