Barça TV, the official television of FC Barcelona, has its days numbered. The Barça club has decided to end broadcasting at the end of the season, on June 30. The chain will close after 24 years on the air, as RAC1 announced this Thursday. The decision puts 120 workers, both employees and self-employed, on the street. Barça must drop ballast and try to cut costs as they are in a very delicate economic situation. The club will have to adapt to financial fair play if they are to face the signing of Messi for next season. The economic crisis has set off alarm bells for Barcelona, who fear the club will become a public company. The club’s president, Joan Laporta, denied it again on Thursday. The warnings have risen due to a survey that the Barcelona entity itself conducts among its partners. The poll is very varied, but one of the questions asks subscribers about their opinion of the real estate model. There are three options: stay the same, a limited company or a mixed system, such as Bayern Munich. Laporta won the election and said that as long as he is president, Barça will never become a public company, but the investigation has sparked all speculation. “We will continue to maintain the governance model where the partners are the owners more than ever,” Laporta said Thursday. The Barça leader presented the guidelines of how he intends to finance the so-called ‘Espai Barça’, a pharaonic work, which proposes to remodel Camp Nou, build a new Palau Blaugrana and redevelop the surrounding area and which will cost 1,450 million cost. by twenty investors, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. The financial operation is planned in three tranches. One third is paid over five years, the second over nine and one third over 24 years. It’s almost 100 million a year. With the new stadium, the entity expects an additional income of almost 250 million per year. “The Espai Barça is a guarantee and a shield for the club’s governance model,” said Laporta. The president of Barcelona goes from problem to problem. Very touched by the ‘Negreira case’, which has yet to be solved from a criminal and also a sporting point of view, depending on the decision of UEFA, the maximum leader culé has several open fronts, which outrage his fans. Next year, the team will play at the Montjuic stadium because of the works on Camp Nou. It has half the capacity of the Blaugrana Coliseum, so thousands of members will be without a seat. Specifically, only one in three will secure its location on the Olympic Mountain. In addition, the club plans to significantly increase subscriptions, because one way or another they have to pay for the works. A grandstand ticket will be about 35% more expensive. “The fertilizers are completely out of date compared to our competitors,” the directive has slipped.
Source: La Verdad
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