Laporta hopes to achieve between 30 and 40 million a year for the Camp Nou surname

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  • “Espai Barça is the most important project in southern Europe in recent years. It will change the city,” announces the manager

Some 105,000 members with voting rights will determine on December 19 the future of the Barça space, a project that, according to Joan Laporta in TV-3’s’ Els Matins, “it will change the city. It will become the largest entertainment center within a European city.”

Laporta went to the set of Catalan television to sell the need to approve Espai Barça, but addressed other issues of current affairs in Barcelona. “You have to reform the Stadium. It falls apart. We are plugging holes and it costs us money. If there was a negative we would go to pieces. It is not what corresponds to a club like Barça and the members understand it. We’re late, “he said.” In 2010 we had approved a project (that of Norman Foster) and now we want to finish it “.

For Laporta, it is the “most important project in southern Europe in recent years”. Of course, Goldman Sachs is ahead in the negotiation to take over the financing of 1,500 million, which will be returned with the extra income generated in the new Camp Nou.

“We have to reform the State. We are falling apart”

Laporta, president of Barça

Goldman Sachs it has an advantage, “we have a history with them,” but it is not the only group interested in joining the project, he said. “There will be a monitoring commission and the partners will be promptly informed to what each euro is destined”.

“If due to force majeure such as covid, the deadlines are not met, the return of the loan will be delayed. It is in the fine print,” he said to make it clear that they have finalized all the details of the financing agreement.

“We want between 30 and 40 million per season for the Camp Nou name. If it’s 10 years, it would be 300 years”

Laporta, president of Barça

Laporta also spoke of Camp Nou surname, the calls ‘naming rights‘. According to the president of Barça, there have been a minimum of five offers. “We want between 30 and 40 million per season. If it’s 10 years, it would be 300 years.” To avoid that the figure is outdated, the agreement will be for a short period of 10 years and not the 20 or 30 that the previous board managed.

Agreement for the t-shirt

It is not the only agreement that the club hopes to announce shortly. “Before the end of the year we want to close the sponsor of the shirt. It has to be before the end of the year because Rakuten ends and Nike needs time to make the shirts. There are other companies that are offering more than Rakuten,” he said.

“Before the end of the year we want to close the sponsor of the shirt. There are other companies that are offering more than Rakuten”

Laporta, president of Barça

In this sense, Laporta indicated that investors have knocked on Barça’s door again. “In summer we do notice that there are investors who back down. And we think: ‘look, the Messi effect we’ve always talked about.’ But now we notice that post-Messi Barça is also attractive.”

The president wanted to clarify the controversy that was generated with the Argentine star about the fact that he had suggested playing for free while waiting for Barça to solve their financial problems.

“But I never asked Messi to play for free and in that Messi is right. In any case, he had to get out of him, not me”

Laporta, president of Barça

“I want to clarify it. In a radio program they told me: If Messi had stayed free? Free … I also don’t know if it could be possible, but I understand that it was. And for a moment I said, well it could have been,” said the Barcelona leader.

“But I never asked Messi to play for free and in that Messi is right because, apart from that, he is the best player in the world. We knew he had an important proposal and it was absurd. In any case, it had to come out of him, not me. . I never said it and a controversy has formed that is falsified in the origin “, has said Laporta.

“I am a fan of Ousmane, for me he is better than Mbappé”.

Joan Laporta, president of Barça

Laporta remarked that “ethical principles are inalienable” when selecting brands to associate with Barça. Even so, the president had to answer for the trip to Saudi Arabia on December 14 for a tribute to Maradona. “Through the Foundation we have programs to try to make them aware that there are principles of gender equality rights.”

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On the sports field, he pointed out that the signing of the doctor Plum it’s already closed. And about DembeleHe assured that “he wants to stay and I know it because we have a very good relationship with him and he is a piece of player, but he has some representatives that I know want the best for the player but I want to make them understand that the best thing is not money. I am an Ousmane enthusiast, for me it’s better than Mbappé“.

“We have no salary margin now to be able to sign”

Xavi has asked for reinforcements for the winter market. And Barça is working on the search for those players who will strengthen the squad. But it is not easy at all, as President Joan Laporta himself has recognized. “We will try to reinforce the squad if the coach requests it,” said the manager. “And Xavi has asked us, but we do not have a salary margin at the moment. If we do not have it, we cannot sign. We must let the football director work,” added Laporta about the steps being taken by Mateu Alemany.



Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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