A sausage of pages. That is, a peasant sleeve cut, in its Catalan version. Although a pagesnot be exactly the same. But it doesn’t matter. This is how Laporta expressed himself, it is not known exactly to whom when, released by the CSD resolution on the Olmo casemanaged to do what he has been doing since he arrived at Barça: buy time. Or what is the same, generate enthusiasm, build new expectations that cover up failures. Ask for unlimited credit and pay it back with more credit until your body can handle it or, in this case, the club. Given Sunday’s handball against Real Madrid, the invention will continue to work. And I’m sure that at the end of the match many culés made their own sausage at home – and in Jeddah – because this is what football is also about, releasing tensions, even if you are convinced that you are not right.
The theory of credit, on the other hand, only works as long as you don’t stop pedaling, that is, keep asking for more than whatever is borrowed, to cover the previous debt. Because this is how Barça and the president himself are, a fascinating, smart, intuitive, trickster and fun guy, installed day and night on a trapeze without a net from which he always falls standing up. One of those museum snake charmers, but a president on loan, with unfinished business with half the world. Including Florentino Pérez, judging by some details, such as the silence in the case of Dani Olmo, which could only be explained by that persistent idea of creating a parallel business in football called the Super League.
Laporta, the great winner of the Super Cup, has achieved exactly what he wanted these days: noise. The case, in case there was not enough with Ayuso, the attorney general, Franco’s celebrations or Pedro Sánchez’s brother, will also now be part of the political sphere. The president of Barça is comfortable there. And on Sunday he also obtained the only thing that could provide rhythm and rhythm to all that cacophony to organize it in the form of music: five goals. A symphony directed from the pit with a sausage as a baton, which allowed him to go down to the grass, raise the glass and take a confetti bath with the players, who have always seen in him one of their own, even though his mismanagement could cost them their lives. federative token.
Laporta’s best trick has been Hansi Flick, a monumental coach who, it must be said, was always his first choice when he won the elections in 2021 (he ended up signing for the German team). If the ball goes in, no one protests. And on Sunday Courtois could have collected it from his goal three more times than the five that went up on the scoreboard. That’s a credit like a cathedral. And Laporta, despite the last month of grotesqueries and bungles, can be very calm. It is also convenient for those who organized a motion of censure, because as long as they win, whoever wants to be in the photo is going to make a fool of themselves.
This Tuesday, after his victory, Laporta will be able to calmly appear before the press after a month of silence. Now yes. And perhaps he will say, as we think here, that there is nothing wrong with a sausage. But some of us would like him, while he continues to gain time (and many titles), to also do it to the Qatari government that has bought the VIP seats in the new stadium and whom he criticized while sponsoring Barça with the previous board; to the regime of Saudi Arabia, whose crown prince—according to a White House report—ordered the torture and murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi; also to the Super Cup, which is held in a country where women are harassed in the stadiums, to the commission agents and agents who walk around the club these days or, if you ask, even to the Super League, that dark nebula that maintains to the president of Barça on the arm of Florentino Pérez.
