MADRID, 20 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, believes that “it is not ethical” for the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, and the FC Barcelona player and CEO of Kosmos, Gerard Piqué, to negotiate commissions to organize the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, a tournament for which they will try to “charge more” in future editions if it is true that other participating teams had a higher cache than the rojiblancos.
“It doesn’t seem ethical to me, but commissions are not prohibited anywhere in the world. If you tell me that they have charged 8 million, we will try to charge more next year or the next,” Cerezo said this Wednesday in statements to Ser Deportivos collected by Europe Press.
The rojiblanco leader stressed that he could “only” talk about his contract, with conditions that they accepted. “We have gone to Arabia twice, we have not found out what one or the other earns, it will be a matter of the RFEF,” he said, after assuring that they will analyze everything that has been said these days “to find out what the problem is.”
“We haven’t seen the contracts. If that’s true, we’ll raise the rate,” stressed Cerezo, who made it clear that no Atlético de Madrid footballer is in a situation similar to Gerard Piqué’s.
Rubiales and Piqué would have agreed a commission of 24 million euros to take the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, according to a series of audios between the two published by ‘El Confidencial’, which say that the RFEF introduced two clauses in the contract to force Saudi Arabia to pay Kosmos four million euros a year as a ‘success fee’, a figure that, if not paid, would mean that the Super Cup would no longer be played in the Asian country.
The first edition of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia was played in January 2020, with Real Madrid, FC Barcelona (who would receive 8 million each), Atlético de Madrid and Valencia as protagonists. Rubiales himself assured at the time that Kosmos had intervened in the negotiations with the Arab leaders, but that he had not paid any commission to the company.