On June 1, Joan Laporta received Javier Tebas at his home, with whom he shared a table and tablecloth. On June 6, LaLiga gave the green light to Barça’s viability plan for the next two years. On June 9, the Blaugrana entity asked to get out of the lawsuit that it shared with Madrid and Athletic against the agreement between the majority of clubs and the CVC investment fund. Barça has let go of the hand of Florentino Pérez in one of the great workhorses that has had the Barcelona board of directors in tension with the employers since the summer of 2021. In just eight days, three episodes that can be interpreted as Relations between Barça and LaLiga have entered into a truce, in a diplomatic way.
Sources from the Blaugrana club explained to this newspaper that the gesture of withdrawing the lawsuit does not mean, far from it, that Barça intends to join the CVC agreement. However, from Barcelona it is pointed out that the will is to reach out to the rest of the Spanish football clubs in case alternative formulas can be sought and, above all, they try to withdraw the lawsuit so as not to harm the teams that did sign the entente in the event that justice invalidates the agreement.
Barcelona does not have any more troubles at this time, while it is waiting for UEFA to confirm in the coming days whether or not it has a final place in the Champions League after the investigation that the European body opened for the Negreira case. At the same time, they have not made more noise than necessary in recent months as regards the Super League. Juventus has asked Barça and Madrid to get out of the project even before the European justice issues a verdict on the matter.
Barcelona’s decision to withdraw from the lawsuit against LaLiga by CVC came the same day that a sentence was pronounced against the employer, considering the agreement reached with the fund in the assembly of August 12, 2021 illegal. of first instance court number 47 in Madrid fully agreed with Barça, the white team and Athletic. LaLiga will appeal this sentence but ensures that it does not question the substance of the agreement, but a formal defect that was already corrected in December 2021 in another assembly of the employers’ association. At that summit, a definitive agreement was reached with CVC for 1,994 million in exchange for the value of 9% of the audiovisual rights for 50 years. It was supported by 37 of the 42 clubs, four voted against and one abstained.
The turns that the ball gives. In its day, Barça could not retain Messi because it considered the agreement between the teams with CVC to be abusive to his interests and now the club does not want to go ahead with its legal dispute for diplomatic and strategic reasons.
His feasibility plan has received the go-ahead from LaLiga but his salary mass is still 250 million above what is owed, which has prevented, in practice, now addressing the signing of Messi. He has a lot of work to do to be able to sign with the 1-1 rule and, for now, he is subject to the 40% rule (for every ten million he sells, he can invest four).
At the same time that Barça softens its relations with LaLiga, it stops embracing Madrid. Until the outbreak of the Negreira case and Florentino Pérez’s decision that his club appear as a private prosecution, both directives had maintained an idyllic entente. But now the pace has changed. In the European Super League they still hold together.
