20:44Laporta suspends the Assembly before the Barça-Valencia match without voting on the Espai Barça point or the reform of the statutes.
20:43The assembly is over and the remaining points will be voted on in a second part of the assembly.
20:42“It does not bother me to hold referendums. The statutes mark that they go through the Assembly. And this is the authorization for the loan that will be an investment and that will be returned with the additional income.”
20:41“It is not that there is a rush, it is that we are already late. We have to make a reform and I ask that this board with the criteria that the economic commission has said, acting with maximum prudence, we do not create any hypothetical or on club assets or management With these conditions were the red lines. We will meet again in a few days and we would end this item on the agenda and those that remain. “
20:39Laporta begins to answer: “We all love each other for Barça. If we do not all agree, we could for another day and approve the remaining points.”
20:04Question time begins for this point.
20:01The economic commission also makes an assessment of the economic and financial situation of the operation
19:57Fort: “We have to make this leap in quality. We are not spending, we are investing in our future. Investing to grow as an entity. Today we vote for Barça and be faithful to our history”
19:54Elena Fort: “Espai Barça is essential. We have improved the project and the most important urban campus in the world that will not compromise the club’s competitiveness. The club has always been brave. At this time in our history, FC Barcelona requires facilities of its history and the Camp Nou need this profound reform and we cannot be left behind. Espai Barça is the most transcendent challenge and the most relevant decision for the future. “
19:52The schedule of the works: They would begin at the end of this season and would end in 2025. In 2024 the Palau blaugrana would begin and in 2025 the works of the Campus would begin
19:51“In recent years, Barça has not invested. And that is becoming impoverished. This is a brave and forward-looking bet. In the medium and long term”
19:49“We asked for a loan of 1500 million, for 35 years. The first 5 years are of construction and we would not start paying until we have the new stadium. 5 years of grace with a market interest rate.”
19:47How the new stadium will be financed: “The works will not cost the members money. Sports management will never be put at risk, on the contrary, it will generate income that will make us more competitive. The club’s assets will never be mortgaged as collateral.”
19:46Reverter says that they have requested a report to see what has happened to football clubs that have improved their stadium. “Arsenal generated 110 percent, Allianz 60%, OL and Tottenham are 200%. Our forecast is 67% so we think it is a very realistic figure.”
19:44Reverter: “We will pay it with the additional income from the new boxes and VIP, with 8 percent, six more than the current one. Another opportunity will be the sponsorships, new shows and concerts and the Naming rights and finally additional income, fundamentally in the campus that will be mainly restoration. All this is about 200 million euros per year “.
19:43The CEO will explain how much Espai Barça will cost. “We have calculated around 1,500 million euros. 900 million for the stadium, which we will expand to 105,000 spectators. When stadiums pass 60,000 spectators they become very expensive. The New Palau Blaugrana will be worth 420 million euros with 15,000 seats with 7,000 people in the arena for concerts. The small Palau and the ice rink and the bus station also enter this item. The urbanization of the campus will cost 100 million, 60 million investments for the metropolitan plan and the Johan Cruyff Stadium, 20 million “
19:39Turn for him
CEO, Ferran Reverter
19:39Elena Fort: “We corrected the budget to adapt it to reality, we prevented 12,500 first tier subscribers from going to Third tier. We improved security”
19:38Elena Fort: “The previous meeting was already rethinking the capacity, because with only 10,000 attendees it was not even possible to host a Euroleague final”
19:34Elena Fort: “Modifying the project also allows us to improve the visibility, accessibility and comfort of subscribers. It was also important to reduce risks. Create a campus that is a benchmark in sustainability. Video Wolrd technology, throughout the ring, 5G in the stadium and Wi-Fi throughout the Espai Barça … The initial project did not have planned the technology in the stadium and there is a differential of more than 150 million euros “
19:30Elena Fort: “The previous project, as it was planned, involved the transfer of 12,500 subscribers from First and Second Grader to Third and that red line we were not willing to transfer, we know what our subscription means for each one of us. They placed all the VIP areas in the First Tier and made access to the First Tier by going down and then back up. Now we would demolish the third tier, and gain more Hospitality spaces, therefore, more possibility of income “
19:27Elena Fort: “Reality is what it is. We do an exercise of absolute transparency, it is what it will cost us and for this we ask it of you. The Palau Sant Jordi, made for the Olympics, cost 200 million, the Wizink Center cost 300, the Arena of Valencia, which has not yet been inaugurated, has cost almost 300 million “.
19:25Elena Fort: “From the beginning the cost of Espai Barça is absolutely underestimated making a comparison with the other stadiums”
19:23Elena Fort: “The Palau does not comply with any of the European regulations, moratoriums are useful, but they sanction us periodically. Espai Barça will allow us better sponsors and sponsors. We will increase the spaces for hospitality and catering to boost our income. Not now we could not even host a 2030 World Cup match if it is in Spain. Espai Barça is capital for the club’s economic recovery. We fight against other club structures that we don’t want – state clubs – and we need to be competitive “
19:20Elena Fort: “We have outdated accesses, only 15 elevators, no new stairs, only 28% of the seats are covered, we have obsolete technology”
19:18Elena Fort: “In Spain, we only have to remodel the stadium, Valencia and ourselves. The Camp Nou is 64 years old, we have grown older. This summer we completed 900 pathologies, worth 1.8 million euros, to be able to return to open to the public “
19:16Elena Fort: “In the year 57 we inaugurated the Camp Nou that made us a world reference, but this field has grown older for us, as we all grow older. We accumulated a delay of more than 15 years. In 2003, the Board of Jan Laporta it has already begun to rethink. In 207 Norman Foster’s project was approved, in 2010, the new board parked it. In 2014 Espai Barça was approved by referendum “
19:12Appears the
vice president of the
FC Barcelona, Elena Fort
19:09Shift of
4 point of order of the day, related to the
Espai Barça and the approval or not of the corresponding financing.
19:06Result of the vote for the
approval of the economic budget 2021-22:
Yes: 643
No: 17
Blank: 23
19:01Josep Cubells, secretary of the board, points out that there are
766 Accredited compromisers and
701 present to vote on the third point of the day, where the
financial budget for fiscal year 2021-22.
18:59Laporta: “We are confident of achieving the challenges that the President of the Economic Commission proposed to us. They have a point of ambition, yes, but we do it from transparency. You already know that these budgets that we propose have to have a positive result. I would ask them to approve these budgets that will allow us to fix things “
18:57Romeu: “In the salary reduction there is a mix, a part of reduction and another of postponements”
18:56Romeu: “If Espai Barça is approved, the Camp Nou works would begin this summer”
18:55Shift for the economic vice president,
Eduard Romeu: “We propose a positive Ebidta for the reopening of the Stadium and for the reduction of the salary cost. This will allow us to have less debts and reverse the assets”
18:54Laporta: “The presence of a tourist comes either because of the free Seient or because a member has left the card. We know that 20% neither come nor release, so the club only benefits from the payment of the subscription but they do not give game to draw more benefit “
18:53Joan Laporta, on the proposal of the former
President Gaspart: “Thank you for your intervention”
18:46Intervention shift for CompromisariosThe first to appear is the former president of the
FC Barcelona Joan Gaspart, members number 1,258 of Barça. “I want to make a request to the Assembly and first I ask for forgiveness. If we can save the speeches and give our minutes to Vice President Elena so that she can present the Espai Barça project to us, taking into account that at 21 hours we have a commitment, I would appreciate it “.
18:41The secretary of the
Council,
Josep …