Hindsight isn't 2020 - The 2019-20 Season Thread [R]

Mom, I told you not mix red with white colors in the wash

 

Messi should just drop a official bombshell before the imbecile board meets otherwise Bartomeu will stick around making multiple disastrous choices. I mean EVERYONE already knew/know Setien is out! We want other drastic measures. Bartomeu out, elections next month. Clean out, 30+ yo (Rakitic, Pique, Busquets, Suarez, Alba) slow turtles who drag their feet and the useless Craperto and Semedo. Survive fall and get back into the stable in winter/spring. Getting back on the horse will take a while.

 

So Koeman it is and no change otherwise, Bartomeu playing the Covid19 card and staying as long as he can to drain the club and cover his tracks. He's been saved so many times this guy it's unbelievable.

 

Give it a break! I'd still prefer Semedo to Craperto and day off the week. But both are useless in this Barca. I just want to throw up when I see Setien line up against Bayern! I mean both Semedo and Craperto LOL.

I think Alves alone at 40y would do better than these clowns.

 

As unofficially official as can be!

 

Would've loved to be a fly in the room when Barca offered the job to Koeman. What could've Barca said to make the job sound appealing? Does he have a say on the reconstruction of the squad? Or just another 10-month stop gap before Xavi takes over?

 

I wouldn't mind seeing a lineup like this next season.

MAtS
New RB Lenglet Todibo New LB
De Jong
Pjanic Puig
Griezmann Messi Fati​

Bench: Coutinho, Dembele, any old timers we don't manage to sell

The new fullbacks we buy should be young and energetic.

 

Basically Setien got sacked we all knew and nothing else, elections in March with Abidal staying.

What's changed then? Same shit as before! What does it take for Bartomeu to get out? If Messi cowering away again then I hope he suffers more humiliation. He should ********ing publicly threaten to leave NOW! What a useless captain and leader who hasn't spoken since the biggest humiliating defeat of his career and imo club history. The manita of failures in CL.

 

MATS out for 3-4 months due to knee surgery. Fantastic.

 

MAtS was pretty clearly hurting during the Bayern game, never kicked the ball clear more than a few yards. Sadly his injury suggests we will keep Neto rather than promote Pena (though Pena will be #2 for the first team so maybe that's a promotion).

Bigger concerns are Barto staying, yes, but he is a lame duck (cannot be re-elected). So it is really a question of when elections are held, and if he left early he'd just appoint one of his board members.

Truly bigger concerns are the rumors of Messi going to ManCity (or elsewhere) there is a whole betting market for Messi's next club, and Suarez going to Ajax.

 

As I posted a few weeks ago. Ugh.

 

As we thought a lost season

 

That explains his extraordinary performance the other night

 

Has Griezmann ever played wide right ?

 

Is there a way the socios can force an election now? This board is so incompetent, and they should resign if they have a milligram of pride.

 

The only way an early election can take place is for a club member to attempt a moción de censura (censure motion, or "vote of no confidence") against Bartomeu.

I'm not 100% certain on all of this but I believe the process goes along these lines...

- A club member presents a formal censure motion to the club against the current president.

- The club prints up forms for a motion to take place.

- The day after the forms are printed and made available to the membership, 14 business days is the time frame allowed to collect the required number of signatures to force a vote.

- 15% of the club's membership who meet the requirements to vote must sign the forms that favors the motion.

[sidenote]
It's sounds easy but in reality it can be very challenging to obtain the required number of signatures.
The best way to collect signatures has often been outside Camp Nou on match days because there are a greater number of members gathered in one location.
But there are usually only 1-2 home matches during most 14 day spans and even then, attendance is no guarantee with many local socios preferring to attend only the higher profile matches. Many members are not willing to go out of their way on a work day to find locations where they can sign a petition.
It's even tougher to get signatures during the summer off season when many are on holiday.
In September 2017 Agusti Benedito set a motion against Bartomeu and the confirmed number of soci at that time was 110,648. This meant that 16,570 signatures were required to force a vote.
Benedito withdrew the motion after a few days it began because of confusion as to when the deadline to collect the signatures ended.
[/sidenote]

- If the gathering of signatures is successful to force a vote, a vote against the current president would take place.
(EDIT)
At least 10% of the members must vote for the motion to be made official. Otherwise the president keeps his post.
Of those who vote, 66% must vote 'yes' on the motion for the president to be ousted.

- If the motion is successful, the election for a new president would take place.
(EDIT)
During this phase, club assets are frozen and no new player signings can be made.
Potential candidates would have to obtain signatures from roughly 2% of the membership in order for their names to be placed on the ballot.
The actual voting process for a new president would take place at Camp Nou during a 12 hour time frame.

Again, I'm uncertain all of this is 100% accurate but it's a general summary. I'm basing it on the voting processes from the censure motion against Laporta in 2008 and the 2015 presidential election.

 

^ Never thought I'd see this kind of post on club elections on this forum. Oh well... that's the time we live in!