Barça on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Joan Laporta, the Barcelona president, is currently staring down a no-confidence vote, and it’s a reasonable reflection of his club’s predicament. The registration fiasco around Dani Olmo is humiliating; the mismanagement of their stadium situation could be about to become catastrophic; and they can’t seem to win without their boy wonder. Here’s where they’re at as they prepare to take on Athletic Club in Saudi Arabia tonight.

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0:00.0	No, I'm really not the complaining type, but the things I do for you, things I do for love.
0:05.9	To start with, tell everybody, come and have a look at these videos on substack.com, Graham Hunter,
0:12.0	substack.com, Revista de la Liga.
0:14.6	Hello to Darrell Gerrity, long-time friend of the Bigot of your podcast and on Twitter,
0:22.3	brought a really good question about Trent Alexander Arnold and Rilvedere and Danny Carverhal coming back to that tomorrow.
0:27.5	For the moment, unless you specifically petition me to do this, it isn't really my impression
0:33.4	to do big match previews all the time.
0:36.8	It's early morning on Wednesday here in Spain and tonight
0:40.6	in Saudi Arabia again, sadly, the first semi-final of the Spanish Super Cup is played. Talk to you at length
0:48.0	about athletic club and what they're doing right and now why not have a look at Football Club Basona.
0:53.4	And why not have a little look at their background?
0:56.7	Again, usually it's more interesting talking about football and skill and thrill and backstories.
1:03.7	But Barcelona's institutional situation needs to be brought into context here, I think.
1:09.4	Right now, there are very strong mutterings of the
1:14.5	socios, influential men and women who are like shareholders, bringing a motion of no confidence
1:20.7	against Joanna Naporta. He survived one of those in 2008. Maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't
1:26.8	this time. Probably he merits it.
1:29.3	They still, although they've taken Danny Olmo and Paoo Victor out to Saudi Arabia,
1:34.3	they're still unable to register them as footballers for the remainder of the season.
1:39.3	The legal row goes on and will go on, but at a moment another failure.
1:43.3	You know that at 1.2 million
1:46.4	euros in debt globally you also probably know that they're playing at
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