Soriano Press Conference: What Did We Learn?
By: Cesar | July 6th, 2009
The Vicente Soriano press conference just ended. What did Valencia CF fans learn about their beloved club? (To read a transcript of the press conference, please click here. To read it in English, press the button to the left of the RSS reader button in the chat window.)
Two things stand out in particular:
1 – Inversiones Dalport is the company that now heads VCF. Soriano is a spokesman and representative of the group. Who are they? No one knows. They have no web presence as of yet.
2 – Soriano said the company will pay 500 million Euros for shares in VCF and the Old Mestalla.
The capital increase is now blocked. So essentially, our debt is wiped out. Work will begin on the Nou Mestalla ASAP.
My reaction? WHAT?!? I’m sorry if I find this all very hard to believe …
This press conference raised more questions than answers. The entire thing was an exercise in vagueness. Soriano promised to tell us more in a few days. Why not just tell us now?
Why the secrecy? Why even call a press conference?
I’m not sure what to think about the 500 million Euros. Is this for real?
Who is Dalport Investments? Who runs them? Why are they paying so much for VCF? What’s in it for them?
What does this mean as far as new players, our own players, etc etc etc … ????
There is no transparency or concrete vision in anything Soriano said.
Now we have to wait a few days for ANOTHER press conference where we’ll be lead like dogs on a leash to another explanation about what’s going on??
Oh my. Valencia Experience 2.0, anyone?
Basically, the only news to come out of this is that this Dalport company will wipe out our debt. Who they are and where they’re really from is to be announced at a later date.
If you missed the press conference, you didn’t miss anything. No one really knows more going out of it than going in. We’re all here scratching our heads, wondering who Dalport is and what they want with VCF …
I’ll be happier than a cat in heat if Dalport spends this money, we’re out of debt and the club can be run like normal. I cross my fingers.
Problem is, with all this vagueness, this is all so very confusing. I wish VCF ran in a more professional way. This drama, whatever you lads may think, is not healthy for a club, its players or its supporters.
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Soriano can’t prevent Llorente and Roig from doing the first round of the capital increase tomorrow. Now, Soriano and Dalport have got the majority – but afterwars, who knows?
Just invent they have 5100 of 10.000 shares now, just to illustrate. So at the moment it would be enough for 51% of the shares. Let’s just invent tomorrow there will be 2000 new shares sold – if Llorente or Roig or Kyle or Cesar or Johnnie bought them and not Soriano/Dalport, then they would own 5100 of 12.000 shares which means they’d have 42,5% of all shares – maybe still main shareholder, but no majority and no ownership anymore.
And because Soriano cannot be sure how this things will turn out, he is not able to announce what exatly he will do and what Dalport will do because he does not know if he will have the power to do so.
Tell me if I am wrong in my deliberations.
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@ Almendras
Thanks for clearing it mate, that is some good info!! Too bad the vodka, JW and Heineken already worsened my headache, but it hurts me to see Valencia, our great club, being played with and lied to by people pretending to be fighting for the clubs existence but than selling us out to these criminals. Of course the entire truth will be made clear soon so we can not be sure of anything yet, but we must be very careful with who we get involved with and how this all evolves.Media says the club has already gotten documentation that Dalport has the majority of the shares, i dont know if that documentation is actually valid. Though it gives me great joy to see our current board plus our Penyas and loyal fans doing everything they can to check and double check if this is seriously a real investor and if this really is the best for our club. Thank Darwin there are still some people who remain sceptical when things look too good to be true. Amunt Valencia, lets all hope our club gets out of this situation in a good manner!
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@ El Valenciano
you are right. Normally though the current shareholders get the first option to buy the new shares so they can remain in power, but i doubt Soriano will do that. Thats why they are now searching for a wealthy investor to buy the new shares to resist us from being taken-over!Posted from
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LOL. WE wouldnt be the first club bought with dodgey money and we wont be the last.if we dont sell all our stars and the debt has gone i couldnt care less who owns us
the upright citezens that have run this club up to now have done a fantastic job.notPosted from
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Well,new shares will be sold to ordinary people,who can’t buy more then 10 shares,so again Dalport group will have most power in club.It was planed that new 2 millions shares will be sold.And you will have at most 200000 new shareholders,that doesn’t mean that Dalport will lose power,because those 200000 aren’t organize group.
