Joan Laporta asks for confidence to "compete with club-states"

This Thursday has celebrated the Extraordinary General Assembly of the FC Barcelona in which the club has asked the permission of the partners for the sale of 49,9% of BLM (Barça Licensing & Merchandising) and the cession of maximum 25% of the television rights. The president of the club, Joan Laporta, has explained in his speech and interventions that are two vital operations for the future to short and average term of the Barcelona entity.

In his speech, the maximum Barcelona mandator explained that "when we arrive find us an economic situation very complicated. We could not pay the payrolls of May. The investors demanded us the payment of 200 million euros that did not have . We were a terminal patient and today would speak that the Barça is a monoplaza of F-1 that find us without petrol and with the engine gripado".

Likewise, it stood out that they initiated the economic recovery of the club and "with this work achieve to start the car. But the car did not film. And we think that the partners did not have to contribute to solve, but we think in the crowbars, from the active of the club", aiming, as whenever "the aim prioritario is that the Barça keep on being property of the partners. While I was president the Barça always will be property of his partners".

Laporta Has done upsetting in that it wants a strong Barcelona and that "it can compete with the clubs-state and with the clubs that have a multimillionaire like owner. We want to generate enthusiasm to go back to compete in conditions of equality", sentencing that "espués of the time that carry working the members of the board, thanks to the work of the employees of the club, the club is an alive entity and has an enormous power to attract capital. It is a club that has an extraordinary strength to generate income".

The numbers of the operation

Regarding the sale of 49,9% of BLM, the Barcelona president stood out that the total of the company has been valued in 700 million euros, and that the offers that have arrived rondan the 200-300 'kilos': "Have several proposals and the assessment that has done of all the company think that it is of 700 million euros. There are discussions, because there are investors that think that is inferior this assessment. It will be an important investment that will help us to grow. The offers that have rondarán the 200 or 300 million euros. They will give us vitamins to run more. We have refused important offers, because the investor wanted to go in too much to control the business. We think that has to be the club the one who control it".