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Just two weeks after Spain's championship triumph, on Tuesday Jordi Mones, who resigned from the club's board of directors, spoke out about Joan Laporta's dictatorship at the club.
Mones, who was responsible for medicine at the club, cited Joan Laporta's leadership methods as the reason for his resignation.
"In the board, you simply couldn't disagree with Joan Laporta," Mones told Spanish journalists on Wednesday. "Disagreement with the president's proposals was automatically seen as disloyalty to the club."
"Joan Laporta is no longer the man I knew a couple of years ago. I was loyal to our project, but now, since he changed everything, I decided to step down," he added.
Barça's vice president Sandro Rosell, who was one of the main people responsible for bringing Brazilian Ronaldinho to the club in 2003, recently expressed considering leaving the club at the end of June due to disagreements with J. Laporta.
The Spanish media speculates that the real reason for the disagreements between S. Rosell and J. Mones with J. Laporta is dissatisfaction with the influence of the former famous player and coach Johan Cruyff on Laporta's actions, even though the Dutchman is not even on the club's board.
J. Laporta won the Barcelona presidential elections in 2003, promising to buy England's national team captain David Beckham from Man Utd, but the latter chose the main Catalan rival Real Madrid. As compensation, Laporta then bought Ronaldinho from PSG.
