BARCELONA – Toni Freixa, a candidate in next Sunday’s Barcelona elections, has saved his latest coup for Thursday: announcing “very advanced” negotiations with a Hong Kong-based investment fund that will contribute 72 million dollars to the Barça club per season, starting with 2022, for sponsoring the first team jersey.
This agreement, which Freixa has assured “will be closed soon”, is in addition to the one already announced, finalized in recent weeks with a multinational that will pay 300 million dollars to take control of 49% of Barça Corporate and that the company itself, the candidate seconded by the speculator, could have negotiated the board of directors for the same amount. “It has nothing to do with it. I don’t know if the club’s managers have an agreement with anyone; we have,” he said, pointing to a document with the contract.
“We have very advanced conversations with a shirt sponsor starting in the 2022-23 season and for five years for 60 million euros per year ($ 72 million), which today is the largest sponsorship in the world of football.” Freixa explained, discovering that the interested company “is an investment fund based in Hong Kong and with a presence in Silicon Valley that offers us an agreement in which it does not require exclusivity, so that we can continue to advertise.”
The candidate also revealed that the mentioned agreement will determine Barcelona to wear the advertising of the advertising company on the shirt in the matches played outside the Camp Nou. “He understands the significance of Barça and would free us from advertising at home matches,” he proclaimed, confirming that the company, “Hong Kong DSDAQ”, is a platform for digital assets (cryptocurrencies).
At the end of the campaign, Freixa launched a direct challenge for his opponents, Joan Laporta and Víctor Font, assuring that those contracts “that will mean so much money for the club” would be made available to the winning candidate on Sunday if he were not. “I don’t think we will win … But, of course, if another candidate is the winner, we will make all the agreements we have reached available to him. The interest of the club is above all and I would like to hear a similar message from they … If they have some kind of agreement of this type, because I don’t know “, he solved.
Complaining about the contempt of the media, which he denounced, a large part of the Spanish media suffered during the campaign, the candidate “Fidels of Barça” warned that “the partners are watching the campaign and do not understand many of the things that Today, for example, I listened to an interview with a candidate on a public radio station in which he was asked only about another candidate … We do not exist for them and do not even mention us because there are media speakers interested in focusing only on two candidates. The partners see her, they realize what is happening and they are not fooled. “
Making it clear that he is not offside or inferior to Laporta and Font at all, Freixa revealed that he also spoke with Jordi Cruyff “but we are respectful”. “Of course, I talked to Jordi, as well as all the relevant people who were used during the campaign. I didn’t use his name, as others do, because his figure deserves respect.”
Referring to election day, the candidate assured that “his vote is both useful and necessary. Firstly, because we are the only independents, because we do not owe favorites to anyone, and secondly, because we are the only ones who have explained to us. We are neither the candidate hiding in anticipation of the campaign, nor the one who every two it needs to be straightened out “.
And finally, he did not miss the opportunity to refer to the arrests of Bartomeu and Masferrer on Monday, considering that it was all “a performance that pursued a goal. I do not judge the facts or I do not trust justice or the presumption of innocence. But this has come out now, in the middle of the campaign … There is a perverse environment that wants to emphasize me as a continuum, but the partner cannot be deceived.