Follow us on social networks:Valencia |23 06 22 |10:00 |Updated at 13:31News saved in your profileThe latest Nou Mestalla project presented by Valencia CF F. CalabuigValencia CF presented this Thursday the new project for the Nou Mestalla to the media, at a press conference in which Sean Bai (general director), Inmaculada Ibáñez (financial director), Christian Schneider (operations director ) and Mark Fenwick (stadium architect).A stadium with 49,000 spectators, expandable to 70,000, filling the upper ring, has been presented and the club has expressed its desire not to prosecute the process, although it confirms that it will defend its interests if the ATE expires.These have been all the statements of the four representatives who have appeared.The press conference to present the new Nou Mestalla project concludes.Today we share with the fans all the details of the new house.We will leave Mestalla with great sadness but we will come to this stadium with emotion.We want to make the Nou Mestalla an emblematic place for Valencia and its fans, who will be able to enjoy the facilities 365 days a year.We want to take the project hand in hand with the institutions.We have a unique opportunity and we want to finish as soon as possible.Inmaculada Ibáñez: Caixabank, in its letter of commitment, has made the existence of the ATE conditional because we have asked for financing in an environment in which the ATE is present.He submits to the ATE.Without ATE you would have to negotiate a different condition.We do not contemplate that we will not reach an agreement, but if we do not reach an agreement, we will have to see what the administration tells us.Caixabank's communication included this requirement.Schneider: Now we would no longer arrive to inaugurate the 24th, it would be for the summer of the 25th. The transfer must be done in the summer.Lathes, cameras, Intel 360. You have to take it out of the stadium and put it in this one.Now there would be no time.Schneider: It would be the authority that says that it has been breached and puts another promoter, but what administration would decide to finish the stadium and pass the bill to Valencia.I don't see any point in it when we want to finish it with this project.Schneider: Not right away.The license we have requested is subject to the ATE.If this falls, we would have to request another license, it would take more time.A year, a year and a half.The ATE gives us the legal certainty to finish it now.Schneider: A new urban figure requires a new negotiation.Legally they cannot ask us for a deposit of 115. The guarantee is a guarantee that you comply, you do not have to put all the money.We try to explain that we have sufficient financial security to make this a reality.What we see is that if we are required to deposit 115 million guarantees, no one is capable.What we are presenting is the project we have, we hope to row together.If it is prosecuted, there are problems and deadlines, the luck is that now we have the money to finish it.Let's hope we go hand in hand to finish this.Fenwick: It's like saying which son you like best.We have a special affection for it because we have been working here for many years.It is a course that is going to be one of the most spectacular.Those of the World Cup are smaller, it is different.The biggest we've done is this one.Schneider: We have to negotiate with the Police and LaLiga.Our animation grandstand will be in the lower grandstand of the north end.Capacity I could not say but it will go in the lower stands of the north end.The rival fans will go in the ring above.Sean Bai: From our side, the construction of the new stadium belongs to the club and we have to look for solutions before coming up with a plan B. Then we will see the next steps and evaluate if we need anything else.We want to build and finish the new stadium, this plan does not change.Inmaculada Ibáñez: We don't want the Mestalla buildable now, we want it when we finish the stadium.I cannot deposit guarantees, if we want to build on the impossible we cannot do anything.80 million is not little.I have a buyer and an office building, and financial entities that support me.Do you want to have your reservations to give us the buildability?They are within their rights, I am not asking for it now.Let's finish the stadium.What can be built in Mestalla will be what the administrations want, that also depends on the ATE.Our only plan is to make the stadium.Schneider: Each person has their tastes.Technically it is the same as the first, obviously there are better materials and new technologies.For visual purposes it is a personal matter.I personally did not like the first design, the second was complicated at the level of evacuation and I like this one more.For my part it is not worse, it is at least the same as the previous ones.As for the visual effect, each one has their taste, I like the visual effects and the balconies.Sean Bai: The best stadium is the atmosphere and the stories.Now what we are going to offer is a very nice space for the club and the fans, the next step is how to integrate people into it.Fenwick: We have improved the options in the stands.The spaces are magnificent, very few stadiums have this double-height space.It is a much more sustainable stadium.The sun