LAPORTA ENDS HIS CURRENT TERM IN 2026
A pre-candidate to compete with Joan Laporta in Barça's next elections has been confirmed
Published:19/03/2024 - 11:00h
Updated:19/03/2024 - 18:45h
FC Barcelona will face a change of president for the summer of 2026, with Joan Laporta clearly trying to continue at the helm of his project, but the Barça president is beginning to have some possible competition for the position
Marc Ciria is partner of the FC Barcelona in addition to being a recognised financial, the one who chair Diagonal Asset Managment. With this profile, Ciria surprised in this start of semanar when announcing his precandidatura to the elections of the Barcelona team for the next year 2026 in the middle of an interview that conceded for the newspaper 'Sport'.
The employer wanted to ensure from there that it is a "passionate " by the Markets, of the Barça and of the moment that live", in an attempt to be able to begin to enter his candidature for that process, in which Joan Laporta will try to extend his second stage like president of the Barça. However, Ciria sustained that it always has showed a lot of worry in the economic field of the club.
The partners of the FC Barcelona will open to the change?
The economist aimed that "the Barça has a desfase of more than 400 millions in the ordinary exploitation. Something that has compensated with the extraordinary income (crowbars), from here the profit, but is not a sustainable situation in the time", analysed the precandidato for the Barcelona presidency. It is important to highlight equally that the process for his official candidature still will have to visit an important process.
In the interview, Ciria went back to evidenciar his critical on the economic management of the board of Laporta and especially with the previous of Josep Maria Bartomeu, in spite of having been part of Laporta in 2015. On why it did not repeat this posture in 2021, the employer aimed that "it did a lot that it did not have relation with Laporta. Besides, I think that it configured a good economic team with Jaume Turned in command", sustained.
Asked after the main ideas around which will turn his possible candidature, the financial expert evidenció that has the very clear ideas, aiming that "I want a Barça sustainable and viable that bet by a project of club. I do not want to a trainer: I want a sportive project, a technical office 'top' world-wide, a general direction 'top' to executive level, a project 'top' regarding digitalisation... We have to step forward to do an absolute change. It is the moment, from the work and the talent", revealed.
