Breaking: Diego Fernandes eyes XP tie-up for São Paulo investment | OneFootball

São Paulo president Harry Massis is meeting this afternoon with businessman Diego Fernandes, who has gained prominence among the Tricolor fans in recent times for his project to implement a SAF at the club and attract major investment.

Officially, the meeting will serve for Fernandes to present the chairman with ideas aimed at reforming São Paulo’s bylaws, as well as the suggestion of commissioning internal studies and “preparing the ground” to make a SAF model or the entry of private investment into the club feasible in the future.

This is not even new, as it had already been previewed by the businessman himself in an interview with a YouTube channel.

However, AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR has learned that the conversation will also include an extra urgent topic: the current São Paulo administration’s talks with XP Investimentos.

The report had revealed at the beginning of the month that São Paulo is negotiating behind the scenes a major financial injection promoted by the financial institution.

As revealed to AMT, discussions about the financial operation model are still at an early stage. The creation of a fund or a credit operation with guarantees is being discussed. More details, however, are being kept confidential.

XP representatives were at Morumbi for a meeting with Massis, board intermediaries, and adviser Marcelo Pepe, identified as the architect of the rapprochement between the bank and Tricolor and a supporter of the chairman.

Sources consulted by the report say Fernandes wants to understand XP’s interests and perhaps join forces with the institution to discuss paths toward professionalizing the club’s management.

According to the portal ‘UOL’, Fernandes will present his working group formed to draw up a plan for São Paulo: Lincoln Martins, a São Paulo-supporting businessman and son of Carlos Wizard Martins, founder of the Wizard language school, Pedro Turqueto, CEO of Copa Energia, Lavínia Junqueira, former legal director at Itaú, and Samy Dana, commentator for the radio station ‘Jovem Pan’ and professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).

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