BarcelonaAfter two refusals in court, Barça tried to get the League to validate a double operation of 100 million euros to raise the salary limit and register Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor before New Year’s Eve, but they did not succeed. The payment guarantees required by the employers to approve the agreements did not arrive until January 3, with the footballers’ licenses expired in accordance with current regulations. The provisional solution to this dispute came with the very precautionary measure granted by the Higher Sports Council, which believes that Olmo and Víctor are exposed to irreparable consequences if they cannot play. This political establishment also calls into question the competence of the League-RFEF monitoring commission on this issue and the nature of the regulations. Therefore, in the absence of more chapters, the series is frozen until April 9 at most, even though Barça has returned to the famous 1:1 with the fair play financial –spend for the same value that is released– thanks to the aforementioned sale for 100 million of part of the seats vip of the future Camp Nou.
In his volcanic appearance this Tuesday, Joan Laporta did not give too many details about an operation that the club has not communicated in writing although the League has already recognized it. “It is a product that we have not invented. A Qatari fund has paid 30 million and another from the Arab Emirates 40% of 70 million (28),” said the culé leader, who insisted that Barça sent the agreement documents before New Year’s, but due to schedules and holidays, payments were not credited until January 3. Regarding the identity of the investors, there is no specific information other than the country of origin of the money: Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Of the first fund, unofficial sources assure ARA that it is FORTA Advisors, based in London, while the second is based in Dubai, an emirate in which Laporta himself and some of his collaborators have recently carried out private business. In Qatar, the president of Barça also traveled a few weeks ago with Manel del Río, the corporate director of the institution, as this newspaper explained. One of the reasons for the visit was to talk about that operation.
‘Personal seat license’
Del Río precisely intervened briefly in Laporta’s appearance to explain what the agreement is about. The Barça executive, replacement for Maribel Meléndez, spoke about a sale of 475 seats vip for 30 years in exchange for 100 million. This amount does not go, according to the official version, to account for the club’s future income, but rather is the fee that investors pay to resell these luxury seats in exchange for a margin. fix the League’s salary cap. Personal seat license It is the anglicism that is used to define this product of a future Camp Nou designed to squeeze the most privileged pockets. The club’s plan is not to pass the agreement through the assembly, but to explain it to the members with a report from the economic commission in which, due to confidentiality issues, there will not be the identity of the investors.
What Laporta cannot hide is that the seats vip They will be exploited by capital whose origin a few years ago gave reason to criticize the government work of Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu. The sponsorships of Qatar Foundation and Qatar Airways “stained”, according to their criteria in 2010 or 2015, the Barça shirt. Now, however, the Barça president observes “a certain openness” in these regimes that encourages him to do business for the entity.
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