Having survived an attempt to unseat him earlier in the year, the Blaugrana chief is now set on revenge against his alleged ousters
Bartomeu, who has been in charge of the Spanish giants since July 2015, has found his position under severe pressure this season following a series of errors.
The president’s perceived mishandling of the situation around coach Ernesto Valverde and his abrupt sacking in January without a replacement lined up was followed by the club’s failure to strengthen in the same transfer period, with Barca forced to exploit a Liga loophole in order to sign Martin Braithwaite from Leganes after the window had shut when Ousmane Dembele suffered injury.
An embarrassing, mysterious scandal over the alleged use of social media companies to sully Barca’s own players followed, while most recently Lionel Messi slammed the board for suggesting that the Catalan squad was not willing to take a 70 per cent pay reduction during the coronavirus pandemic.
Such mistakes have seen critical voices to Bartomeu’s administration grow on the Blaugrana board; now the president is set to respond by removing those detractors.