Jon Neu
Banned
There is no "national press", there are press in every region and they all attack everyone including themselves relentlessly that is a fact. Catalonia does not listen to any other press other than their own let alone listening to any press from Madrid and guess who is in charge of FC Barcelona and the Catalan press both? yes people from Catalonia, again blaming any other region press is a flimsy excuse for Barcelona.
Yes, there are national press and national TV's.
Antena 3, Telecinco, TVE, Cuatro, La Sexta, etc... They are all national TV and they are all Madrid based and they are all so pro Madrid and so anti Barça is not even funny. TV3 is only catalan based, it doesn't hold the same power as all of those, like not even close.
Not accounting for the huge impact the press and the media has on almost everything (specially politics and football), it's just being obtuse.
Ronaldinho era was the start of Barcelona best years and he elevated the club from being decent to being scary all over Europe. Then the academy generation started to trickle in supported Ronaldinho and then took over completely when he was out. the academy generation was not the work of Laporta and signing Ronaldinho was the luck of Beckham refusal to go to Barcelona and choosing Real Madrid and Barcelona was not close to getting relegated. Again Laporta was a good president who did a great job taking advantage of the situation and keeping Barcelona steady not a genius in my opinion.
Best team to ever play the game? I respect your opinion but many including me disagree of course.
Again, Laporta build the Ronaldinho era and then he build the Pep era, claiming it was luck after seeing how his successors took the best team in Europe and destroyed it, seems like a silly unlogical dismiss of the importance Laporta had.
He took a team that was almost about to descend to the second division and built a super team with Ronaldinho first and later, when the Ronaldinho era vanished and we had to reinvent ourselves again, Laporta built another legendary team. He did it twice, but somehow it was "luck".
And yes, I obviously know a Madrid fan is going to disagree about Barça's Pep being the best team to ever play the game.
Members come and go and old members saw Barcelona in more situations than both of us and yes they could be wrong too and make mistakes but bottom of the line is that Bartomeu is Barcelona president because the club members chose him so blame them for it and for listening to any type of media.
That's what I'm doing, I'm blaming them and I'm blaming the media that created the narrative the members followed. The narrative that ultimately has destroyed the club.
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