When Elena Fortspokesperson for the board of John Laportahe was asked this Monday for new information about the contracting of the construction company that will remodel the Camp Nou received the prompt protection of the communication department. That was not part of that appearance, she told herself, summoned to talk about the news in the access protocol to the Estadi. Curiously, Xavi Hernandez he must daily confront questions that exceed his competences without anyone limiting the theme.
It so happens that Fort is also the board responsible for the Barça space since the resignation of Jordi Llauradoproduced two days after the name of the Turkish company appeared in Barca life Limak Holding. Llauradó is the only builder on the board, but he did not vote and withdrew without knowing why.
Barcelona statement
The club waited for the afternoon to issue a statement correcting information from The confidential in which it was explained that the Barça relaxed the conditions of the Estadi work to favor Limak and that he did not have to go through the prequalification requirements to which other applicants who had been working on the project since 2017 were subjected: the group formed by Ferrovial and Acciona, on the one hand, and FFC together with Comsa, on the other. Limak would have been the only company invited on September 1, 2022, when the new bidding conditions were delivered to all the contenders.
They no longer included, as it did in the 2017 specifications, the obligation to have built a stadium for a minimum of 40,000 seats and two buildings in Spain in the last decade with a budget of at least 150 million. Limak did not meet either of the two conditions in the new specification.
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The club’s statement denied that only Limak was invited to participate in the contest. The French company Vinci was also cited “to increase the competitiveness of the process.” He also denied that Limak was spared all the demands of the prequalification phase. “The requirements were not only technical capacity, but also economic,” read the Barca note. It was Barça’s second statement of clarification or denial in a few days regarding information regarding the hiring of Limak, which has generated all kinds of suspicions in Barcelona since day one.
In his appearance on January 9, when the Turkish company was announced as the surprising winner of the contest, Fort explained that Limak guaranteed the cost of 900 million euros approved by the Assembly of Commitments and the deadlines desired by the board: to be able to return to play at the Estadi before November 29, 2024, coinciding with the 125th anniversary of the club, and that the work is complete in the summer of 2026. Days later, Rac1 revealed that for each day of delay, Limak must pay one million euros to the Barça in the form of a penalty. It’s up to Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to find the backers. They have been at it for months.
