Barcelona presidential candidates Agustí Benedito, Jaume Ferrer, Marc Ingla and Sandro Rosell held the first presidential debate on Catalan radio station Catalunya Ràdio.
Sports area
Ingla (against Rosell): "You won't even call Txiki when you are appointed, so tell the people what you really want."
Rosell: "We can't reveal our plan because that would make it more expensive."
Ingla: "Why don't you explain your business in Brasil? Maybe there's nothing wrong but the member at least has the right to get informed."
Rosell: "I will sell my businesses I have related to the world of sports if I'm elected as president."
Rosell: "There haven't been enough players promoted to the first team over the last years. Only Pedro and Jeffren, who I bought with Busquets. We should work better with the youth academy."
Benedito: "Txiki won't continue, his time is over."
Rosell: "Cruyff wanted to sign the triple A of Valencia: Albelda, Aimar and Ayala."
Ingla: "This Barça is build by Cruyff, Txiki, Rijkaard and Pep. The project of Rosell will break with all that. He will bring his own people in."
Ferrer: "Ingla wasn't there when we won the six cups, so it's strange he now claims those successes."
Benedito and Rosell: "No one will change the sporting model, it's working."
Economic area
Rosell: "There are too many expenses and some aren't clear."
Ingla: "Economically, Barça is better than ever. And we want to double the budget in the next six years. We want to open embassies, we want to go out in the world."
Benedito: "We have more revenues but the expenses have also risen."
Ingla: "We're a sporting club, we shouldn't make profits."
Catalan identity and legacy of Laporta
Rosell, Ingla and Benedito: "Oliver won't continue."
Ingla: "I've included the Catalan flag in the shirt."
Ingla: "We want an open club, Rosell wants to close the club to some families."
Benedito: "Laporta has done good things but also bad things. We shouldn't have relations with the Uzbek mafia."
Ferrer: "Barça didn't have a contract with Uzbekistan, but with an Uzbek club to play a friendly game."
Rosell: "40.000 people of Siberia could become club member and decide who will be the new president. We don't want to lose the Catalan identity of the club. We need to regulate the members."
Benedito: "The club member without season-tickets should get a discount of 50% for the tickets."
Ingla: "We want an open club."
Ferrer: "The number of members should be limited. We want another system so the people can be linked to the club in another way."
Ingla: "It's sad Rosell has made photos with factions of the Boixos Nois hooligans."
Rosell: "We want zero violence at the stadium."
Benedito: "The Boixos Nois are supporting Rosell, they are shouting 'Rosell president'. In meetings of Rosell with fan groups there have been representatives of the violent groups."
Ingla: "We need youth academies all over the world."
Rosell: "We should not have own youth academies but control the players through agreements."
Ferrer: "We have our academy in Argentina and it's working."
Conclusion
Ferrer: "What is working shouldn't be touched."
Benedito: "We are the alternative."
Ingla: "We have the best project, we're the guarantee that this model will continue. We've done a lot but there's a lot of work to do."
Rosell: "We know what the member want after a lot of meetings."
Sports area
Ingla (against Rosell): "You won't even call Txiki when you are appointed, so tell the people what you really want."
Rosell: "We can't reveal our plan because that would make it more expensive."
Ingla: "Why don't you explain your business in Brasil? Maybe there's nothing wrong but the member at least has the right to get informed."
Rosell: "I will sell my businesses I have related to the world of sports if I'm elected as president."
Rosell: "There haven't been enough players promoted to the first team over the last years. Only Pedro and Jeffren, who I bought with Busquets. We should work better with the youth academy."
Benedito: "Txiki won't continue, his time is over."
Rosell: "Cruyff wanted to sign the triple A of Valencia: Albelda, Aimar and Ayala."
Ingla: "This Barça is build by Cruyff, Txiki, Rijkaard and Pep. The project of Rosell will break with all that. He will bring his own people in."
Ferrer: "Ingla wasn't there when we won the six cups, so it's strange he now claims those successes."
Benedito and Rosell: "No one will change the sporting model, it's working."
Economic area
Rosell: "There are too many expenses and some aren't clear."
Ingla: "Economically, Barça is better than ever. And we want to double the budget in the next six years. We want to open embassies, we want to go out in the world."
Benedito: "We have more revenues but the expenses have also risen."
Ingla: "We're a sporting club, we shouldn't make profits."
Catalan identity and legacy of Laporta
Rosell, Ingla and Benedito: "Oliver won't continue."
Ingla: "I've included the Catalan flag in the shirt."
Ingla: "We want an open club, Rosell wants to close the club to some families."
Benedito: "Laporta has done good things but also bad things. We shouldn't have relations with the Uzbek mafia."
Ferrer: "Barça didn't have a contract with Uzbekistan, but with an Uzbek club to play a friendly game."
Rosell: "40.000 people of Siberia could become club member and decide who will be the new president. We don't want to lose the Catalan identity of the club. We need to regulate the members."
Benedito: "The club member without season-tickets should get a discount of 50% for the tickets."
Ingla: "We want an open club."
Ferrer: "The number of members should be limited. We want another system so the people can be linked to the club in another way."
Ingla: "It's sad Rosell has made photos with factions of the Boixos Nois hooligans."
Rosell: "We want zero violence at the stadium."
Benedito: "The Boixos Nois are supporting Rosell, they are shouting 'Rosell president'. In meetings of Rosell with fan groups there have been representatives of the violent groups."
Ingla: "We need youth academies all over the world."
Rosell: "We should not have own youth academies but control the players through agreements."
Ferrer: "We have our academy in Argentina and it's working."
Conclusion
Ferrer: "What is working shouldn't be touched."
Benedito: "We are the alternative."
Ingla: "We have the best project, we're the guarantee that this model will continue. We've done a lot but there's a lot of work to do."
Rosell: "We know what the member want after a lot of meetings."
