Today, the members of FC Barcelona walk into polling stations to decide the future of the greatest football club on earth. It should not be a difficult decision. Joan Laporta must win. Not because he is perfect — he is far from it — but because the alternative is something that should terrify every Culé who cares about this club's immediate and long-term future.
Let us be honest about Laporta's record. The financial situation he inherited from Bartomeu was nothing short of catastrophic. A club drowning in debt, stripped of its greatest player, ridiculed across Europe. What Laporta did was use every tool available, the economic levers, the Spotify deal, the Nike renegotiation to stabilise the ship and rebuild. Critics call it reckless. Realists call it the only option. You do not rebuild a club of Barcelona's size by timidly cutting costs and hoping for the best. You invest, you back your sporting project, and you trust that the on-pitch product will generate the returns. That is exactly what happened. Hansi Flick arrived, transformed this team overnight, and Barcelona are now top of La Liga, one point clear of Real Madrid, playing the most breathtaking football in Europe.
And now, at the moment when everything Laporta built is bearing fruit, there are those who want to hand the keys to Víctor Font.
Font presents himself as a moderniser, a reformist, a man with a plan. But look closer and what you find is a candidate whose entire campaign rests on three things: criticising Laporta's financial decisions, promising to bring Messi back — a fantasy — and proposing a structural overhaul of a sporting department that is currently operating at the very highest level. Why would any rational Culé want to dismantle what is working?
The comparison to Bartomeu is not unfair. Bartomeu too came in promising modernisation, transparency, a new era. What followed was the destruction of the dressing room, the humiliation at Anfield and Lisbon, the departure of Messi, and a debt pile that nearly brought the club to its knees. Font is not Bartomeu — but his instinct to tear down and rebuild from scratch at a moment when stability and continuity are the most valuable commodities at the club is precisely the kind of thinking that got Barcelona into trouble in the first place.
The Spotify Camp Nou is nearly done. Flick has built something special. The academy is producing again — Lamine Yamal is the best young player on the planet. This is not the moment for an experiment. This is the moment to back what is working, consolidate the gains, and push on towards the Champions League and another Liga title.
Vote Laporta. Not out of blind loyalty, but out of cold, clear logic. This club has momentum, identity and direction. Font would put all three at risk — and Barcelona cannot afford to find out the hard way.