The president ofStudents of La Plata, Juan Sebastián Verón, in the midst of his crusade to install the Sports Joint Stock Companies in it argentine soccertold how he met the American tycoon Foster Gillett: “I met him in Argentina, through Guillermo Tofoni. In fact, he knew me from football and, from there, we began to have a relationship more linked to the vision and need of Argentine football than the one Estudiantes has.”
“I told him, are you willing to buy a club with 25 disciplines? ‘No, I like football,’ he tells me.”he acknowledged Veronwhich is why Students It is still a Civil Society.
“So there the system is different, don’t insist on buying a club. Let’s see about building a new society with football and that gives you resources so that civil society, so to speak, has those resources to continue improving and sports continue to grow. There we began to discuss this new model,” he added in this regard.
“The investor puts money to earn money, that is the first thing, there is not much mystery, he is not Santa Claus either”assured the president of the La Plata club.
Finally, Veron He gave more details of what the agreement with the American businessman would be: “We don’t know if the society is going to last 20 or 100 years, we have no idea. We gave it a logical term, as the development of each society is the time it will give us. We put it for 30 years and with the possibility of extending the period. term”.
The duration of the agreement and the initial investment of Gillett They are already on the table: “The agreement has a base, it will be between US$150 and 160 million, as a floor, although with an agreement like this in time you will fall short with 150, because it is US$5 million per year.”
“Obviously it is the club and it is not something new that is born, but we have to understand it that way. It is difficult, otherwise it seems that we count the years until something ends and we start it to transform, not so that things go badly for us,” he warned.
On the other hand, he said that the idea of Foster Gillett is driving “80% of Estudiantes football” and referred to the influence that it will have from now on in decision-making.
“If tomorrow Foster says that he doesn’t like (Eduardo) Domínguez, it’s an opinion and we can listen to it. From there to getting involved in such an important decision, like a coach or a sports director, without knowing the environment well, there “He would be attacking his own project. He has to rely on us, get to know the environment and tomorrow propose a technician.”Verón concluded.
Source: Ambito
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