So Barcelona have their new president, Joan Laporta, who also happens to be their old president, and speculation is rife about what might happen next.
Scenarios range from total doom and gloom -- a billion-plus dollars of debt, Lionel Messi's expiring contract, a global pandemic devastating the football economy -- to a "What, me worry?" approach, as best exemplified by presidential candidate Toni Freixa, who had talked about signing Dortmund's Erling Haaland and PSG's Kylian Mbappe.
As often happens, reality is somewhere in the middle.