Laporta continues the 'clean' of directors at Barça

Joan Laporta continues desincorporando directors of the FC Barcelona after the renunciation of the CEO of the club, Ferran Reverter, the past 8 February. This Tuesday produced the exit of Paco Latorre, director of Barça Studios, and Jordi Balsells, director of Barça Licensing & Merchandising (BLM); besides Rubén Bonastre, of the Social Area. The dismissal of Bonastre was imminent, since it had worked in the club from 22 years ago.

Rubén had arrived to the Barça in the year 2000, during the mandate of Joan Gaspart, to commission of the pedagogical coordination of The Masia. His last charge was like coordinator of training and sport. By the contrary, the course of Latorre was the most striking, since it produces in the middle of the negotiations by the sale of 49% of the actions of Barça Studios, one of the most important businesses that has to close the club to improve his finances.

Laporta Expects to invoice near of 350 million euros by an operation in which, when seeming, the exit of Latorre is key so that the sale concretise in the terms that the president blaugrana demands. And it is that, further of the urgency of the Barcelona for doing box with the actions of the audiovisual producer, still does not exist a consensus in the directive on if sell 49% or 30% of the actions.

Paco arrived to the club in 2015 of the hand of Josep Maria Bartomeu to assume the direction of Barça TV. In 2018 it did charge of the audiovisual project, charge that kept until this Tuesday. The another managerial that goes out immediately of the institution is Jordi Balsells, director of BLM. His exit was sung after the course of Reverter, the one who carried him to the club in July of 2021 to do charge of the business of retail.

Laporta Follows restructuring the managerial blaugrana

The movements in the directive of the FC Barcelona began in November of 2021 with the exit of Ferran López, ex boss of security. This month also went out Carles Folguera, member of the area of methodology of the selections of the Barça and director of The Masia between 2002 and 2019. In February, in addition to Reverter, went out José Elías, member of the commission of the Espai Barça. In March of 2021, Jaume Turned, the one who had to be the vice-president of the club, renounced to the few days of the electoral triumph of Laporta by personal reasons. Definitely, the first year of the president culé has been more turbulent of what a lot of expected.