Barcelona have hit out at options that president Joan Laporta has ‘damaged the foundations’ together with his cope with Turkish firm Limak to develop the well-known Camp Nou stadium.
The membership confirmed earlier this month that Limak will start work on Camp Nou on the finish of the present season as a part of the bigger Espai Barça growth, with the growth of the stadium anticipated to take round three years.
Nonetheless, Spanish publication El Confidencial have since claimed to have proof that Laporta disregarded the membership’s personal bidding guidelines to grant the contract to Limak, arguing that the developmental work is liable to collapsing altogether.
The allegations shortly reached Barcelona, who revealed a prolonged assertion to disclaim all of the claims in opposition to them.
“FC Barcelona desires to disclaim the content material of the data revealed at this time, Monday, January 23, 2023, by El Confidencial with the next headline: #Laporta broke the Barça guidelines to provide the works of the Camp Nou to the Turkish Limak’.“
Within the assertion, Barcelona denied 5 particular arguments from the preliminary report.
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Starting with an allegation that the membership’s personal bidding process ought to have prevented an organization like Limak from successful the contract, the Blaugrana defined: “In no case is there a bidding contract as such, however inside the bidding process there’s a pre-qualification part and one other part of sending the specs.
“The specs despatched on September 1, 2022 permit all the businesses which have participated to use for the tender since all of them met the most recent pre-qualification standards established by FC Barcelona.
“The specs for the tender for the renovation works of the Spotify Camp Nou have been communicated to all the businesses that utilized and have a legitimate date of September 1, 2022. This specification doesn’t set up a requirement to have the ability to be successful firm that ought to have constructed a soccer discipline with greater than 40,000 seats or two constructions referring to Spain.
“Previous to this bidding course of, there was a course of that started in 2017 that was cancelled in December 2020 by way of an official communication by way of the FC Barcelona Provider Portal to all taking part corporations at the moment. It’s not till September 2022 when the brand new bidding course of started by way of which the works are awarded as one of the best valued firm to LIMAK.”
Additionally denied by the membership have been claims that: Laporta ignored the bidding guidelines, Limak mustn’t have been in a position to bid and the constructing allow is more likely to be rejected consequently.
Barcelona have argued that the unique bidding course of, which started in 2017, could have included sure parameters which have since been eliminated when the plans have been reignited in 2022, permitting Limak to enter the race.