Casares under fire, São Paulo pledges transparency drive | OneFootball

Nothing like an institutional crisis to put things in order at São Paulo.

Living his worst moment in five years as president of São Paulo, seeing allies opposed to the investment fund and participation for Cotia, running a real risk of suffering his first major defeat in the Deliberative Council, and with the fans habitually cursing him at all games since the elimination in the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores, President Julio Casares decided to open up more information at the Morumbi club and promised a series of measures to make the communication of what happens internally more transparent.

Officially, however, the claim is that the Casares administration does not want to be accused of hypocrisy for demanding transparency from CBF in the release of VAR audios and not taking the same type of attitude within its own house.

The promise is that from now on, the club will start to disclose the values of transfers, entries and exits, as is done in the annual balance sheet. In addition, the commitment is to issue bi-monthly reports on the financial condition.

The big news for the fan, however, is a greater presence of the press in everyday life. São Paulo promises to open a training day for journalists starting next week, even if it is only part of the activity, like the warm-up.

In the transparency package, there is also the promise from the Tricolor board to publish weekly medical bulletins, as it recently did with Lucas and Oscar.

In the midst of all this, there is also the measure that was a real clamor from everyone: Casares himself or another director will give a monthly press conference to discuss matters.

It should be noted that some of the promised measures were Casares' campaign promise, such as the constant financial statements.

About the presence of the press at the CT, the club promised several times since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. There were some brief periods, it's true, but they were always short spaces, weeks that did not complete a month. Almost always the one 'guilty' for keeping reporters out of the Barra Funda CT was the coach. Rogério Ceni, Dorival Júnior and Luis Zubeldía were some of those who would have determined that beat reporters did not follow the training. But the information, of course, was never officially confirmed.

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