A new embarrassment around FC Barcelona chaired by Josep Maria Bartomeu after some WhatsApp messages published by http://elPeriódico.com. In them, reference is made to Leo Messi as "this hormonal dwarf" or "sewer rat" . Some messages where Gerard Piqué, Joan Laporta or Sergio Busquets are also mentioned. One more example of the bad relationship that existed between said presidency and the heavyweights of the blaugrana club at that time.
In the leaked screenshots, inaccurate messages from Román Gómez Ponti, former head of the club's legal department, are read. All in a WhatsApp exchange where Bartomeu himself, Òscar Grau, Jordi Moix, Oriol Tomás, David Bellver, Pancho Schroder and Javier Sobrino also participated.
...you can't be such a nice person with this sewer rat
Excessive attacks against Messi
These messages would originate on January 31, 2021, the day on which 'El Mundo' published part of Messi's contract . Context that Gómez Pontí took advantage of to insult Messi excessively by calling him a "sewer rat" and "hormonal rat", through this instant messaging social network.
"Barto, really, you can't be such a good person with this sewer rat . The club has given him everything and he has dedicated himself to marking a dictatorship of transfers, transfers, renewals, patrons (sponsors) just for him, etc. I will never be able to do it, but Pinto, the renewal of Suárez, and that of Jordi Alba, or the renewal commission for Fati (Rodrigo Messi, agent?) should be added to the figures of his contract? had a drug dealer as a partner) .... oh! But when things go wrong (pandemic) you receive the mythical WhatsApp: "President, lower the salaries of others, but don't touch Luis and me." I hope he marches among the indifference of the people, which is the worst thing that can happen to him (one more pesetero)", as reported by http://elPeriódico.com.
Allusions to Laporta and insults to Piqué
Still in the electoral campaign, the former manager Oriol Tomàs even speculates that Joan Laporta was the person who leaked the Argentine player's contract . Although Bartomeu seems not to be satisfied, they all agree that it is a way of pushing the Argentine player to leave to "save 120 kilos". In addition, the former president of the Catalan club admits that "this contract without a pandemic was totally acceptable", but that at that time it represented 15% of his budget. An amount that he considered "correct", especially "taking into account everything he generates".
It is necessary to have few scruples and be a huge hiccup of a whore
Gerard Piqué is also branded as "a great son of a b-word" just after the bulky defeat against Bayern by 2-8. A few words written, once again, by Gómez Ponti, visibly pissed off at the complaints from the FC Barcelona central defender who, according to http://elPeriódico.com, said that changes were needed in all levels of the club .
Busquets... and even the entire squad
A few words that soon turned against the entire squad when, this time in a letter, Gómez Ponti called the FC Barcelona players "spoiled and insensitive millionaires" in the midst of the Covid crisis and in negotiations for the reduction of contracts. Supposedly, the former manager affirms that "they have refused to agree with the club on the minimum measures to ensure our economic viability", alluding to the delicate moment the entity was experiencing. In addition, he points to Bartomeu to encourage him to face "under your leadership the drastic reduction in the salary mass of the first soccer team."
For example, Gómez Ponti goes so far as to advise Bartomeu to dismiss "those players who have no market and cannot be transferred ( Busquets can be an excellent example ) to dismiss them with minimal compensation and forget that they have gone through the club for being unsupportive" says the manager.
https://www.marca.com/futbol/barcelona/2023/01/12/63bff928268e3eca188b458b.html
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