UEFA ‘threatens’ Betis with leaving it out of Europe

The newly created First Chamber of the UEFA Club Financial Control Committee (First Chamber of the CFCB) announced this Friday in a statement that eight clubs soccer, Among those, Real Betis, were sanctioned due to “failure to comply with the requirement of not having overdue debts.”

According to the statement, Real Betis was sanctioned “with an unconditional financial contribution” of a total of 250.000 euros plus, “with a conditional exclusion from participation in the next UEFA club competition for which they would qualify in the next three seasons”, that is, the 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25, unless they can demonstrate before January 31, 2022 that they have paid the outstanding amounts. “

Real Betis has played down the sanction because, he pointed out, everything is derived from the operation that was carried out at the time with Rayo Vallecano for the signing of full-back Álex Moreno, in which There is a pending payment period that will be made in the coming weeks.

As sources from the Verdiblanco club have informed Efe, UEFA acts ex officio but does not enter into the fact that there is an agreement between Betis and Rayo for the deferral of a payment of this transfer, and adds that the Madrid entity has not reported anything to the European football body either.

Betis, which has not even received any notification about this sanction, will pay the pending payment with Rayo and thus UEFA will withdraw the sanction, according to the same sources.

In addition to the verdiblanco club, The other seven teams that were sanctioned are FC Astana (Kazakhstan), Cluj (Romania), CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria), Mons Calpe (Gibraltar) and CD Santa Clara, FC Porto and Sporting Club (Portugal) .

The fines imposed are 300.00 euros to Porto, 250,000 to Betis and Sporting de Portugal, 75,000 to CSKA of Sofia and Santa Clara, 15,000 to Mons Calpe, while Astana and Cluj have been fined 150,000 and 200,000 euros, respectively.