That

Joan Laporta

and his managers began to sing the Barça anthem at the top of their lungs at a notary's office at number 550 on Avenida Diagonal in Barcelona at 2.30am.

this morning was already significant.

For all of them it was a second electoral victory.

The end of the agony.

The self-release of those who saw their access to the club in danger after not having been able to sign the guarantee of 124.6 million euros necessary until the last day of the deadline set by the statutes.

During this Wednesday LaLiga will receive the documentation to be approved and Laporta, if nothing goes wrong, will be invested as president this afternoon at the Camp Nou.

Negotiations to obtain the monstrous guarantees imposed by the Sports Law for clubs that are not yet public limited companies (15% of the expense budget with which managers must take charge of their assets in case of losses) led to the irruption of a new messiah for Laporta.

This is the energy businessman

José Elías

, owner of the renewable energy company that is listed on the Audax Stock Exchange, who saved a large part of that guarantee through Banco Sabadell.

Elías will not be able to be a manager because he does not prove enough years as a member of Barcelona.

However, and through his business right hand,

Eduard Romeu

(who also endorses), will ensure control of the finances of the Barça club at the highest level.

Elías, by the way, had already established contacts last May with the candidacy of

Víctor Font

to be part of the Barça organization in one way or another.

Control of Elías, owner of Audax

The Barcelona partners who went to the polls voted for a directive that could only contribute 50 million euros in equity of the 124.6 million required.

After the resignation last Saturday of Jaume Giró, former general director of the LaCaixa Foundation and who had already agreed a guarantee structure that was not carried out, the remaining 15 executives could only reach 50 million in equity.

Hence the rush, the final discard of a US vulture fund, and the incorporation of five new entrepreneurs - who have not gone through the polls - to take over the remaining 74 million.

More than half will assume them between Elías and his collaborator Romeu.

Audax, with a turnover last year of 969 million euros in a company in which Goldman Sachs also has shares (the fund that Espai Barça should finance), is the flagship of this newly minted tycoon from Badalona, ​​who is fond of piloting your helicopter.

Romeu, the right-hand man who will enter the club, is a longtime Barça fan, a regular in the third tier of the northern goal of the Camp Nou.

He was one of those partners who traveled by coach to the final of the European Cup in Seville in 1986.

This Wednesday afternoon, with 300 guests at the Camp Nou, Joan Laporta will finally be able to take over the presidency of Barcelona.

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