Bartomeu criticizes Laporta’s “inaction” and reproaches him for having “forgiven” 16.5 million to Neymar

• Year end 19/20. “The majority approval of the result of the 2019-20 audit (at the assembly last June) validates the result of the mandate from July 2010 to June 2020. A mandate initiated by the board of Sandro Rosell, with the balance of a positive capital increase of 193 million, excluding the losses caused by the pandemic from March 14 to June 30, 2020, which, according to Royal Decree 1162/2020 of December 22, will not be considered negative economic results the calculation effect of the guarantee “, says Bartomeu, who adds:” Now there is a very different situation from the one that occurred in 2010, when the losses of 80 million in the 09/10 season gave a result of the mandate (2003-2010) of 47.6 million. These negative results were, then, a disastrous legacy left to us by your board “.
• Responsibilities exercise 20/21. “We resigned after the Procicat’s surprising position of convening the vote of censure. the 20/21 season, as it was our desire, executing the necessary decisions in order to avoid reaching the current financial situation “, explains Bartomeu, who adds:” The new board has not taken any of the planned decisions, leaving clear their inaction “.
• Planned decisions. The former president explains that his plan to postpone salary payments was based on the return of the public to the stadium in February 2021 and that, as the reopening forecasts were not met, he had in mind a 20% reduction. of salaries (about 90 million) during the 20/21 season. Bartomeu also thought of selling Barça Corporate’s four business routes to obtain “a minimum of 220 million that would have helped wipe out the losses caused by the coronavirus”. The former president adds 90 million of the salaries and 220 of the Corporate to the agreement with CVC through the League and predicts that the total figure would have allowed to fulfill fair play and would have caused “an affectation in the losses by the covid practically null ·the”.
• Criticisms of Laporta. “It is surprising the lack of reaction and action of the board to improve the balance of the 20/21 academic year even though she was fully aware of the situation of the club long before the election, when the manager transmitted it to all candidates” , etziba Bartomeu, who in particular is critical of the recent agreement with Neymar: “It is surprising the decision to forgive 16.5 million to the player in a dispute where expectations in favor of the club were clear and the auditor it did not oblige to supply any quantity “.
• Transparency with the due diligence. “I request that the detailed results of the audit be made public, and as soon as possible, and, if any, the precise information to all members of the irregularities that have allegedly been pointed out in order to avoid speculations and suspicions about allegedly criminal actions and also to avoid interested and biased leaks in the media “, Bartomeu claims, finally, in relation to the comments that Laporta has made about the irregularities that the due diligence is uncovering. Irregularities about which ARA reported mainly in the Espai Barça folder.

Bartomeu, therefore, dusts off the fleas of the 20/21 financial year and recalls that the calculation of the mandate that Rosell began in 2010 gives a positive balance of 96 million despite the losses due to the pandemic. What the former president does not say in the letter is that the debt has skyrocketed in the short term, that the Espai Barça is practically to be done in its entirety and that his figure is imputed and pointed out by several witnesses in the Barçagate case. .