Tebas maintains that Bartomeu unveiled the Super League “directed” by Florentino Pérez

Javier Tebas, responsible as president of LaLiga for heading the employers' association of professional clubs in Spain, offered an interview to the Associated Press agency in which he accused Josep Bartomeu, the resigned president of Barça, of acting under the direction of Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid.

The head of the Spanish employers insisted that the project of creating a European Super League in a format limited to the richest clubs on the continent, a replica of the NBA, is an exclusive product of the imagination and personal desire of Florentino Pérez.

According to Tebas, when Bartomeu announced this Tuesday, after resigning, that he had signed the preliminary agreement to put Barça in the Super League, he did so under the influence of who, apparently, has been his great rival in the Spanish football leadership concert.

"The first thing I see is that [the European Super League project] has already gone from clandestine to semi-clandestine," Tebas said, asked about Bartomeu's announcement. "I always say that this is like a party;

and at five in the morning we already know of one who has been at the party.

I still think the same: that it is a deficit project, in the medium term, that would do a lot of damage to football.

And a step has been taken.

But I don't give it too much importance because it occurs on a day when the president of Barcelona leaves and it occurs in a hurry and running, without depth, led by the thinker of this story, Florentino Pérez ”.

Bartomeu has always followed what Real Madrid has said.

Until three years ago, Barça had its own voice and opinion in the League, in UEFA, in FIFA ... For three years, it has been repeating what Real Madrid says

Javier Tebas

The AP asked Tebas if he imagined that two leaders as apparently opposed as Pérez and Bartomeu could have meetings to plan a total breakdown of the system.

"Yes," he replied. "Phone calls ... If one follows Bartomeu's policy with the institutions in the last three years, he has always followed what Real Madrid has said.

Until three years ago, Barça had its own voice and opinion in the League, in UEFA, in FIFA ... For three years, it has been repeating what Real Madrid says.

The reason should be asked to Bartomeu.

Sometimes there are complexes that Bartomeu's board of directors has had with respect to Madrid leaders ”.

Tebas, who acknowledged that he had spoken with UEFA to comment on Bartomeu's words, said that in the highest body of European football they thought like him.

And he warned that in recent decades, among the big clubs the idea of ​​causing a UEFA split has been cherished.

“Since the G-14 has existed 15 years ago, this is always being talked about," he said. "And above all, it is being talked about from a club.

And more than from a club from a person: the president of Real Madrid.

Florentino Pérez.

This is nothing new.

If it were true, there would be 20 clubs saying that they agree with this project and there are none.

Even Real Madrid in the Spanish press has said that this project is very green.

It is that there is no project as such.

There is a dream of greatness of a Super League, of the president of Real Madrid, which is a very serious mistake because he does not know the audiovisual and economic consequences.

There is nothing else".

"Bartomeu was directed by Florentino", explains Tebas, on the conference of presna of the resigning leader culé. "And Bartomeu says it now so that noise, movement, uncertainty is generated.

This is the dangerous thing.

Those of us in football know that Florentino has been working on this for years.

I even know that he has raised it in FIFA.

But that this is going to be real is impossible.

What happens is that Florentino is very tenacious, he goes to places, and he messes with people.

But it is not a project that can be sustained either in the sports policy of world football or in the economic policy of any serious investment fund in the world.

Impossible!

Bartomeu has zero authority in the soccer industry ”.

If they were so sure about the European Super League they would be more transparent and would show their face.

Why don't they show their faces?

Because they know that it is an impossible project.

A scary project

Javier Tebas

As he considered the possibilities of holding a European Super League following the NBA or NFL pattern, Tebas expressed himself with irony: “That format you are talking about we do at the bar in five minutes.

I don't think it's something very thoughtful.

Zero! ", He said." Many people from the sector have called me and there is nothing else. There is little more than what we see. It is still very clandestine. In my opinion, Bartomeu has been the spokesman for the only one who defends this idea at all costs. who is Florentino Pérez, who is the one who is knocking on doors to add people. Nothing else. "

"There is nothing to stop because there is nothing," said Tebas, when asked how he intends to stop the collusion of rich clubs. "This is created to pressure UEFA to change formats [of the Champions League and Europa League].

It happens every three years.

Just when a format is consolidated, the Super League appears.

It already happened three years ago.

Real Madrid may be here but I don't see that there is an important part of European football behind this project.

The world of European professional football is not one club, not two, not three, or four with an idea.

There are many more.

Dozens of clubs and leagues.

Three clubs cannot change the football ecosystem because at a dinner they discover that they feel like it.

That is not knowing the custom and how football works.

If they were so sure they would be more transparent and would show their faces.

Why don't they show their faces?

Because they know that it is an impossible project.

A scary project.

Because the big clubs need the national leagues and the Champions League in their current configuration ”.

Regarding the economic potential of a Super League, Tebas insisted that it is a speculative model without a long journey.

“They [the conniving clubs] say it would be important to them.

Financially, and in the short term.

In the medium term, that tournament would be a failure.

It is not working to work in the medium term.

And I repeat: even if it were like that, professional football in the world and in Europe does not work because of the decision of five or six clubs.

There is an industry created during the last 15 years where the decisions are not made by four to make a competition because they want to earn more money and take the money of others ".

"I do not think that big changes need to be made," concluded the leader.

"And less in this time of crisis. If things have worked very well, and more so the national leagues and the Champions League, which have been industries that have grown. In the business world there is a maxim: what works, do not change it And less because of the pressure from some clubs ”.

They asked Javier Tebas if he believed that in the future plans would continue to be made to create a Super League: “Yes!

Florentino Pérez has been giving the rattle for 14 years, of course he will continue.

But he will not succeed ”.