cover.Then we didn't have the idea of ​​the balconies to be able to look down before and the roof is spectacular, state-of-the-art.I think this is a much better cover, it's a magnificent stadium and the fans have to enjoy it.Fenwick: There is a grandstand with no space, as an architect I am not going to put up tarps.If the club wants to create color or put sponsors, they will put tarps.In my project there are none.The stretched cover is not canvas, it is a textile cover.Schneider: We have requested that the restore points be inhabited.Those are included in the license that we have requested.The spaces that will give to the outside are subject to a future license when the explorer arrives.Here are not going to be mobile bars.Schneider: The camera shot is, above all, the front row to the camera.With empty seats the image is ugly.From here to there we will see if a sponsor enters and we put up tarps.I do not understand that 20,000 seats are a stumbling block to move this forward, for our part, the agreement should not be modified because the stadium can be expanded to 70,000.We are open to talk with management.Schneider: Yes. A building with open courts is not the same and three buildings are more expensive.We are willing to pay what we promised and fulfill the first agreement, what we are not going to do is that they ask us for a skyscraper and we build it.There is an extra cost.Inmaculada Ibáñez: Valencia is going to build the stadium with or without ATE.It would not make sense to mortgage us with CVC and have 80 million for nothing.Valencia yes or yes is going to build the stadium.We have offered the administration that the ATE does not expire, that it expires in 2025 and that they expire then if we have not finished the stadium.Plan B is that the meters are there, if the ATE expires we would have to ask for the license but the stadium is going to be built.The problem we would have is that it will take longer.We are going to focus on the new stadium, what it offers us is legal certainty for the works and to sell the tertiary.If we want to start, it is the easiest solution, but it does not mean that without ATE we will not build the stadium.Fenwick: What we have done is go to the minimum possible that FIFA and UEFA regulations allow.We want the stands to be as close as possible to the pitch.You will see when you look that the pennants are the corners of the field.Schneider: The one who has to give the building license is Activities, it is with whom it was negotiated to present a modified one.The City Council told us that we could build now.There is a planning change, the City Council will have to say if it complies.There is a change in the construction regulations, let's make a new stadium, let's not make it new with the 2007 regulations. Regarding the evacuation, there are external stairs and that must be communicated to Activities.Then they transfer the project to Urbanism.Schneider: The ATE gives us a guarantee.If you process everything again, you face possible uncertainties and, above all, a much longer term.We cannot modify and do it in another way.If we want to finish in two and a half years, we have to do it subject to the ATE.On the judicialization we have no objective of it, we want to finish.Sean Bai: We don't think about that scenario.The important thing is to go hand in hand with the administration.Inmaculada Ibáñez: Who can be a Valencianista and have an interest in not pushing forward?Schneider: We have not presented a commitment but we are open to negotiations.20,000 seats must not block this stadium.Inmaculada Ibáñez: Valencia is the one that has the commitment to build the stadium, not Peter Lim.Valencia must be the one to face their problems.Lim has given me loans and has never let me down but we get confused if we believe that Lim has to pay this, it is Valencia that has to guarantee viability.Schneider: Considering that the stadium costs 70,000, the cost of the stadium is 3,500 per spectator.The rest is just putting seats.Schneider: In 2007, 3,500 parking spaces were required.The City Council was worried.In a stadium, putting 3,500 cars under it means monitoring them for a security issue, dogs track you and they look at your underbody.The collapse of those 3,500 cars is crazy.The change of circulation of Safor street was raised.With the ATE it was justified that it is a circulation problem, now we talk about sustainability and the use of public transport.It was studied where and how the fans came from.What we have planned is 400 or 500 seats under the stadium, 3,500 would be crazy.Fenwick: We have improved sustainability, having 3,500 cars is not feasible.Today that is avoided.In the World Cup you can not do parking under the stadium.I recently said that Real Madrid had 500 seats and I was wrong, there are 490. There are things outside but the stadium is more sustainable, you have to look for public transport and that means there is less hassle for the community and the city.Schneider: Two years ago a study of the concrete was done and everything was fine.There is no risk of collapse.Fenwick: Look at the Colosseum in Rome after 2,000 years.The concrete is in great condition.Things have to be repaired but 95% is fine and it could be for many more years, I hope not.Schneider: The grandstand is built