Billionaire São Paulo? Massis quietly negotiates bank backing | OneFootball

A piece of news has been stirring things up behind the scenes at São Paulo since last week.

A billion-real investment proposal is said to have been presented. A major Brazilian financial institution went to Morumbi to formally express interest in making a large-scale financial contribution.

The information was first reported by the portal ‘Tricolor na Web’ and gained further details published by the ‘Blog do São Paulo’. Sources from São Paulo’s top brass confirmed it to AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR.

The meeting was attended by club president Harry Massis, members of the board, and advisor Marcelo Pepe, described as the one who brokered the approach between the bank and Tricolor and as a sort of right-hand man to the president, directly responsible for making some decisions in the current administration.

The negotiations, which had been treated as a rumor on social media and in the club’s hallways for a few weeks, took on an official tone with the in-person meeting.

Marcelo Pepe’s active role in handling the potential investor generated a strong reaction in São Paulo’s internal politics. Some believe it is a move aimed at boosting the standing of the ruling group ahead of the presidential elections at the end of the year, and that nothing concrete will come of it.

Behind the scenes, advisors and club members began speculating about Pepe’s name as part of major tickets in the year-end election. The deal’s broker is now being mentioned as a possible vice-presidential candidate, either on a ticket supporting Harry Massis’s reelection or in a possible candidacy by Adilson Alves Martins, legal advisor and an influential figure in the ruling group.

So far, São Paulo’s board has not officially commented on the amounts involved or on the conditions required by the financial institution for the investment to go through. And the matter has been denied.

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