LAPORTA LOOKS FOR NEW REVENUES
Barça works to get a sponsor and new credit with Goldman Sachs
Published:15/01/2022 - 15:11h
Updated:15/01/2022 - 15:42h
The FC Barcelona board will try to close this month the signing of a new sponsor for the Blaugrana shirt, in addition to the credit for 1,500 million euros with Goldman Sachs to finance the 'Espai Barça'
The president of the FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, and his general director, Ferran Reverter, work to close sources of financiamiento for the next five seasons of the club. One of the priorities is the signature of the new sponsor for the T-shirt blaugrana, since the agreement with the Japanese company Rakuten finalises in June of this year, to the term of the present course.
Signed in 2017 by the previous managerial, the agreement with Rakuten closed by a total of 55 more variable millions by four years. However, the company reduced to 30 millions his contribution to the club product of the pandemia of the COVID-19, expanding the agreement by a year. This agreement is for finalising and Laporta does not want to arrive to June without sponsor confirmed for the 2022-2023.
The pretences of the directive aim to an agreement by at least four years in return of 60 million euros. Rakuten Already has given his refusal to equalise a figure that companies like FTX and Binance yes are had to negotiate. Reverter, CEO of the club, ensures that it put it is to invoice near of 1.500 million euros in the next five years, beginning by the sponsors of the T-shirt.
Precisely, 1.500 'kilos' are those that the Barça expects to obtain of Goldman Sachs, American bank that many warn could turn into owner of the institution. The financiamiento of Goldman will promote two of the main projects of Laporta for his management: Barça Studios and Espai Barça. The commercial and sportive future of the club depends, largely, of the success of these projects.
Sale and construction in sight
With Barça Studios, put it is to close the sale of a percentage of the audiovisual project (between 20 and 49%), always conserving the stock majority. Until 17 companies negotiate with the club, as it explained Laporta in the last Assembly of compromisarios, leaving clear that the aim is to convert to the subsidiary in a profitable producer for the institution.
By his part, the works of the Espai Barça would have to begin this same summer in the Camp Nou. The directive thinks that the team will be able to follow playing in the stadium in spite of the works, but no descartan a mudanza to Montjuïc in 2023. The total investment for the remodeling of the temple culé is estimated in 900 million euros.
