BARCELONA – Toni Freixa, candidate in the Barcelona elections to be held next Sunday, has set for this Thursday his last, for the time being, coup: announcing “very advanced” negotiations with an investment fund based in Hong Kong that will provide the club with $ 72 million per season, starting in 2022, to sponsor the first team shirt.
This agreement, which Freixa assured “will be closed soon”, is in addition to what he announced, in particular, in recent weeks with a multinational that will pay $ 300 million to take over 49 percent of the control of Barça Corporate and that the same candidate detached from what has been speculated could have been negotiated by the management board for the same amount. “It has nothing to do. I don’t know if the club’s managers have an agreement with anyone; we do,” he said, showing a document with the contract.
“We have very advanced conversations with a sponsor for the shirt from the 2022-23 season and for five years for 60 million euros per year ($ 72 million), which is currently the highest sponsorship in the world of football “explained Freixa, discovering that the company concerned” is an investment fund based in Hong Kong and presence in Silicon Valley that offers us an agreement in which it does not ask for exclusivity, so we can keep advertising up your sleeve “.
The candidate also revealed that the agreement would only cause Barcelona to display the company’s advertising on the shirt in matches played outside the Camp Nou. “He understands the meaning of Barça and would free us from carrying advertising at parties as a venue,” he proclaimed, confirming that the company, ‘Hong Kong DSDAQ’, is a digital asset platform (cryptocurrency).
In the midst of the accelerated end of the campaign, Freixa launched a direct challenge to his opponents, Joan Laporta and Víctor Font, assuring that these contracts “which will mean so much money to the club” would be made available to the winning candidate on Sunday in case of not be him. “I don’t think we’re going to win … But, of course, in the event of another candidate being the winner, we will put at his disposal all the agreements we have reached. The club’s interest is above all and I would like to hear a similar message from them … If they have any kind of agreement of this kind, because I don’t know, “he resolved.
Complaining about the media contempt that, he denounced, has suffered for much of the Spanish media during the campaign, the candidate of ‘Fidels a el Barça’ warned that “the members are watching the campaign unfold and do not understand many of the things Today, for example, I heard an interview with a candidate on a public broadcaster in which he is only asked about another candidate … for them we do not exist, nor are they mentioned to us because there are media speakers interested in focusing on them. they are only in two candidacies. The partners see it, they realize what is happening and they do not let themselves be deceived “.
Making it clear that he is out of the game or inferior to Laporta i Font, Freixa revealed that he has also talked to Jordi Cruyff “but we are respectful”. “Of course we spoke to Jordi, as to all the relevant people who have been used during the campaign. We have not used his name, as others do, because his figure deserves respect.”
Referring to election day, the candidate said that his “is both the useful and necessary vote. First because we are the only independents, we have no favors to anyone, and second because we are the only ones we have explained in depth our program. We are neither the candidate who is hiding waiting for them to campaign for him nor what every two to three has to rectify himself. “
And finally, he did not miss the opportunity to refer to the arrests of Bartomeu and Masferrer on Monday, considering that everything was “a performance that pursued a purpose. I do not judge the facts or distrust of justice, nor of the presumption of innocence. but that this has come out now, in the middle of the campaign … There is a perverse environment that wants to point me to as a continuum, but the partner cannot be deceived “.