Pedro Daniel: Atlético debt, £520m funding, solution by April

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·26 février 2026

Pedro Daniel: Atlético debt, £520m funding, solution by April

The CEO of Atlético, Pedro Daniel, gave an exclusive interview to the HG Play channel early Thursday evening (26th) and opened up about one of the club’s hottest topics at the moment: the nature of the club’s debt and the plan set out to resolve it in the coming months.

Officially inaugurated in the position in January of this year, the executive detailed the current management’s financial strategy and explained that the immediate focus is the so-called “reprofiling” of the bank debt — currently considered the most damaging to the club’s operations.

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Bank debt is the priority

According to Pedro Daniel, the promised injection of funds ranges between R$ 500 million and R$ 520 million and has a practically defined purpose: to pay off or restructure the club’s short-term bank debts.

As part of our plan, we are reprofiling the debt. The (injection) of R$ 500 million is basically for the payment of bank debts. This is the debt that burdens us, the short-term and very expensive debt. It’s like an overdraft; we need to resolve this.

According to the executive, the current amount of bank debt is slightly over R$ 600 million. Therefore, the goal is to use the new injection of funds to ease cash flow and drastically reduce the impact of interest on the club’s day-to-day operations.

Other debts exist, but are refinanced

Pedro Daniel made a point of highlighting that Atlético has other financial obligations, such as real estate financing and tax debts, but emphasized that these have already been refinanced and, at this moment, do not carry the same weight as the bank commitments.

Do we have other debts, like real estate financing? Yes, we do! Do we have tax debts? We do! But they are refinanced. But this one (bank debts) hits us hard. It takes money from our entire operation. So, within what we’ve planned for this year, we need to reprofile. The injection of R$ 500 or R$ 520 million is exactly to eliminate this debt. Today, we’re saying that the value of this bank debt is a little over R$ 600 million.

Why hasn’t the injection of funds hit the account yet?

Another point addressed in the interview was the delay in the promised injection of funds from the Menin family being finalized. The CEO explained that the process involves complex negotiations with the creditor financial institutions: “The process now is to renegotiate with all the banks. That’s why it’s not just a matter of the R$ 500 million hitting the account and it’s done. People ask me why the delay, but that’s it, there’s a renegotiation with all the banks. So we called all the banks to discuss the payment method, whether the debt will go to another CNPJ, anyway, that’s why this process is more bureaucratic. Our big goal is to have this resolved by April!”, he concluded.

The board’s expectation is to complete the process by April, which would mark an important milestone in Atlético’s financial reorganization in 2026. If the plan comes to fruition, the club could significantly reduce the impact of bank interest and gain greater budget predictability for the rest of the season.

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