08/05/2021 19:15
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/05/2021 19:15
The world of football continues to be shocked by Barcelona's explosive announcement about the departure of Lionel Messi due to "economic and structural obstacles".
Now, the club published a
second statement
, in which it strongly criticizes LaLiga and an agreement signed by Javier Tebas in the last hours.
"FC Barcelona considers that the operation that has been made public
has
not
been sufficiently contrasted
with the clubs (owners of the TV rights); that its amount
is not consistent
with the years of duration and that part of the audiovisual rights are affected of all the clubs for the next 50 years ", they wrote from the Catalan institution.
It refers to an agreement that
Javier Tebas
, president of LaLiga de España, signed in the last hours with the international fund CVC.
The contract translates into strong financial support: the income of
2,667.5 million euros
for Spanish football for the next 40 years.
In return, CVC receives
11% of the business
(excluding TV rights).
Lionel Messi will not remain in Barcelona, according to the club's announcement.
Photo DPA
The club assures that the conditions of the contract
"condemn the future of FC Barcelona
in the matter of audiovisual rights" and described the agreement as "inappropriate".
"FC Barcelona wants to show its surprise at an agreement promoted by Laliga in which
it has not had the criteria of teams
, like FC Barcelona itself, and does not even show options among more competitors to be able to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages in a scenario with many questions such as the post-pandemic ", they fired this Thursday from Catalonia.
It is still striking that, just a few hours before, Barsa announced one of the strongest news in its history: the departure of Messi.
And that, in addition, he explained that this almost unthinkable move was due to "
economic
and structural
obstacles
(Spanish LaLiga regulations)".
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta.
Photo EFE
The two giants, against LaLiga
Barcelona is going through a major economic and financial crisis.
The
salary mass
of the establishment was one of the most delicate points in their coffers.
To this is added another of the conditions of the non-renewal of Messi.
It is that the financial Fair Play promoted by UEFA and implemented by LaLiga establishes limits to the money that is allocated per season to the salaries of footballers.
The quota is
70 percent of income
.
For this reason, the long negotiations with Messi focused, to a large extent, on a strong salary cut (it would reach 50 percent).
Javier Tebas, head of LaLiga.
Reuters photo
In this context of salary adjustment, LaLiga not only did not promote a relaxation of the regulations, but also presented the agreement with the international CVC fund as a relief.
A contract that, on the other hand, goes in the opposite direction to the attempt of the giants of the
Old Continent
to organize the
European Super League
, a tournament outside the national federations.
The other giant of Spain, Real Madrid,
also spoke out
on Thursday in rejection of the contract with CVC.
Florentino Pérez fires Sergio Ramos.
The Spanish giants must adjust their belts.
Photo EFE / Real Madrid.com
"This agreement was made without the participation of Real Madrid and without their knowledge and LaLiga has allowed for the first time today that we have
limited access to the terms
of the agreement," they said from the Spanish capital.
They recalled that the clubs have assigned their "audiovisual rights exclusively for commercialization in competition and for a period of 3 years."
The agreement with CVC, affirms the institution chaired by Florentino Pérez, uses "a
deceptive structure
" and "expropriates from the clubs 10.95% of their audiovisual rights for 50 years and against the law."
Official statement. # RealMadrid
- Real Madrid CF (@realmadrid) August 5, 2021
Meanwhile, always according to Real Madrid estimates, the fund obtains "returns of more than 20% per year".
"Real Madrid cannot support
an operation that gives
investors the future of 42 First and Second Division clubs and the future of the clubs that qualify during these 50 years," concluded the merengue club, in a statement published in the early hours of the Argentine afternoon, when the soccer bomb from Barcelona had not yet exploded.
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