Today’s the day Valencia CF has finally resumed their long-awaited works of the Nou Mestalla venue when construction was suddenly stopped due to financial problems coupled with ownership changes since 2009 having originally promised to get things done throughout the last decade.
But hey, following a host of revisions even as realistic as possible through ways and means, Valencia sought some much-needed funding lately from Goldman Sachs with their refinancing deal as well as La Liga’s minority shareholder CVC.
Now it’s on the club to turn this around from an abandoned field into a state-of-the-art stadium that everyone has been long waiting for having first announced their plans to move from their still current Mestalla venue nearly 20 years ago (2006).
Yes, have heard a few times about Nou Mestalla being able to host the World Athletics Championships by building a large surface over the lower-tier stand in order to make an oval running track and then break it down by going back into football mode once it’s over – take note of that West Ham with their London Stadium from the 2012 Summer Olympics as they can still host Athletics but maybe make the permanent lower-tier structures more closer to do with Football.
However, it’s still too way early to say other than a bare-bones like structure they’ve built so far between 2007-09; if so, the earliest they could do is years after the FIFA World Cup during the 2030s.
So much has been happening since then but good to hear that Valencia CF is still on track in spite of their current league position (19th) as well as their poor owners who doesn’t seem interested in this project by choice but decided to finish off the project anyway out of necessity where die-hard fans still want Peter Lim and his group to go home in Singapore.
Not only the machines have now arrived back into the half-built building, the club also unveiled a logo for the new stadium itself including a 3D model version too for those who want to see it and it’s free of charge anytime between 9-5 weekdays.
Then we’ll see once the works are finally done by the summer of 2027, we could see Nou Mestalla being named one of the final venues for the co-hosted 2030 World Cup by Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
It’s still early days yet again but at such a crucial time when there’s a World Cup around the corner, Valencia has taken the first step once more with a still a long way to go before they can feel like home at Nou Mestalla in the hope of challenging Real Madrid & Barcelona for silverware domestically again + European Football.
