Massive debts, a stadium in need of renovation and Messi’s future will be in the in-tray for the
Catalan giants’ next leader
The last time
Barcelona played at the Camp Nou, three men sat together in the directors’ box; by the time they next play there, only one of them will be left. Last Wednesday, Victor Font, Joan Laporta and Toni Freixa were invited by the interim president, Carles Tusquets, to watch the Copa del Rey semi-final second leg against Sevilla. On Sunday, those three men aspire to be elected in his place when almost 90,000 members of the club finally go to the polls.
Elections were called after the former president Josep Maria Bartomeu was forced to resign in October. They close a week that began with
police raiding the Camp Nou and Bartomeu spending Monday night in a
prison cell in Les Corts, interrogated as part of an investigation into alleged corruption relating to the hiring of a
Social Media company accused of defending him and defaming opposition figures and even players.