Rubiales, live | This has been the press conference on the audios with Piqué

13:02So far the appearance of Luis Rubiales.

13:00“We speak directly with AFE and it is very normal when someone negotiates a calendar to speak with soccer players, with the union within that it is a private conversation.”

12:58“All this is a hunt prepared by distorting reality, especially if there are false headlines.”

12:56“I want to leave here wanting all of you to be clear that all this is legal and that it has passed the filters.”

12:46“We have considered leaving the telephones out of crowded meetings, but I don’t remember doing it. I don’t want to frivolize this. I always speak as I am. I talk about ‘Geri’ because I have known him for years, I have come to play against him when he was 19 years old and was at Zaragoza”.

12:45“In the Champions League, if Real Madrid or Barça win it, they can win 100-120 million euros. If a club has finished fourth or fifth in the League, which has not competed in the Champions League in recent years and ends it winning, I would only earn 40-50 million. It’s not just being a champion, but also what the club means. That happens in all competitions, but it seems that some people only care about ours.”

12:38“All the clubs have been delighted with the change of the Super Cup. There is a club that would receive, at least, two million to go; before it would be 300 or 400 thousand euros. We do not intend to change, it is much more benevolent than other distributions”

12:38“Andorra? Football is wonderful and the sensations are not always the right ones. Piqué explained that he had a fatal arbitration and that if it were the other way it would have gone up. I always defend arbitration. Because no matter what happens they never go to receive a pat on the back. I think there are people who think that referees have to be perfect. In football, we all fail and even so we have the refereeing establishment with the most international referees. What can they do wrong? Yes . The arbitration establishment is independent. You will see how it will not appear in the life of any communication with any arbitrator saying that it favors or harms someone. Whoever makes that insinuation… I reserve the qualification “

12:16“I insist. Not only Piqué, more footballers called me. Speaking with the coach I told him that several called me and he said “Thank you very much for telling me, Luis. I’ll do what you want.” And he didn’t take it. We won a silver.”

12:05“You are journalists and the Police are the Police. Everyone can answer that question. Ethical or unethical, the question is not that. If an intermediary works and charges one of the parties 10% of an operation. Is he within the market? Yes. Is it legal? Yes. He was the one who introduced us to that partner and he negotiated that possibility. Why if he charges 10% more or less, I don’t know if he works with LaLiga? Because he can’t do it Saudi Arabia. We are delighted with that possibility and Kosmos brought it to us.”

12:01“Piqué is the one who introduced us to that partner and he has negotiated that possibility. If the Saudi Arabian Federation pays him that…”

11:49“I qualify as a mafia whoever has used that information for a spurious interest. I know who benefits. I beg you, do not make a mistake in the question, I do not charge commissions. The treasurer’s proposal after a study was to try the least harmful for the Federation. That they want to change it, that they change it. The same is what I propose. It seems that the other does not bother. I would like to see myself if someone else had my salary”.

11:48“I repeat that I have not charged illegal or legal commissions.”

11:37“Castaño’s question wasn’t if Piqué had agreed to charge a commission. I didn’t know if he had charged or not.”

11:32“Stealing the audio from my cell phone is a mafia action. I don’t think I’ll get to the point of shooting myself and throwing myself into a gutter, but why don’t they put something in my cell phone or put a sack of cocaine in the trunk?”

11:30“Depending on who plays a final, they get paid more and that has repercussions on the variable. Historically there are three or four teams that earn more. In any case, at the salary level, they are minimum amounts.”

11:28“There is a mafia here that wants to put an end to the Federation. It is in the hands of the Police”

11:26“I am not going to reformulate the competition. The economic distribution is much more benevolent with the modest club than the criteria that the League has”

11:24“Like another one who asked me also appears and it is not Piqué. There were more who asked me. He announced a long time ago that he did not want to return and I spoke with Luis de la Fuente so that he knew who had called me. It is common when one is He’s a great player and he wants to come back. Then Luis made a very different decision.”

11:23“I refer to the results. Whoever wants to go to the national team should not call me. Those who have called me have not gone”

11:20“We do not violate any code of ethics because we have no business relationship with Kosmos”

11:19“I am going to continue working for Spanish football. The management is being good”

11:19“I have no doubt that I am on the good side given what they have done with my mobile”

11:17“The amounts of Real Madrid are below what was published. Gerard transmits an idea as he goes along. We lowered those at the top a little and those at the top we raised a little to make it more harmonious. In other competitions there are differences of 30 or 40 million euros, in the Champions League the same and in the competitions of the Federation the same, because there is a sporting history, a commercial interest…”

11:16“The president of the CSD may not like it. I respect him. The point is that we have overcome our own filters by which we are governed.”

