The Super League project is destroying Barcelona
Colonel Trautman, hiding in a trench with John Rambo, is not sure. The Russian army is advancing towards them and asking them to surrender. The military veteran pulls out his last card, to ask his friend: "Can you think of anything? The answer is cinema history: "We can surround them". The scene, from 'Rambo III', serves as a perfect metaphor to describe the moment Barça is going through.
Attacked by land, sea and air, the club has opted to accept hand-to-hand combat. The problem is that neither Laporta is Rambo nor Yuste is Trautman, nor, of course, do the club's problems come from the mind of a scriptwriter, however much on Twitter someone disguises himself as a soldier.
Barça is going through a moment of extreme weakness and, in cases like this, diplomacy is the only way out because those who manage the club must be very clear that they are not going to win this war, but it is in their hands not to lose it. To do so, they must first take off their empire shirt, tie it to a stick and wave the white flag. The time has come to use the only card that Laporta has left and it goes by the name of Super League. This phantom competition led by Florentino Pérez has so far only served to create enemies and generate a giant mountain of problems that are difficult to solve. Paradoxically, Barça's current position can be transformed into an ace that, if played well, can be a winner.
Ceferin, through an explicit message, showed the path that UEFA is about to take regarding the Negreira case: "One of the most serious situations I have seen in football today". Being left out of the Champions League would be a drama with unforeseeable consequences and Barça cannot continue to be ensconced in the search of greed, by defending the Super League. Nobody and nothing is above the club and the time has come to think about it. This means dialling Ceferin's phone number and offering him what he is crying out for: the corpse of a competition that does not exist today. This gesture would also help to loosen the relationship with Javier Tebas and his obsessive control over the wage bill of the squad.
To chain oneself to Florentino Pérez, especially after his betrayal in the Negreira case, is incomprehensible. Barça owes him nothing and (the opposite would be an unprecedented scandal) neither do its leaders. Laporta has an easy out to put an end to this war that is destroying the club; fleeing the Super League is urgent and unavoidable.
