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LAPORTA REVIEWS THE PRESENT OF BARÇA

Laporta reveals the 'real' price of the new Camp Nou and Deco's functions at Barça

Published New:3/07/2023 - 18:02h

Updated New:3/07/2023 - 18:02h

In an extensive interview with 'La Vanguardia', the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, has reviewed all the news about the club, with special mention of the works of the Spotify Camp Nou and the real price it will have

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Joan Laporta, president of the FC Barcelona, continues reviewing all the actuality of the club that chairs. This Monday, has conceded an extensive interview to 'The Avant-garde' in which it has desgranado all the Barcelona actuality, so much in what to the market of signings refers as to the work in the dispatches. From how they go the works of the remodeling of the Spotify Camp Nou until the functions of Deco in his new stage in the Barcelona group, the maximum mandator culé has happened magazine.

The works of the Camp Nou, in order

The Catalan has confessed that there is some nostalgia when seeing to the feudo barcelonista 'derrumbado' and in full reconstruction. They are many the moments that have lived there and is not simple, but neither will be it the next course, in which mudarán to Montjuïc: "Next year it will not be easy. We move us to a stadium that has the half of capacity that the Camp Nou. This will generate a reduction of the income but are working to compensate it", began saying.

In front of the bajón of income by ticketing, Laporta has explained that will look for to compensate it with new sponsorships because "the budget that have for next year in espónsores already have it covered in 95%. And we will be able to achieve more income", but does not have desvelado which type. This yes, think that "is working a lot with the Barça feminine because after winning the Champions is an attractive team for investors and sponsors".

The cost of the Camp Nou, doubts with the Palau...

Likewise, the president attacked the doubts that exist on the construction or no of the Palau Blaugrana: "All the world aroused a lot with the subject of the Palau, but go it to do by less than 200 million euros and goes to have 16.000 seats. It will be a Palau different and optimum so that there is an important activity regarding events and concerts. I can ensure that it goes in inside the operation of finance of 1.500 million euros that also includes the Camp Nou, the small Palau, the station of buses and the Campus Barça".

In this sense, stood out that the costs go to diminish. "I think that go to recess it presupuestado for the stadium and for the contingencies, in fact already is happening. We are very on to achieve recortar the 1.100 millions that said . I think that we go to be in 960 millions and probably in 930 if all goes well", insisting in that "the Palau think that it will not arrive to 200 millions. I say this because it is necessary to take into account that we sign some types of flexible interest in some stretches of the operation. This wants to say that we will be able to change these interests in function of if the market gives us some better prices".

Deco, the new Txiki Begiristain?

On the other hand, Joan Laporta has confirmed that during this month will announce the 'signing' official of Deco, the one who will assume some functions like the ones of Txiki Begiristain in his first stage. In concrete, signalled that "we will announce around the middle of July the entrance of Deco. It will exert the function of Txiki Begiristain in my first stage", whereas of his relation Pini Zahavi or Joge Mendes insisted in that "there is relation of does a lot of years and helped us. The majority of representatives want to be well with the Barça, with a relation of respect, am thinking also in Iván of the Crag. If there is some representative that was more belligerent, regarding the football does not produce . Sometimes it has been in other sports".