and it is 74,000.We phase to put more seats but the stadium is 74,000.It was done according to the agreement.The needs were agreed together with the administration and what has been built complies with the agreement.Fenwick: If there is a Champions we can go up.We are not looking for removable solutions: there is room for 74,000.Now it is agreed to put 49,000 seats but the stadium is 70-74,000.Schneider: The agreement specifies that the minimum is 70,000 and the stadium complies.Over time everything changes, this is from 2004-2005 and we adapt, just like with the needs of the sports center.We are going to open with 49,000 because it is the demand, if there is a big event like the 2030 World Cup, in a few months the missing chairs will be put up.Fenwick: It is the best for Valencia and it seems that 49,000 is the best right now.Schneider: Yes, it is what was presented.It has been adjusted after the meetings, such as capacity.Small changes have been made on what was knocked down a couple of months ago.This is what was presented two weeks ago.The cost of a stadium is measured in euros per seat, considering us 70,000 the cost will be around 3,500-4,000 per seat, similar to what San Mamés or Wanda have cost and these are not cheap stadiums.If you go to Qatar or England it shoots up but in Spain it is the costs that touch.Sean Bai: It is not interpretable but objective: the ATE is not expired.It is not finished yet and the club has submitted documents showing that we have met the main points.Until the administration analyzes the documentation, it cannot be considered expired, otherwise it would be denying Valencia its right to respond.Inmaculada Ibáñez: If Manuel Illueca was asked if what Valencia presented was a financial guarantee, he answered correctly because he is not.But asking if it is viable is very different.We have 80 million in the drawer and we are interested in buying tertiary, that brings us to 100% and we are going to sell the office building.They asked if it is a guarantee and it is not.He said that he was willing to sit down and find solutions and so was I.I, the city and Valencianism are interested in finishing it, we are open to unblock this situation.Inmaculada Ibáñez: We are not here to talk about the FPF.You know we're wrong, I'm not going to deny it.Before June 30 or later you will allow me not to answer, it is an internal issue of the company and we will manage our strategy.I'll justify it to you at the shareholders' meeting.Schneider: The 115 are just this building, the sports center is separate.The stadiums have been empty and it has been very sad, it is bleak and it doesn't make much sense.In the previous project we did not talk about 49 and 70 but 42 and 76. The administration asked us not to be less than Mestalla and we adapted to 49 and by the 2005 agreement 70. On the track, you will see that this grandstand is not at the same height: it's like Wembley and Glasgow: a platform is put here and the athletics track is set up.If the city council needed to carry out the project, they would carry it out because the stadium is capable of hosting it.Fenwick: This is exactly the level at which the platform would be created.There is a slight change in geometry: here you have to assemble a large platform that can take two or three months to build.It is quite expensive but it is possible.What would remain as a stadium is the upper part, because another part is below the platform.The stadium has 70,000, let's do what's best for Valencia and if there are 70,000 fans as soon as it opens, let's make 70,000.But looking at the capacity numbers, I hope that statistic will go up and I'm sure it will, but you have to have a full stadium.Sean Bai: You mean the previous position.From the part of the club we do not want to prosecute the process, quite the opposite.Until now we have always tried to go hand in hand with the administration to make a strategic and beautiful project.The club has to defend its interests but we want to find agreements.If despite our will, having presented a credible project, the administration decides to go ahead with the expiration of the ATE, the club would be forced to appeal that disproportionate and unjustified decision.Schneider: We have offers from various companies.The technical solution is similar in terms of compression and traction.Instead of having the panels we had some stretched canvas.Architects are working with engineering and an estimated 30-35 million.The roof is included in the project.What we have presented is what Valencia is going to do, but we are working with partners that help with the photovoltaic issue, but the cover is within the club's numbers.Schneider: We are working with the administrations and we have presented them with the documentation, our intention is not to prosecute this but to work.If unilaterally they decide to expire, we have to defend our interests.We are working based on some measurements of a basic project, there are some small differences and we have increased material increments, the cost of the roof has been calculated with price increases.We also have those lines of credit.Once the project is executed, you have to sit down and go line by line to set prices or margins for increases.Superdeporte Editorial Company, SA All rights reserved