Alexandrina Cruz and Joga Sale: «Right now we don’t have a concrete proposal» – Rio Ave

Alexandrina Cruz took over her duties this afternoon as president of Rio Ave, finally declaring that the team’s registration in UEFA competitions is an “internal assumption, regardless of the classification and financial issues of the club”, assuming that this will be a condition. to keep pace with the new era. The club’s new leader from Vila do Conde also admitted there was no concrete proposal at hand for the departure of Guga and even Costinha, both of whom were recently appointed to FC Porto. “In terms of potential sales, at the moment we don’t have any specific proposals. We can only wait, because we know it’s important for the players and also for Rio Ave. It’s clear that the club is not counting on this, what’s important is for the players to be in good shape, the team to be stable, Because we couldn’t sign players.Of course, the financial issue is important, but we also have other solutions that we’ve been looking for, fostering some ideas for some time now.Immediately focus on the closest goals you want to achieve,” Alexandrina Cruz said.

“We have to promote very quickly an Ordinary General Assembly of the plan of activities and the budget. We should have done it in June, as the statute requires, but because of this electoral period that was not possible. Therefore, at the end of this month or the beginning of August at the latest “This meeting has to take place. Then we have the other issue of legal change in which the opening of Sports Limited will be on the table and this will have to happen in the near future,” he admitted, but without urgently marking the matter:

“The priority is stability and to have that in sporting terms we also have to have financial stability. The club’s income boils down to very little, with merchandising and membership fees, for example, so we’re talking about TV rights to sell assets. In terms of TV rights We have a great and reasonable value compared to the National Panorama and in terms of selling the assets until January, it is very complicated because we have not been able to register players, and we have to find a way to create an interesting balance here between financial and sporting needs.”

For the rest, Alexandrina Cruz also assumes that “the issue of selling assets is key to achieving balance.” “Since we are going to have a hard time selling, even because looking at the team we don’t have a very wide scope for that possibility, we have to be prepared for this SAD issue. But it doesn’t have to be something that is too stressful for the management or the partners, they are the ones to decide. I will have the opportunity In the association to clarify the whole situation in Rio Ave, our accounts have been public for many years to comply with UEFA regulations and are available on the club’s website.Therefore, there is nothing to hide, but it is necessary to explain, also because these issues in the field of football always have a lot of emotions Like it or not, we all love the ball to go in, but that alone is not enough to manage any club here. There must be a set of attitudes that lead us to achieve this stability, ”explained the new captain of SDUC Vila-Condense.