He Depor been enjoying for free or for a token amount of the use of Riazor since 1944, but Municipality of A Coruña It wants this situation to change and charge the club for the use of these municipal facilities, according to the A Coruña club, which rejects this new course head-on. “After months of unsuccessful technical meetings, on February 13 the mayoress informed me in an informal communication that the Municipality wants to charge the Royal Sports Club for the use of the stadium, something that had never happened to date in A Coruña“, advanced the president Antonio Couceiro before expressing the feeling of the entity. “If the assignment of the stadium were onerous for the Deporwill constitute a historical injustice for the Depor and unacceptable discrimination regarding the teams with which we have to compete.
He Deportivo is in the worst financial and sporting situation in its history and not only does it not receive Municipality, but that they intend to generate income”, he assured, while focusing the problem so that there is an understanding for a new agreement, beyond 2025. “We are told that the problem is that they do not want to give away the commercial name of the stadium for free, which does not make any town hall. He we It is one more asset of all the clubs, which collect income for them. It would be abnormal and would have a negative impact,” she said this morning.
He Depor He does not present, for the moment, any plan B and does not hide his “concern, but is committed to understanding. “I want to express my deep concern about this fact, which would mean increasing the losses that the Deportivo for being out of professional football and in the financially difficult years that are expected in the return to the elite. I hope that he reconsiders and that he give himself to the Deportivo the treatment that it has historically received and that the other clubs also receive”.
The mayor of A Coruña, Inés Reyhas affirmed today -in declarations to a local station- that it is a “lie” that the City hall want to charge the Deportivo for the use of the Riazor stadium. Rey explained that on November 4, 2021, the City Council sent the Deportivo an agreement proposal that, according to the councilor, at no time includes any claim to the club to pay for using the stadium. The mayor recalled that the Deportivo It is a club without its own stadium and uses a municipal facility for free. “And he will continue to use it for free,” he added. Ines Rey. “He does not pay anything, he is not going to pay anything, and at no time has it been included in that agreement that he has to pay,” says the councilor, who has publicly urged to the president of Deportivo to respond to that 2021 agreement proposal since, as stated, the club has not responded.
