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The tremendously serious accusations made by Emili Rousaud, former vice-president of FC Barcelona, who stated, and I quote, "someone has tampered with the club's cash box" cannot be dealt with via the threat of a lawsuit by the board of directors. Josep Maria Bartomeu must show a minimum of dignity and either defend the current managers of the club or resign from office and call for immediate elections, without waiting for the end of the term, foreseen for the summer of 2021. Rousaud must also explain how long he has known about it and why he did not resign earlier.

The stench coming from the club’s cesspool cannot be covered up by a mere statement this time. Among other things, legal action will be taken, and we cannot rule out the involvement of the Public Prosecutor's Office, so active on other occasions.

Along Rousaud, another five directors have left in an arranged resignation. It has caused an uncontrolled explosion of the current board, which must incorporate new members to comply with the current statutes of the club. The current panorama could not be more desolate and sadder; and the future, if there is not a forceful regenerative movement, enormously pessimistic. The best football player in history has had the enormous misfortune of having the rudest board since times of Joan Gaspart sitting in the presidential box.

It is obvious that many things have gone wrong in recent times. Starting with a servile attitude towards power and an attempt to distance the club from its identity traits, adopted after the club changed its losing mentality: commitment to the youth academy, its own identity as a team, social commitment, Catalanism, “Cruyffism”, “Guardiolism”. Today everything is opaque, the club's best years are belittled and dissidents are persecuted. It has been 49 days since Bartomeu announced an audit to stop the blow of published information exposing the hiring of a company that used fake social media accounts to criticize players, club opponents, and several Catalan pro-independence leaders.

It was the beginning of the end. Since that day, everything has gone from bad to worse. Especially because when dirt is stirred, sooner or later it ends up staining everyone who was near.