Economic Vice President of FC Barcelona, Eduard Romeu, went through the microphones of the program ‘El món a RAC1’ to grant an extensive interview where he reviewed all the current economic issues of the Barça club. Among many other aspects, he pointed out to the president of LaLiga: “Barca’s fault is the situation they have, but this man (Thebes) is co-responsible for Barça’s situation. He has looked the other way and has allowed the current situation. He said amen to everything against the interests of Barça.”
In another order, about the signing of Robert Lewandowski pointed out that “Currently the norm is from 1 to 3 for the financial ‘fair play’. If we are able to get three times more than the cost of the token plus the amortization, it can be signed, but we must first do the job of close levers, if we don’t do it, as we are at the moment, by regulation it is not possible to sign him”.
LALIGA CVC AGREEMENT
“From the economic point of view, this CVC-LaLiga agreement entails a series of requirements that we cannot accept. The word controller could be appropriate when they tell you that they mark what you can and cannot do, the communication policy that you must do and the people from the clubs that they must represent in LaLiga”.
“We with CVC have a parallel offer where the amount equivalent to almost half of the term enters us. Other funds and CVC offer you the possibility of against this ten-odd percent of the TV rights instead of 50 years to 25 years CVC has a conflict of interest because it is a member of LaLiga and is willing to do so as long as you sign the other one. But I can dispense with CVC and go to another fund.”
“The agreement is a measure to equalize between clubs below. LaLiga intends to consolidate a position of one person, of Tebas. All that was missing was for us to go through the Tebas funnel again, there is a moment when we have to say enough and we have said enough. We have said enough with the agreement that is now on the table.”
“If we agree with CVC without LaLiga, will we also have financial ‘fair play’ available? It is the great discussion and it is the point that we have to take in parallel. It implies an arbitrary decision by LaLiga. forces you to do something that is worse when the result is the same. They come to tell you that if you sign this you will have this and if you don’t sign it you won’t.”
BLM SALE
“Now we have to buy time. That’s why we ask the partner to enable the levers, to enable us BLM and TV rights, we will choose the best lever so that the numbers are the best possible.
Right now the offer of 275 million for 49% of BLM we do not like. There will be a repurchase right, it is one of the conversations we are having.”
“What we do is have different levers enabled to have more negotiating power. We are very close to closing several things.”
“For more than 10% we would not like to sell the rights.”
The figure may be quite equivalent to that of the CVC-LaLiga agreement, what we do not want is to mortgage 50 years. I don’t know if we will reach 270 but it will be very close and we wouldn’t want to go over 25 years.”
“Explain the conditions to the compromisarios? If I say this I am dead. I am revealing my cards. It is a negotiation. They will not know the nominative name, because I am putting them in competition. We will explain the basic conditions. What our partners must understand is that we are competing to choose the best option”.
SALARY REDUCTIONS
“Mateu Alemany has done a great job. We have a wage bill of 560 million euros, compared to Bayern it is double, they have 300 million and Madrid 400”.
“Negotiations with the squad will be individual, coffee for all will not apply in this house.”
“With the veterans, it will depend on the technical interests and where there is more interest for the club. The most expensive contracts have to be negotiated beforehand.”
“On the heavyweights, if one has to leave:” It is the player’s own decision, the players have some agreements that someone has signed and here they are talking about putting their hand in the pocket of these people. They haven’t committed any sin, we can’t allow ourselves certain situations but we have to make an assessment, they haven’t cheated anyone and Barça has respected their agreements, another thing is that we have to negotiate with them”.
SALE OF PLAYERS
“Right now we don’t have a budget for the sale of players. What is being talked about is a technical issue. About Frankie de Jong, one thing is that you get money and another that you use for other payments”
THE SUPER LEAGUE
“We will talk about the Super League, this is with lawsuits in the courts and we will win them. There will be a format, I don’t know which one, what is not fair is the current distribution. We still have to do it with our spirit. We would not have announced it in television programs and we would have gone to negotiate with UEFA, which is the right thing to do for the benefit of all”.
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