If it's not true, let someone come out and say it.

GironaThe City Football Group, Pere Guardiola, and Marcelo Claure, who rule Girona, have changed the club's history. And they've changed it for the better. They've made football a topic of conversation and have demonstrated their seriousness because, in bad times, they not only didn't abandon ship like rats do, but they actually doubled their bets, making capital increases that kept the ball rolling. When you take the full picture, this is an important chapter that can't be ignored, because if Girona returned to the First Division after relegation and won the lottery with the Champions League year, it's thanks to events like those.

Lately, however, something has broken. The biggest stain on this whole process is the lack of empathy for the fans, who haven't been properly cared for. They've been given a luxury product, true, but they've become a supporting actor. The Girona fans have been alienated from their club. Until now, the ball has hidden many things. But when it stopped coming in as often as we'd like, people started looking for someone to blame. And all eyes turned upward, toward the box. The fracture has been almost irreparable for months.

It is, among other things, due to the silence that has set in. No one speaks, no one says anything, no one communicates. Even the joint press conference between Quique Cárcel and Ignasi Mas-Bagà, sporting director and CEO, respectively, was postponed due to a health problem for the former about a month ago, and no new date has yet been set. This has had several consequences: people are even more fed up, because they associate it with neglect, and they think badly, as if no one is talking because they're hiding something. The players, in the locker room, are confused, angry, and disappointed: the more money the club has had, the worse the squad has become. And I'm not referring to bad players (that's another debate), but to an unbalanced and understaffed group. The other big loser is Míchel, who has enough work and is unnecessarily exposed by being used as a shield and improvised spokesperson.

The work in the offices hasn't been good. The gossip clearly points to Pere Guardiola, who juggles his duties as owner with those of player representative. But he's always done this, and it's benefited Girona many times. What's never happened before, considering the resources available (it's the tenth salary cap, not the last), is the stagnation this summer, in which all the players who couldn't be sold last year have been sold, and signings have been made late and infrequent.

If, in the final hours of closing the window, your first-choice center back (Krejci) and a key midfielder in recent years (Yangel Herrera) come in against the will of a Míchel who didn't want to lose them, and no one comes to replace them, and consequently, you create two irreparable holes until the next transfer window, in principle, it means: Business before football. And if not, let someone from those who truly command come out and tell it.