Desvaux questions Unión’s finances, vows to protect club assets | OneFootball

Héctor Desvaux, leader of Encuentro Unionista, launched a strong attack against the management of Luis Spahn ahead of the Unión Assembly.

In the lead-up to the Ordinary General Assembly of members to be held this Monday, Héctor Desvaux, one of the main figures of Encuentro Unionista, and who came just a few votes short of unseating Luis Spahn’s administration in the last Unión elections, expressed strong criticism of the current management and ignited the institutional debate.

“No, look, these days continued in the same way with some meetings requesting information, but well, let’s see, our attitude is always proactive, we always say that Unión comes before everything, so a priori we are positive about everything and try to lend a hand in everything we can.”

“Obviously, there are a lot of concerns, some of which were answered and many that were not. And well, we are waiting for this assembly to be able to resolve those concerns. If they are resolved, everything will be fine; if not, we are committed to the club’s history.”

“Not long ago, a lot of Unión supporters said they wanted a different kind of management, and well, here we are to honor that vote, to give it importance, and to protect the club’s assets. So, this last instance, which is the assembly, we will use it to clear up those doubts that today are significant and which we believe are causing great harm to the club right now and for the future.”

“At first, our purpose is to go and ask questions, because that’s what the assembly is for, and it’s something very important for all institutions. We are not driven by hate, we are not enemies of anyone, we are not acting as opposition just for the sake of it, or to show off, or just to be opposition for life. We are motivated by a greater union, by a lot of projects that we talked about before the elections and that people approved with their vote, and we have to bring that responsibility and seriousness to the assembly today.”

So we cannot go in with any decision already made when, in reality, things might be resolved during the assembly. Now, if you ask me if I’m optimistic, I’m not that optimistic because we already requested that information and it never arrived, and we have reports that the information doesn’t even exist. So, based on that, we cannot go against what the people have asked of us.

And ultimately, the people have spoken… Here there are two very clear models. The officialist model is completely worn out, and the model of change, of growth, because that’s the way football is going, that’s the way the country is going. It’s on a path of renewal, of growth, and that’s what we are proposing.

And from there, we will ask, we’ll see if in this last instance they can resolve these significant concerns, because they end up highlighting much of the deficit the club currently has and much of the poor management that we warned about before the elections.

And here there are three very important issues, which today have no explanation: the President’s family debt, how the debt was updated, why it was updated the way it was, where is the record that allowed for its update and to finalize that huge number of 1.4 billion pesos in the balance sheet.

I would also ask, hand on heart, this now as a fan, why he waited until the first day of the next fiscal year to make that update and didn’t do it when he already knew about it, just to show a surplus of a million and try to get a few more votes. I would ask that to see why he lied to the Unión supporters. (7:22) This debt, which today in the club’s hallways people say there’s still a lot left to pay the President, we have records from 2019 where it is stated, signed by the club’s accountant and where he acknowledges that there are no loans, no assignments, no donations from the Spahn family, so today any number is just being put on the table and that cannot be allowed, unless it is justified, and up to today it has not been justified.

The issue of the radio frequencies is something that will have to be explained to all Unión fans; it’s the most important sale the club has had in this fiscal year. It can’t be that it doesn’t appear in the balance sheet when everyone thought it had been collected or assumed it had been collected, and now it turns out it’s not included in the balance. And then there’s the issue of suppliers, another very serious matter where 25% of the club’s suppliers are club directors, there’s a gigantic conflict of interest where you go and ask for quotes, comparisons to see if one is really better than the other, and there’s nothing. So we assume it ends up being a business for them because when you offer your service, you need to have a comparison to show the member and say, look, I’m giving you the sandbag because it’s cheaper than the competition and here’s the quote.”

Well, we’ve been asking for those things and they haven’t been provided. And as I said before, these three issues are fundamental, there are huge management irregularities, administrative expenses increased by 100%. But, putting aside the bad management, which we already knew was happening and that’s why we warned about it before the elections, as I said at the beginning, we have to live up to the club’s history, to the trust that Unión supporters have given us, and show them that we are serious and respectful in defending the club’s assets.

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