Five months separate the call from sports society Huesca to the institutional collaboration with the El Alcoraz stadium and the future sale to the government of Aragon for 24.4 million euros, which will be ratified by the patrons of the club at the shareholders board on August 11. A formula that did not appear in those words of the president of the entity, Agustín Lasaosa, but that will give oxygen to a club in the process of recovery after several loss exercises after the descent to LaLiga Hypermotion from First Division.
Without going any further, according to the data of the last meeting of the shareholders last year, the Huesca He closed the 2023/2024 season, in addition to a permanence in the penultimate day and at agonizing times, with losses of 5.1 million and restructuring measures behind them, such as the sound Ere: until thirteen layoffs in the club and the Alcoraz Foundation, the maximum shareholder until the new owners, the Costa and Arqa groups, make the loans to the majority.
Under the pretext of compensation for the new Romareda and the non -law proposition approved in the Cortes, the participation of the institutions in a reform of El Alcoraz alluded in the beginning of several pending fronts in the Altoaragonese fief. From completing the covered ceiling for spectators to recovering the restaurant located in one of the corners or rethinking the space dedicated to a museum that was never built, but it did have an important expense. The stadium completed its last remodeling with the general stand in 2021, coinciding with the last step of Huesca for the highest category of Spanish football and with pandemic and sport without audiences.
Already in May, the contact round with the DGA, in the end the buyer, the Diputación de Huesca and the town hall of the town showed the will to seek “collaboration formulas that allow to culminate the reform of El Alcoraz, while ensuring the sustainability, improvement and adequate management of the stadium in the medium and long term”, according to the statement issued then by the SAD. Thus, the path of public-private exploitation was opened ”and to share“ responsibilities in management and administration ”, which has crystallized in the transfer of property.
Figures dance
On the Altoaragonese capital it does not weigh, except surprise, the 2030 World Cup horizon that marks the Romareda road map. However, the aforementioned compensation extendable to other points such as Tarazona, Barbastro or Teruel (said by the political representatives themselves) has accelerated the process.
The motion debated at the Consistory Oscense spoke of injected 7.5 million into the set of sports facilities, the PSOE He proposed to invest three and the NLP urged, without figures, to “collaborate with the clubs” in a “transverse” way. They have been 24.4 million with the commitment not to distribute the surplus value as dividends and that Huesca can use them for their own development after appearing a year ago to the creditors’ contest or, directly, the disappearance. The duration of the agreement will be two years and many others extendable.
There will be five payments throughout the year and a half after sale: 20% in formalization, 20% six months later, 15% at nine months, 15% at twelve months, 15% at fifteen and 15% remaining at 18. A part can be allocated to the sports workforce. According to LaLiga de February data, the S.D. Huesca It had just over 2.5 million euros of salary limit, the lowest in the category.
Isaac Claver, Lorena Orduna and Jorge Azcón in Alcoraz. Photo: LaLiga.
The City Council and the Diputación
Of the three agents with which the Barca team filed contacts, the agreement for the sale is exclusive to the Aragon government. The DPH led by Isaac Claver continues one more year as a sponsor and the town hall of Lorena Orduna opened the door to bring great events. The last was the final of the Queen’s Cup between F.C. Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid, but the agreement with the DGA refers to “other sporting, cultural and recreational events of public interest.”
In recent times, and following the first division, the Municipal Government has also facilitated the improvement of accesses through the Cerro de San Jorge, the creation of parking lots around the Sports Palace or the impulse to public transport lines in the party days at specific times. “They collaborate in the day to day with the same objectives,” said the vice president and spokesman of the Executive, Cowboy sea, asked about the other institutions.
The agreement with the club sets the future tender of the stadium, forbidden concurrence for the Huesca, and will then be when the rest of the details about the new management are known, which opens an unpublished scenario in Alto Aragón. Since its construction, in 1972, Alcoraz had always been owned by its team.
