SAFiel confirms contact with Osmar Stabile, awaits Cori review | OneFootball

The SAFiel project said on Wednesday that it received a response from Corinthians president Osmar Stabile regarding the proposal submitted to the club for the implementation of a Sociedade Anônima do Futebol (SAF) model. According to an official statement released by the group, the contact was made by phone and marked a new chapter in the talks surrounding the initiative.

According to the statement, the conversation took place after Gaviões da Fiel pressed the black-and-white club’s president on Monday at Parque São Jorge. SAFiel also said that Stabile committed to taking the proposal to the Advisory Council (Cori), whose next meeting is scheduled for Monday the 27th.

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The organization says the president intends to seek Cori’s approval before moving forward with signing the proposal. Even so, the body is only advisory in nature and has no decision-making power, and can only issue recommendations to the board and the Deliberative Council. The proposal submitted by SAFiel includes raising billions in funds, creating a golden share, and a plan to address the debt tied to Neo Química Arena. The main points of the project can be found in a Central do Timão article.

Read SAFiel’s full statement below:

“Fifty days after the delivery of the non-binding proposal for the SAFiel project, last night, following a statement issued by Gaviões da Fiel, the president of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, Osmar Stabile, contacted SAFiel by phone.

During the call, the president confirmed that he will seek approval from CORI (Corinthians’ Advisory Council) to sign the proposal, and said that the body’s next meeting is scheduled for Monday the 27th.

Confident that Osmar Stabile will keep his word, SAFiel will wait until Tuesday for his official position on signing the non-binding proposal.

During the same call, Osmar Stabile again denied that he is holding any talks whatsoever to receive proposals for the sale of Corinthians’ football operations to an outside group.

We note this clarification with reservations, since all the evidence points in the opposite direction. We are closely and concernedly monitoring any movement suggesting negotiations to hand over Corinthians’ football operations to an outside investor, without transparency and without the participation of the Fiel supporters.

Corinthians belongs to the people. And the people are watching.

Sign, Fiel. Corinthians needs to hear the people.”

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.