Badajoz enters creditor pre-competition

The sale of Badajoz has not yet been closed, but Lanuspe SL shows its cards with a movement that has always been very present since its arrival and that the group refused. The management company led by Luis Oliver has requested creditors’ pre-bankruptcy, a preliminary step to avoid going into bankruptcy, to know the real debt and negotiate agreements for a haircut or lengthen the payment time. The black and white club thus revives the ghosts that in 2012 led to its liquidation when the Treasury did not accept the agreement. This statement is part of “an economic viability plan adjusted to reality and avoiding possible future responsibilities”, according to the group in a statement and “in order to be certain about the number of creditors that arise day after day and their economic amount.

Lanuspe has decided to take this step three days after the squad returned to their knees during the first minute of the match against Bilbao Athletic. The investment group acknowledges in the note that he is hurt. “The new ownership is deeply disappointed by the team’s protest at the start of the last game in our stadium”, since, according to what it maintains, “funds have been contributed since February, paying day-to-day expenses of the club, from services phone calls, travel, lawn maintenance, security, quarry housing and food, employee payroll, and first-team payroll for March and April.” The players had stopped making these acts of planting as a complaint about the situation to give future buyers a margin of confidence, but the monthly payments in arrears continued to accumulate and last Saturday they resumed the claim despite the fact that some received the April payroll.

This decision is made without the signing of Joaquín Parra yet, despite the fact that Lanuspe maintains that it has already drawn up the purchase-sale contract, although it still does not have an administrator and the Malaga judge authorized the operation two months ago. In this regard, Lanuspe wants to make it clear that in this time of uncertainty it has been contributing capital without being sure of taking over the shareholding package of the entity from Badajoz. «This money that has been entering the club, vital for its survival, is a risky and adventurous financial effort, since there was no certainty that the purchase-sale would be authorized by the Malaga Investigating Court, something already resolved, and the ratification of the contract of sale has not yet taken place, ”he specifies. The group also announces the call for a General Shareholders’ Meeting to change the members of the SAD’s board of directors once the current owner is signed.

Lanuspe recalls that the delicate economic and social situation that Badajoz is going through predates its arrival and that they took the lead as administrators and have dedicated themselves to trying to reverse it by putting money into “an unfathomable hole.” «We need the fans to understand that CD Badajoz was in danger of extinction and that now it competes healthy and powerful. Reaching this in three months, against all odds, has not been an easy task », he adds.

From Oliver’s mercantile they assure that their approach is “to continue supporting the club until its total sanitation, so that it can compete next season with the tranquility and strength that this centenary institution demands.”

And the letter ends with the purpose of preparing the club for “a stage in which expenses will be limited to the income generated.” In that sense, the great black and white social mass is entrusted to trust the project and not abandon ship because Badajoz “will be what its fans want in the future.”