Barcelona Former president won't sign it

Guardiola: Laporta was like a ray of sunshine

On Friday morning, the insurance company Zurich and 11 former Barcelona directors from when Joan Laporta's was president, have signed a pact for the Accountability Action which placed the club against them concerning losses derived from his last year at the helm.

Under this agreement, said former directors are exempt from any crime and will not have to pay any money even if the judge's ruling, which will take place on January 12, was against Laporta.

In addition, Zurich is committed to pay a sum of money ranging from 2.5 to 5 million euros, as compensation for those losses.

Laporta and five other executives (Bagues, Yuste, Macia, Sala Martin and Elena Fort) have decided not to sign the pact.

If the courts finally (either next January or at a later appeal to the Supreme Court) rule against the former president, the Directive undertakes to hold only those five persons who have not signed the pact responsible.