Carles Tusquets Trias de Bes

is the president of the Barcelona Management Commission.

But his command, accidental before the resignation en bloc of the board of directors of Josep Maria Bartomeu, will go beyond what the club's charter marks, which should not be more than calling elections and attending the necessary and essential acts for the club. maintenance of normal club activities.

"We can't just pay the bills."

So Tusquets, in addition to advancing that he intends to start conversations with the Generalitat so that the Barça presidential elections can be held on a date close to the Christmas holidays, he demanded that the footballers of the first team accept the proposed salary adjustment.

A negotiation that has a deadline of November 5.

The uncertainty regarding the holding of the presidential elections will be inevitable given the advance of the second wave of the pandemic, and given that around 110,000 members would be called to vote.

Bartomeu, in fact, resigned because he said he refused to hold a vote of no confidence in current sanitary conditions, something that the Generalitat rejected before demanding a state of alarm for Catalonia.

Tusquets aims to encourage voting by mail - electronic voting is not allowed in the Llei de l'Esport and neither is it allowed by the club's statutes - in addition to taking up part of those protocols drawn up for the motion, such as the venues spread throughout Catalonia and the rest of Spain, in addition to the fact that the vote can be carried out in more than one day.

In search of 300 million euros

Before, however, the Management Commission will have to resolve this "highly worrying situation" which, according to Tusquets, requires Barcelona to immediately save 300 million euros.

"We all love this club. The members are suffering with their jobs, their businesses. That is why I hope that all the personnel, sports and non-sports, will be up to the task. We evaluate that to balance the budget the effort must be around 300 millions".

The president of the Manager did not want to throw himself on the players: "The availability is good. Also that of

Leo Messi

and his representatives. I can guarantee it. In addition, we do not want to take money from anyone. But to accommodate what is due to a period in which you can pay more normally. Depending on the money you have, we can pay ".

But he warned: "I do not contemplate another possibility that is not an agreement. The club must defend itself to the end."

The highest wage bill in Europe

Despite the fact that Tusquets stressed that the entity's economic disaster has been caused by the pandemic - "no one could have foreseen this, it is no one's fault" - and that having the Camp Nou closed costs the entity 220 million euros per season, he did take the evidence: "We must not hide that Barcelona's wage bill is the highest in Europe. And the weight in our spending budget is 70%. It is a lot."

Defer payments and extend contract years.

That's what it's all about.

What if a new president wanted to go back to resume the situation before adaptation?

"Well, a man loaded with tickets would have to come and undo the agreement. Naturally, everything will be reversible. But let's see how they do it," Tusquets stirred, who also clarified that if the Manager continues to command the club in the next winter signings could undertake signings.

But with two clear conditions: "If it is sold, it can be bought. Whoever comes with the freedom letter in their pocket can also come."

In addition, the Chairman of the Manager assured that, as will happen with commercial contracts that may be signed in the coming weeks, clauses will be included that allow their cancellation by the future board of directors.

Tusquets denied that Barcelona is on the verge of bankruptcy.

But he returned to the same thing: "Everything worsens every day that we cannot open the stadium, without stores, with the sponsors negotiating downwards ... It is a situation, I do not want to say dramatic, but highly worrying. If this does not come message, we will have it difficult. "

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