Dubious auction at the construction of the new Spotify Camp Nou »Barcelona has chosen the company with the lowest rating!
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Monday, October 13, 2025, 20:08 / Updated Monday, October 13, 2025 20:11
The management of Barcelona chose to modernize Spotify Camp Nou the Turkish company “Limak”, which did not start favorite for the project, on the contrary. And the decision came against the recommendations of the experts, the project being initially suspended by the commission that evaluated the candidate companies to win the tender.
The journal I would write that the joint commission, which included members of the club and a group of experts outside Barcelona (GPO ingeniería), never considered the Turkish company as a favorite for the project.
“A few days after Limak was designated to receive the work, Jordi Llauradó, executive director responsible for Espai Barça, resigned without any explanation.
Limak has submitted its offer although it did not meet the minimum requirements
“The irregularities, which the Catalunya serum radio station explains also through an extended documentation,” reveals that The Turkish company signed the contract until after the president of the club and the president of the company were in the stands at a match Galatasaray – Barcelona, played in Istanbul ”.
The company submitted its offer, despite the fact that it did not meet enough minimum requirements, established during the time when Josep Maria Bartomeu was the president of Barcelona.
One of these unfulfilled requirements for the project were as the selected construction company to have built a stadium in Europe with a capacity of at least 25,000 spectators.
“Limak did not comply with the initial terms of the project, nor did he participate in a temporary association of enterprises (UTE), which involves Catalan companies. To solve the problem, Torroella ingeniería-arquitectura and JG ingenieros later joined the project ”, the source quoted.
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He won because he guaranteed the maximum speed in construction!
However, Limak won the project, because it guaranteed the maximum speed in construction. The Turkish company had 16 points in addition to the second place company, the advance corresponding to Limak's insurance that the stadium will be completed in record time, a term that has been exceeded for a long time.
“The board of directors of the club, through the vice -president María Elena Fort, explained that the construction company will be sanctioned with a fine of one million euros for each day of delay in the delivery of the works.
Limak would be owed to Barcelona 300 million euros until today. Amount that the club has not requested, nor does it intend to request, given that the delay in completing the works is for reasons “Unpredictable”, as bureaucratic procedures with the Local City Council, or “Force majeure”such as increasing the price of building materials and delaying their delivery due to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
According to Ser Catalunya, the company could not be exempted from the payment of the expected fine, as the contract specifies that the delay in the delivery of materials, for regardless of the reason, does not constitute a case of force majeure.
Image from the drone of the new Spotify Camp Nou / Photo: FC Barcelona
“Faced with this urgent situation, Barcelona has decided to accelerate work by hiring other construction companiesto deal with certain parts of the project. For example, the construction of the changing rooms is made by a company other than Limak, ”writes As.
