MADRID, 14 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, has assured this Tuesday that the “greatest ambassador” of the European Super League, with Real Madrid and FC Barcelona as founding clubs, “is not Florentino Pérez or Joan Laporta, is Javier Tebas”, president of LaLiga.
“I think the same as (Aleksander) Ceferin -president of UEFA-, we have the best competition, the Champions League. It can be improved, but within football. UEFA is the government of football, the ideal is to do it as it has been up to now. UEFA has the support of the EU, because we have accepted the associative model, we must not break it. I respect other ways of thinking, it may coincide, but not in the forms,” Rubiales commented at the Europa Press Sports Breakfasts, sponsored by DAZN, Lotteries of the State, Repsol and Unicaja.
The president acknowledged that Real Madrid and Barça “are two very important clubs”, but stressed that he does not “agree with them” regarding the proposal for the new format of the Super League. “It would be important to get them back to the cause and participate within UEFA for better football. The greatest ambassador of the Super League is not Florentino (Pérez) or (Joan) Laporta, it is Tebas,” Rubiales said.
“You cannot give a loan of 40 million to a club, ask them to pay it back in 40 years and also keep 10 percent of the TV rights. That makes the poorest even poorer and the rich poorer “In relation to the Premier. In the end, LaLiga is getting poorer, we have to solve it now,” he added about Tebas’s criticism of the Super League and the League competition model in Spain to compete with other domestic competitions.