11:13“Yes, there are other footballers who have proposed business to the Federation”

11:12Rubiales speaks again. “The commission agents are necessary and that is why they exist. We did not arrive in Saudi Arabia, I admit it. Once we arrived, we negotiated ourselves.”

11:08Andreu Camps explains that in “the salary there is a fixed part and another variable. There is a reading that is that the more income is charged, the more is charged. The other is a perverse reading. In the contract it does not say that if Barça or Madrid do not go, they are paid less. We talk about categories”.

11:06“I am open to talking to Cholo whenever I want. I have explained the salary”

11:05“As they have behaved with my cell phone, I cannot guarantee that one day they will not put a sack of cocaine in my car”

11:03“I have a salary structure that the treasurer proposed as a result of previous work and has an explanation. In Spain there are two models. We have the model that exists in LaLiga, where the president who earns €3.5 million, there is a large salary fixed and a small variable. LaLiga negotiates TV rights, but on its own resources it generates much less income than the Federation. The other model is that the fixed salary was lower and the variable was linked to management. Thus it was not chained to the Federation to a great salary of 3.2 or 1. I feel well paid, but when I arrived the Federation generated more than 100 million and now it generates more than 400. If in the future they want to change, they will talk about whether they want me to change. a reason of honesty and not to chain the RFEF to a large salary. If the management was worse, so was the salary. I ask the media to talk about the crime that I have suffered. They practically do not talk about that crime”.

10:59“I do not charge commissions, neither legal nor illegal”

10:56“Andorra? In the Federation there is a territorial criterion and Andorra was the only one from the Catalan Federation that bid for the place. There was another in the Valencian Community and another team in Castilla y León said that they sent the transfer and it did not arrive. In fact there was a challenge and the CSD validated the operation”

10:55“The Qatar contract is not such a contract. It is an agreement for 33 million euros that had to be validated but it was not validated”

10:52“Find out, the Federation does not pay anything to Kosmos, who pays Kosmos is Saudi Arabia”

10:51“Regarding Piqué, we have those responsible for good governance, who told us if the relationship is between Arabia and Kosmos, you don’t have to do the consultation. If they tell me and Andreu that there is no conflict, then there is no conflict. Point and final. What do we talk about an ethical debate when the information has been taken from my mobile? That here I have photos with my daughters and conversations with my friends…”

10:50“Kosmos proposes us a change of format and I already proposed in the electoral campaign. They begin to work and we speak with the United States and Saudi Arabia, we speak with Qatar, China, India and some proposal came from Africa. Finally, when they come with a possibility of business they are told that the economic relationship will not be with the negotiation. The RFEF does not pay a single euro of commission to anyone. We are talking about 400 million euros for Spanish football. 50% for the clubs that participate and 50% for the most modest football. There is not much more to tell here. We have counted it publicly in the Assemblies and it has been voted on without any votes against”.

10:48“Hopefully there are more and more footballers like Piqué, who are educated, want to be entrepreneurs or do something other than play football.”

10:47“The operation is legal. Said by the very medium that has published it, so we enter the ethical plane.”

10:46“This has not caused me any surprise, but everything that has been done has been communicated. This scoop of this contract is an outdated contract. It is a contract that is no longer operational, because in the Assembly at the end of 20 a new relationship was approved that It will be ten years that allowed Arabia to pay 40 million playing the Super Cup in Andalusia”

10:45“The Federation has not paid and will not pay any commission. Kosmos’ relationship is with Saudi Arabia.”

10:43“The contract that has been published is no longer the one that currently governs. In the 2020 assembly, a new ten-year contract entered”

10:42“I know who benefits this and you know it too”

10:41“I have accumulated 20-25 complaints. It is a campaign of continuous wear”

10:40“I have suffered continuous attacks since I am president”

10:39“I have not spoken before because I needed the authorization from Saudi Arabia and I received it last night.”

10:39“The real problem is that information has been illegally stolen from my phone”

10:38“I have a great indignation for all the falsehoods that are being poured”

10:36The press conference begins
Louis Rubiales.

10:35Still missing
Louis Rubiales.

10:31The appearance of the president of the
RFEF, Luis Rubiales.

10:21Beside
Luis Rubiales will also appear in the press room of the
Las Rozas Football City the
Secretary General of the RFEF,
Andreu Camps.

10:15Good morning. In approximately a quarter of an hour the press conference of the president of the
RFEF, Luis Rubiales, in which he plans to give explanations for all the mess generated as a result of the audios leaked and published by
‘The confidential’ from a conversation with Gerard Piqué about the
Spain Supercup.