{"id":10105,"date":"2020-09-18T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=49554"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:15:52","slug":"vote-of-no-confidence-against-fc-barcelona-president-josep-bartomeu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/vote-of-no-confidence-against-fc-barcelona-president-josep-bartomeu\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote of No confidence against FC Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"artconfp\">Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu faces a vote of no confidence after club members on Thursday gathered enough signatures to force a referendum on his future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">20,687 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>No confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye Bartomeu? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gn0VOw16a4\">pic.twitter.com\/Gn0VOw16a4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/1306688250623524864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">Bartomeu would have to step down if two thirds of the votes are against him, and new elections would have to be scheduled. The vote would be held post verification of all the signatures by the club.<\/p>\n<p>Club captain and legend, Lionel Messi stated in an interview recently that he had no faith in the hierarchy of the club and had lost his confidence in the direction in which the club was heading towards. Messi also went on to claim that Bartomeu was aware about his desire to leave the club at the end of last season, however Bartomeu used the complicated details of the player\u2019s contract to block his move away from the club. The club captain accepted that he was aware of a scenario wherein he could enforce legal actions against the Club and it\u2019s President, however he would opt not to escalate the matter in that direction as he owes his entire fame and success to the Club, which he has supported since he was a little boy.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure on Bartomeu increased after the team\u2019s embarrassing 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, one of the worst in the club\u2019s history. The defeat prompted Bartomeu to announce big changes at the club .<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it is also being reported that senior players and members of the Barcelona squad have urged the Club President, Bartomeu to resign from his position as it would be in the best interest of everyone associated with the club from Catalonia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ud83d\udcfb @SiqueRodriguez: \u201cPlayers like Pique have asked Bartomeu to resign, some directives too after Bar\u00e7a-Gate, and now thousands of socios\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MocioFCB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MocioFCB<\/a> \u2716\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DzDsJ5yhFG\">pic.twitter.com\/DzDsJ5yhFG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blaugrana Planet (@BlaugranaPlanet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlaugranaPlanet\/status\/1306837347972132866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former coach Quique Seti\u00e9n, who was replaced by Ronald Koeman after the loss to Bayern, released a statement saying he planned to take legal action against the club owing to his unclear procedure of sacking from the job. He said it wasn\u2019t until Wednesday, the 15th of September that he was officially told that he was fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu faces a vote of no confidence after club members on Thursday gathered enough signatures to force\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":32613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[238,487],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-lionel-messi"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}