Dear Billionaire, Please Buy FC Espanyol....

for some disruptive fun, a dash of posterity, and your own, personal Man City turnaround

Barcelona. Football. Més que un club. Yamal. El Clásico. If you’re an FC Espanyol fan, this must feel like a form of relentless torture. We’re here too, you cry. Lovely stadium. The light blue to their red.
Just no brand. No stars. And recently relegated. It doesn’t have to be this way. Where is our bored billionaire? The savvy one? The local hero?

Consider Espanyol as an undervalued asset: the second club in a city where everyone can support whoever they like—as long as it’s Barcelona. And as long as they’re willing to swallow a steady dose of Catalan nationalism with every performance. And the brand? Enough already. Even the Real Madrid merchandise hides.

But look even slightly beneath the surface, and the footballing identity of Catalonia—and of Barcelona itself—has two faces. One is Catalan, elite, symbolic. The other is working-class, Spanish-speaking, and made up of immigrants from across Spain and beyond. They live in the south, the outskirts, the neglected bits. They don’t vote for independence. Their love for football is immense—enough to tolerate weekly doses of politicised symbolism just to see the stars and feel the exhilaration.

Consider ...

• They’ve just been relegated—sigh—so they are, structurally and financially, as cheap as they’re ever going to be
• Espanyol has a 2009 UEFA Category 4 stadium, with excellent transport links.
• Nationally, La Liga remains open. The European qualification places aren’t locked down by a fixed cartel—unlike in the UK.
• Barcelona remains one of the few cities in Europe where top flight players and managers actually want to live.
• The potential for a proper, annual, ferocious Boca Juniors vs River Plate-style derby is real.

FC Espanyol is the 2025 version of Manchester City in 2005: only cheaper, and arguably with more upside. For less than the price of a mediocre media startup, or a mid-tier superyacht with fuel, you could own the only football club in Barcelona that hasn’t collapsed under the weight of its own mythology. For €100 million or less, you can turn your fun money into a billion-euro valuation and become a local legend. Whats not to like?

So contact me for further enthusiasm. Or perhaps let’s do it ourselves:
GoFundMe FC Espanyol.Ten million of us. Ten euros each.
Let’s buy the club and give this city the derby it deserves.