Guerracivilismo has been installed at Sevilla Fútbol Club for years and that is no exaggeration. A battle that pits a father (José María Del Nido Benavente) and a son (José María del Nido Carrasco) against each other, fighting to take over the club’s presidential chair. The second, current vice president, will become the new president of Nervión next Monday if his father does not prevent this, something he has been fighting for for months. A milestone that can be an end point, a turning point or just a point and that continues in this bloody competition that the Sevilla family is experiencing.
Del Nido Benavente, who previously held the presidency of Pizjuán between May 27, 2002 and December 9, 2013, has applied to the Commercial Court No. 2 of Seville for the approval of precautionary measures He is demanding a vote on the dismissal of the current board he chairs Jose Castro and to enable you to vote with your interests and those you represent. Something that he has not managed to do so far and in the last few hours it has leaked that the judge Del Nido Benavente will refuse the precautionary measures.
The former Sevilla boss was and was implicated in Marbella City Council’s corruption schemes in the 2000s sentenced to seven years in prison for corruptionwhere he worked between 2014 and 2017. Today he is a shareholder and CEO of Utrera Sevillistas de Nervión, SA, a company through which he owns almost 35% of the share capital of the Sevillista football club.
The crux of the matter, point 12
The key to everything, again, is knowing whether From the nest Father will be able to take control of the assembly table, which would allow him to do and undo anything by himself voting to disband the council and appoint a new one. To do this, you must proceed to item 12 of the agenda, which refers to the “dismissal, for cause, of those who are to act as president and secretary of the general meeting of shareholders and the appointment of a new president and secretary”. Of the meeting’. The judge can refuse to vote about the removal of the council, but could comply with Del Nido Sr.’s express request that the assembly vote on a new table. And therein lies the crux of the matter.
Amid this legal back and forth, Del Nido Carrasco has gone on the offensive and ensured that “I never betrayed my father and the only thing I have done is to protect the interests of the Sevilla Fútbol Club,” after which he revealed his father’s plan to sell the club to his American partners from “777 Partners.”
“He (José María Del Nido Benavente) signed an agreement with the Americans (777 partners) on July 13, 2023, after which it agrees to sell three thousand shares at 2,850 euros per share. And it agrees to sell 125 shares every three months and agree on governance Finally, they agree to a capital increase if they return to Sevilla and remain with Sevilla with this increase, “With the actions of many Sevilla fans who would not have participated in this capital increase and then with the sale of the club to make more money,” denounced the man who will become president of Sevilla next Monday if nothing Strange things happen. The former president of Seville has started it a message to small shareholdersstrangely enough, to the same people whom he tried to disenfranchise in recent meetings and whom he is now asking for their support.
The one who was a lawyer Jesus Gil And Julian Muñoz has warned: “If the Sevillistas want a revolution like the one I did in 2002.” , If the Sevillistas want a catharsis and that we go back to bed in the evening thinking about what my Sevilla did this evening to me tomorrow morning To keep active, they have two people: or José María del Nido Benavente or José María del Nido Benavente. There is no more”.
The lawyer promised that “I’m going to build a new Sánchez-Pizjuán, not that I’m going to sell it. The Sánchez-Pizjuán is in Nervión and will remain in Nervión.” I haven’t decided yet what I will do with the sports city, because maybe we will start a project for a sports city that instead of 25 hectares will have 60, 70, 80, 90 or 100.”
The new Seville would be led by… Monchi
In sports, Del Nido Benavente promised a revolution, but he clings to the past and mentions Monchi as the name: “If he had the opportunity to terminate his contract, which I understand he doesn’t have, he would of course bring him back Monchi. For me he was the best sporting director in the club’s history, but also always a shoemaker for your shoes, who gives you the keys to the farmhouse where you arrive… There are many areas in the club where you have to dominate and you dedicate “It seems clear that Del Nido Sr. would completely revamp the club’s current structure if the precautionary measures were successful. which would mean saying goodbye to the sports director Victor Orta and the technician Diego Alonso.
In reality, it doesn’t matter whether the next president is Del Nido Sr. or Del Nido Jr. because Alonso’s future is already predetermined. In the last few hours Sevilla has been studying the coaching market to replace the Uruguayan, a personal bet from Orta that Castro and Del Nido Carrasco accepted with skepticism. Today they have one win after eight games, three defeats and four draws in the cup against Quintanar. A pitiful baggage that is much poorer than that of Mendilibar and Sampaoland of course that Lopetegui.
A worrying panorama for a Sevilla that continues to be on the rocks in sports and has a more than worrying economic situation accumulated losses of 86.2 million since 2020. Sevilla is a volcano that threatens to erupt next Monday at the club meeting, where father and son will fight bitterly for the presidential seat, which will be vacated by José Castro, completely overwhelmed by the situation..
This civil war climate ultimately had an impact on the dressing room and on the pitch, with the team ending up at the bottom of the table and on the verge of being eliminated from the Champions League. (This Wednesday, life is at stake against PSV) Five coaches running around their bench in eight months and a club that doesn’t stop shrinking while its neighbors from La Palmera run around Europe and even celebrate a few titles, far from the Cainite hustle and bustle that is in these months in the streets of the Nervión district prevails.