BarcelonaBarça has informed the RFEF that next season its first football team will play at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium. It is the preliminary step for the Spanish body to raise the decision to UEFA, the organizing body of the next Champions League, that the club will play next year if it does not receive a veto due to the investigation into the Negreira case. According to EFE, the entity chaired by Joan Laporta has already completed a procedure that is not normally news, but which in this case means that the comprehensive reform works of the Camp Nou will meet the planned schedule and, therefore, will begin this month June by Limak, the Turkish construction company that won the competition at the beginning of January.
The news comes when the Barça board has been meeting for three hours at the Camp Nou to mainly discuss the financing of the most important heritage project in its history. Although there are managers who are betting on slowing down the works or outright freezing them due to the current complicated financial situation, the most likely is that the president Joan Laporta, a firm supporter of raising the 1,500 million despite the fact that the club is not healthy and live through a severe reputational crisis due to the Negreira case, get the green light from the board to go ahead with the credit operation with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. The club’s intention is for the financing to be closed in three or five installments with an interest never higher than 6% and revised downward as the years pass and the Camp Nou, already renovated, responds to income expectations.
