Barcelona President Joan Laporta has definitely lived on the sting throughout his second tenure on the membership, however it seems to be like he might be near falling this time. The debacle involving Dani Olmo and Pau Victor’s registration, which may go away Hansi Flick with out each gamers for the remainder of the season, threatens to impress a political earthquake on the membership.
Laporta was elected again to the presidency in March of 2021, after Josep Maria Bartomeu was faraway from energy by a vote of no confidence from the members. Nevertheless he might be dealing with the identical destiny now. In Olmo’s case, their star signing, who price them €55m from RB Leipzig, can go away without cost with all €48m as a result of him from his six-year deal after simply six months if he stays unregistered and chooses to take action. Barcelona imagine they’ve executed sufficient to register him, however to date that continues to be to be seen, and if they’re flawed, it’s a €103m mistake that can fall squarely on his shoulders.
Each Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor are awaiting updates on their state of affairs. They are not listening to gives till their future is obvious. @QueThiJugues
— barcacentre (@barcacentre) January 1, 2025
In accordance with Diario AS, his political rivals are organising within the background to carry this up as the newest piece of proof that he’s not the perfect president to steer the membership. Victor Font, who ran in opposition to him in 2020 as a part of the Si al Futur group, and Joan Camprubi, who has been placing collectively one other rival group known as ‘Som un Clam’ are organising press conferences to handle the matter. In some cases, a possible vote of no confidence in opposition to Laporta is being mentioned.
To ensure that a vote of no confidence to happen, the movement should acquire signatures from 15% of members to be able to put the matter to a normal vote. That vote then should see at the very least a two thirds majority (66.6%) to oust the present president in cost.