OK, so here's how the story makes sense in my head.
Laporta wins the elections, talks to Leo, they agree he wants to stay and will work on a new contract. The new board starts looking at the finances of the club and get more horrified the more they look at them.
Laporta wins the elections, talks to Leo, they agree he wants to stay and will work on a new contract. The new board starts looking at the finances of the club and get more horrified the more they look at them.
The Superleague mess happens. Which means thag Barça are now allied with Madrid and Juve in this legal fight that will go on for years against UEFA and their national leagues. Not sure being allied with FloPer is a good thing in essence, but it is what it is.
Club still has no money, wage bill way over the limit even without Messi. They can't make the numbers work. Tebas says he'll try to help (this is me speculating that Tebas would try to take advantage of Barça's finances to get them on his side) and then shows up with the CVC deal
According to reports and to Tebas, Laporta was initially on board with this so that meant that Leo's contract could be registered. All was well. Jaume Roures, Mediapro boss and longtime Laporta ally also says that from what he knew on Tuesday the contract was OK'd by the league.
Then the CVC deal goes public and Madrid say here going to fight against it in court. Because it's a contract for 40 years it's kind of an assurance against the Superleague or at least I'm sure that's part of what Tebas wanted to achieve with it.
So... The board has a choice. It's not a good choice, but a choice none the less. Maybe long term the road they took is the better choice for the club. Can't know right now. Right now it's going to suck. For a few years.
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