LaLiga and the defenders of the European Super League project (Barcelona, ??Real Madrid and Juventus) continue to be engaged in a dialectical battle in defense of their interests a few days after the first decision of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in this regard, which is expected for December 15. Both the League and its opponents scheduled events in Madrid this morning. In the case of the League, Javier Tebas, the president of the League, made public a KPMG report stating that “the European Super League project would reduce the income of the Spanish League by 55%. And additionally the The loss of value of the clubs that did not play in the Super League would reach 64%”.
Javier Tebas explained his opposition to the European Super League project, which he continues to describe as a “gathering at a bar at five in the morning”, with his natural vehemence: “Real Madrid and Barcelona have become big in the League. They are what they are thanks to her. Now they can’t kick the other clubs in the ass”.
For the Huesca lawyer who runs the League, the numbers presented by the European Super League are smoke: “It is true that in the first two or three years they could earn 200 million, but in the third year they would also be in losses. Here we are “I’m talking about the governance of football and it can’t be that those who are in charge are those who have the most assets to have even more assets. It’s as if the banks were in charge of the states,” he stressed.
Tebas assured that whatever happens in the courts on the 15th, the League will continue to fight in defense of its interests and that it does not see any predisposition in UEFA towards the Super League project. “It’s one thing to talk; we talk to everyone, but to negotiate nothing. What are they going to negotiate? That we ruin ourselves a little?”
Thebes also maintains that the Super League hides the format of its competition project and that it continues to be closed. Regarding the non-attendance of Barcelona and Madrid at the League meeting scheduled for the 7th in Dubai, the president of the League did not give it much importance: “The other 40 clubs are going. There are many teams that do not have the financial strength to travel to places where there is investment and sponsors. That’s why we take them”.
In the act scheduled in Madrid, that of the defenders of the European Super League, Luis Alonso and Fernando Irurzun, who are taking the Super League lawsuit against UEFA and FIFA, explained what, in their opinion, UEFA’s abuse of power. In turn, Bernd Reichart, CEO of A22, the company that promotes the project, explained the listening process in which he finds himself and analyzed the last meeting with UEFA: “Reluctance to change can be human. They live in a very comfortable situation, without competition and without business risk, but more seriously, they live without the need to innovate. They live off the sweat of the clubs, which they don’t involve in decision-making.”
“A22 -he maintains- has created a problem that they did not have, because we intend to improve the current competition. And we must be able to work freely. They say that no contribution from outside the system is necessary. But it is the clubs that provide the value, the spectacle and the emotion; they must be the ones who manage their own destiny. The leagues are managed by the teams and not by their federations, why can’t that be raised to a European level?”, he wonders.
For Luis Alonso and Fernando Irurzun, “the European Parliament will not be able to make a European anti-Super League law. The Parliament and the Council will adopt measures of promotion, but not of exclusion. Any legislative action will be appealable to the same court that has legislated against it. The CJEU is the supreme body and parliaments are subject to its authority”.
