The Federation takes sides in the conflict of 'LaLiga Impulso', the multimillionaire (€ 2,700M) agreement between the club management and CVC for the next 50 years. After the opposition of Barcelona and Real Madrid, the latter even announcing legal measures against Tebas, the RFEF chaired by Luis Rubiales also joins.
The Federation issued a harsh statement stating that non-professional football would be harmed and that Thebes would be one of the great beneficiaries. “The RFEF must express its opposition. Clubs and SADs are heavily taxed for the next fifty years in exchange for a small amount of money“The statement says. It continues:” The most important thing is that the agreement increases inequality and makes a fundamental and definitive way impossible for a reasonable evolution of the professional football competition format in Spain. What's more, Forget the clubs that play non-professional competitions that, upon their promotion to professional competition, will find that their income is reduced for the remuneration of CVC, without having obtained any benefit from the contribution of that entity “.
The Federation statement fully attacks the agreement and describes it as lousy: “We see little rigorous and very opportunistic, trying to go beyond the borders of the law to reach a lousy and regrettable economic agreement facing the future of all Spanish football and, on the other hand, fantastic for a fund and other possible beneficiaries. “And he points out to Tebas one of the great beneficiaries and relates it to a possible increase in emoluments for the president of LaLiga:” intends to create a new corporate structure, the sole purpose of which is that the President of the LNFP will become the President of the new entity, also receiving new emoluments for it and avoiding the already few controls that are now imposed on it“The Federation also threatens LaLiga to go to justice.
This is a new episode about the LaLiga Impulso agreement that will be voted on in the Club Assembly tomorrow. All the First and Second teams, as well as the president of the RFEF who is invited to this type of meeting, will face each other tomorrow and must decide whether they are in favor or against. The LaLiga Delegate Commission (made up of 14 clubs and Tebas) approved it unanimously. This assumes that there are already 14 guaranteed yeses. But although LaLiga Impulso is approved tomorrow, it seems that neither Real Madrid nor the Federation will give up and go to court. One more time.
Thebes, very active in recent days refuting the arguments of the opposition, responded via Twitter to the RFEF statement: “At last the RFEF releases the long-awaited statement on the Super League supporting UEFA and leagues. Oh no! What about a project that liquidated Spanish football DOES NOT PRONOUNCE. Of course, to attack LaLiga they do not fail. Instructions must be followed … If the documents have not been studied! “.
Finally the @rfef Releases the long-awaited statement on the Super League supporting UEFA and leagues. Oh no! What about a project that liquidated Spanish football DOES NOT PRONOUNCE. Of course, to attack LaLiga they do not fail. Instructions must be followed … if the documents have not been studied! https://t.co/JYUNEWTbQq
– Javier Tebas Medrano (@Tebasjavier) August 11, 2021
Later, LaLiga would issue an institutional note refuting the RFEF statement. “The LaLiga team has been exploring alternatives in the market for some time and has worked with numerous candidates. CVC has proven to be the best possible industrial partner.” And continues: “The consideration of” insignificant amount of money “is not understood in the face of an operation whose valuation is equivalent to 15.1 times the ebitda in the last season, widely exceeds the one that has been considered in similar projects, with multiples much higher than those reached in comparable operations, and places LaLiga as the seventh company on the Ibex “.
The employer also denies that inequality is increasing with this project: “We reject the claim that LaLiga Impulso increases inequality and prevents the development of the competition, free of charge, As shown in the documentation provided to the RFEF, the project allows a significant evolution of the same without affecting or harming the exercise of the powers attributed to LaLiga by the Sports Law and Royal Decree-Law 5/2015 “. And he emphatically concludes:”Beyond the inconsistency of the arguments raised, LaLiga rejects the set of subjective and false opinions that the RFEF makes free of charge throughout the entire statement “.