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I know this doesn’t belong here, but I can’t help myself. OGUCHI ONYEWU HAS SIGNED FOR MILAN!!!
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Amigo’s..
What about this–>
El Valencia CF recibe la documentación
El club ché tiene los papeles que certifican la transacción de acciones a favor de la empresa Inversiones Dalport.
VOTE ESTA NOTICIA
EFE El Valencia CF-SAD ha recibido la documentación que certifica la transacción de acciones de la entidad a favor de la empresa Inversiones Dalport SA, que posee más del cincuenta por ciento del capital social de la entidad.
Así lo indicaron fuentes del club valenciano, que también informaron de que han recibido una solicitud formal de convocatoria de junta general extraordinaria de accionistas de la entidad.
En la tarde del lunes, el empresario Vicente Soriano, que presidió el club durante once meses hasta los primeros días del pasado junio, anunció que esta empresa controla esa cantidad de acciones y que iba a invertir quinientos millones de euros en el club, lo que daba viabilidad económica a la entidad.
Previamente, Soriano había informado al presidente del Valencia, Manuel Llorente, de que se había realizado esta operación y le había pedido verbalmente que convocara una junta de accionistas para conformar un nuevo consejo de administración en el club y para revocar la ampliación de capital que formalmente da comienzo mañana.
De estas dos propuestas ya hay constancia documental en el día de hoy, aunque no se ha establecido la fecha de celebración de la junta general de accionistas, que en caso alguno se podría celebrar antes de treinta días, según las mismas fuentes.
La junta se celebrará treinta días después de que el consejo de administración del club la convoque formalmente.
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I think soriano is our florentino perez, he does everything for our club.. EVERYTHING.. it’s a shame that things will not come out as everybody expected.I trust in him i think in a few days everything will sort out and we are a healthy club again!
Amunt SORIANO!!!
Don’t forget we have a new shirt sponsors thanks to Soriano!
Don’t forget we have a mega new Tv contract thanks to Soriano!
Don’t forget we have a new website thanks to soriano!
Don’t forget Villa y Silva will stay with us thanks to Soriano!
Thanks to Soriano we have other new sponsors such as Mercedes Benz and Loewe..Please don’t fuck up agian!
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Renan’s future reamins unclear and Miku: “I do not want to sit” stories…
http://loco4losche.com/blogweb/index.php
@ Steef.
Valencia’s website sucks!
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I think the one thing we can all agree on, wether on not you like Soriano, is that he is TOO FUCKING SECRETIVE! Everything is a secret with him. It’s like he is paranoid or something. At least he told use who the buyer was this time. Baby steps I guess. Baby steps…
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i agree with Kyle, why all the mystery?
It just doesn’t feel right in a way……
Hopefully things will become more clear soon!Posted from
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Steef mercedes is not our sponser…..
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Hi, well, as has been said the Spanish press have confirmed the 2 pieces of paper have been brought to the Club concerning the purchase of the shares. But that is not money is it ? and from a domain site that hasnt even got a website !! What a lot of mystery, why wait, why didnt Soriano bring the documents with him yesterday, Why call a press conference if you dont answer anything.
Jaume Part, President of all the Valencia fanclubs has said,we’ve had no evidence and no facts and the Club owe it to the fans to clear things up NOW.
I rather liked the blog after one of the Spanish articles which sums it up.Translated…
“This must be the -Valencia Experience- we have been looking for all this time”Posted from
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OH, one thing I forgot we signed Nacho Gonzalez on Sept. 1st last year and loaned him straight away. He is from Uraguay where the money for Soler-s shares is said to have come from. Perhaps he persuaded his dad to make a bid so he could get included in the team. Naco that is, not his dad.
Why do we always have about 8 to 10 on loan all the time. They should call the club the “Rent Boys”..AdiosPosted from
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Soriano is either very stupid or very insane.
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Why is Soriano being so secretive? Well, take a wild guess: he’s handling a 500M business transfer… I’M being secretive when I’m buying pervert sex toys (for Banega *laughs*), not to mention when I’m handling larger sums of money. This is business, people, no one talks about it publicly untill the deal is finished and done.
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From Tristan White of the great Che-UK penya of England. For some reason, his message was sent as spam …
According to WHOIS domain tools, http://whois.domaintools.com/inversionesdalport.com (website doesn’t exist) was registered last December by VICTOR BRAVO. address Geranios 11 in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid.
