Jaume Roures: “The Super League did not speak to any TV”

Jaume roures (Barcelona, ​​1950) is the founder and sole administrator of Mediapro, the company that produces football in Spain and one of the main audiovisual production companies in the world. Roures is, therefore, a voice more than authorized to judge what has passed with the fiasco of the Super league, a competition that already in its day predicted that “I was not going to have much of a journey, I think more last four days“These statements are from last Sunday, yesterday in conversation with this newspaper the Catalan businessman it was ratified in this position and assured that no major television operator supported this initiative.

“The project Was born dead because there was no financial cushion behind a big television operator. The market for Rights of TV going down and that is why it is surprising that they spoke of those millionaire figures, “he says.

Roures explains that “in Italy last week the television rights of the Series A for 300 million less that the last contract and that Mr. Agnelli had to be very clear about. On France, the rights of the Champions amount to 380 million And I do not see anywhere that the new product is more attractive than the previous one and that is why more is paid by televisions. What's more, I know that this initiative he threw himself forward without having spoken with any great operator“.

Roures continues reporting that “Many of the actors in the commercialization of rights they called me the last days to ask me who was behind this. There was no one. In fact, one of the candidates on the rumor mill what was Amazon He has already come out making a statement to say that they have nothing to do with it and that they do not even think they are.

For the founder of Mediapro “Florentino Pérez and the rest of equipment who have followed him in this initiative have seriously wrong. The president of Real Madrid confused europe with the Bernabéu box and in Europe things work in a very different way. “

Among the errors highlighted by Roures is that of “the staging of the competition, what should of to have been something solemn with all the presidents with their European cups won behind and not in 'El Chiringuito' and I also do not understand that they want to charge more for a competition that eliminates a tie, when the sauce of this tournament is the round trip matches. They have done it fatal, a absolute disaster“.