Barcelona team hardly comes out of a hole until it enters a tunnel, as things go from bad to worse in all levels, be it sports, administrative and financial.
After losing last season for the third time in a humiliating manner in the European Champions League, and the exit of Barca "zero titles", not to mention the crisis of the Argentine star Lionel Messi's request to leave the Catalan club, the former coach of the team, Quique Setien, announced today, Thursday, that they will sue the Blaugrana, for not He fulfilled the terms of the contract after their dismissal last month.
Also, Josep Maria Bartomeu, president and board of directors of the club, will face a vote of no-confidence, after more than 20,000 signatures were sought from club members on Thursday.
Setien said - through his Twitter account in a joint statement with his aides, Ider Sarabia, John Pasqua and Fran Soto - that he had only received a letter to terminate his contract on the 16th of this month after his dismissal on the 17th of last month.
He added that he had not received any compensation from the club a month after his dismissal.
The statement added that Setien's three assistants did not receive any compensation either, but instead they were offered a job at the club in the future.
Barcelona declined to comment.
Setien did not receive any compensation from the club a month after his dismissal (Reuters)
Setien, 61, took charge of Barcelona last January after the club sacked its coach Ernesto Valverde, but was sacked last month after ending the season without any titles and the team lost 8-2 to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the European Champions, in the worst loss for the team. The Catalan in the European competition.
And the statement continued, "After a month of total silence from Barcelona's board of directors, and after various demands from us, we did not receive any contact from the club until we received a message yesterday via the ProFax service (a service used in Spain to send documents urgently).
He pointed out that "this letter revealed the clear intention of the club not to comply with the contracts that we signed in January 2020."
The statement concluded, "Given all the above, we felt the need for our team of lawyers to find a solution to this dispute and take the necessary legal measures in order to preserve our rights and all that we had previously agreed upon with Barcelona."
On the issue of voting with a vote of no confidence for Bartomeu, a campaign called "More than One Proposal", supported by potential candidates for the club's presidency elections next year, needed at least 16,520 signatures before submitting it to the club.
If the proposal wins the approval of 66.5% of the club members, Bartomeu will be fired (Reuters)
If the signatures are validated by the club and the Catalan Football Association, Barcelona must hold a referendum on whether the council should be removed.
If the proposal wins the approval of 66.5% of the club's "150,000" members, Bartomeu and the council will be sacked before the elections, which are expected to take place next March.
Jordi Vary, the club's presidential candidate, made the proposal on the 26th of last month, following the attempt by Messi, captain of the team, to leave "Camp Nou".
"I think honestly, Bartomeu should resign today. I think the number of signatures is so great that we don't need to hold a referendum, which he's going to lose in a really bad way," Fari said.
"If there is a vote, then there is no doubt that we will win," said Varry.