The president of Students from La Plata, Juan Sebastian Veronconfessed that he does not know in detail the agreement with the American magnate’s investment group Foster Gillett to manage the club’s football area.
Without a doubt, the debate regarding the implementation or not of Sports Joint Stock Companies occupied the Argentine football agenda throughout last year, confronting the AFA with the national government and allies such as Estudiantes de La Plata and Talleres de Córdoba.
Precisely, in the last months of 2024, the La Plata club chaired by the idol Juan Sebastián Verón advanced in an agreement with the investment group of the magnate Foster Gillett and, in recent days, it generated a stir with the activation of the termination clause that the midfielder Cristián Medina had with Boca, an operation that was stalled due to the deposit from an account not permitted by FIFA, and the arrival of forward Lucas Alario from Internacional de Porto Alegre in Brazil.
In the midst of this context of uncertainty among the members of Estudiantes de La Plata due to the gray points that the agreement has, it was once again Verón who came out to support the partnership with Gillett after the statements of the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, in the which stated that the club will be a Sports Joint Stock Company.
“We are giving the legal framework to the agreement so that we can work together. We are going to form a partnership with the investor. The business is based on football. Several points of the framework agreement were polished. The fine print, not even I know. It is good that there is a counterpoint within the Board of Directors”declared the leader of ‘Pincha’ on the eve of the members’ meeting at the beginning of February, which must approve the agreement with the investment group that has already disbursed the money regardless of the decision of the corporate mass.
Furthermore, Verón acknowledged that there are differences in the Estudiantes Board of Directors regarding this agreement: “They cling to a club from another era. It doesn’t seem healthy to me that we miss this opportunity. Many cling to the club from another era, but Estudiantes “it needs something else to grow.”
“You are always going to touch interests, I have nothing against anyone. My businesses go elsewhere, they are not here. I don’t owe anything to anyone, they can investigate me. I don’t want to get into the names of who respects the rules and who doesn’t.” “We are all part of this and we all want the clubs to have better resources.”added the former Argentine national team player.
Finally, the champion of the 2009 Copa Libertadores de América with the La Plata club commented on how his management will continue in the event that the agreement is not approved: “If the partners do not approve the agreement, I will continue working until the end of my management. I am sorry that if it is not approved it is due to details, we are far from wanting to harm the club.
Source: Ambito
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