People warn about having lost investments with this company in the past on various discussion forums, such as http://inza.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/como-denunciar-fraudes-estafas-y-delitos-por-internet-2/comment-page-27/#comment-26841
Take money for investments and then disappear etc etc. See on this link various people’s anger dating back to 2007.
This, coupled with the fact that they copied their logo out of a kids’ colouring book (see those other links), makes me feel rather worried.
Also, why are they so elusive? They are apparently Uruguayan originally (though no mentions on the Internet of them prior to the last couple of days). They have close Valencia ties (according to Soriano) but these are unclear. Someone back at the end of June (hence, BEFORE any press release linking Valencia with Dalport) started a discussion forum
http://inversionesdalport.foroactivo.net
(clearly, not created by Dalport)
in which there is just the one post, by Admin, which warns people to be wary of Víctor Vicente Bravo, and goes on to say “and if you don’t believe me, ask Air Comet” – the Madrid based airline that flies to Latin America and which has been suspended by IATA because they have not paid their bills and are facing bankrupcy (many staff have not been paid since January), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_CometHas the financial problems come from a bad investment the company made with Dalport? Who knows. Certainly, this is what the mysterious “Admin” is suggesting back last June, before Dalport was mentioned as the Valencia investors! So very odd.
So who are Dalport? Some kind of conglomerate of investors. Warnings online of people who invested money and never saw it again. But of course this is speculation and conspiracy theories.
But the thing that worries me most, MORE than any people moaning about lost investments with them, MORE than the fact that someone put up a mysterious post warning about Víctor Vicente Bravo a week before they went public, MORE than the fact they don’t have a website, MORE than another supposedly dodgy company, CRON Developments, is registered at the same address and managed by the same Víctor Bravo, etc etc. is the issue with the logo.
What company, with £500m to spend on buying Mestalla, cannot afford money to pay a logo designer to design an original logo, rather than copying perfectly an eagle from a kid’s colouring book?
It certainly seems odd. I don’t know what will happen next. But whatever statements are made, this logo one will need addressing, as it has made Dalport appear the biggest bunch of amateurs this side of, errm, Valencia Experience.
Let’s hope that our fears are allayed….
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So, Dalport would be a canular(French word)? Plus, they were owned by an Uruguayan(originally).
Still, Soriano bought shares. He didn’t have money and bought them. I think that they (dalport) might have obtained it illegally. But, who knows?
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http://www.marca.com/charlas/mata/07072009.html
It’s not related to the faith of the club, but it’s quite good.
Apparently, Mata will be answering questions from internauts at 19h00. If anybody is interested…
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Finally:
http://www.marca.com/futbol/equipos/valencia.html
A link on the video about he press conference of Soriano.
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@ Kyle: Valencia site is better than the former one and i like it
@: El Rey: Ok..Cooperate with ValenciaSo Can we expect some news this evening?
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Proberly there is a following press conference on thursday with members of the Dalport group and Soriano..
according to: Foroche
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Victor Vicente Bravo, Duelo del VCF: “Si, nosotros hemos comprado el Valencia”
« : Hoy a las 19:36:55 »——————————————————————————–
Como muchos sabeis, a traves de recoger muchos datos, hemos obtenido esto:
BRAVO, VÍCTOR bravo.victor5@gmail.com
GERANIOS 11
BOADILLA DEL MONTE, MADRID 28660
ES
0034-916323346Pues bien, he hablado con el tal Victor Vicente Bravo, y me ha dicho lo siguiente:
VICTOR VICENTE BRAVO, DUEÑO DE DALPORT: “Si, nosotros hemos comprado el Valencia, y no hay nadie detras”.
“El Jueves tenemos previsto llegar a Valencia para dar una rueda de prensa”
“No le puedo decir mas que, hemos comprado el Valencia, y tenemos un acuerdo para que Don Vicente Soriano, sea nuestro portavoz hasta entonces, cualquier cosa a Don Vicente Soriano”
“El comunicado si fue aprobado por nosotros, pero no es nuestro logo. Todavia tenemos que hacer uno”Posted from
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@ Adimente.
No, Soriano did not buy shares. Inversiones Dalport bought shares…
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maybe sorino just fuck us to belive thats he well give the club 500 miljon. whay now? … if he had the money valencia wold buy in Negredo and Granero
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United States
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