Congressional Sports Law report ignores LaLiga’s demands and zooms in on clubs’ ‘strike’

The text presented by the Congress statement after the contributions accepted by the parliamentary groups, It is not final yet and can be changed this Tuesday, when the Culture and Sports Commission meets to issue the relevant opinion.. After the House approves, the bill will go to the Senate, where changes may also occur. However, the report is a clear indication that groups, especially the PP and PSOE, are not willing to listen to LaLiga’s demands in the face of legislative change that has been in effect since 1990.

Clubs have even threatened to stop the competition if the current article continues. The report of the presentation accessed by this newspaper reinforces his discomfort. It will be reviewed at an extraordinary meeting at LaLiga headquarters on Thursday.. That’s when clubs can make the drastic decision to call a lockout, which the RFEF says it will consider illegal.

There are three conflicting articles. LaLiga showed their position against them weeks ago and managed to win. PP Y PSOE accept changes that change the expression. These changes, however, have been withdrawn as LaLiga attributes to pressure from Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez to enjoy a smoother path for the future launch of the Super League.

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One of the articles 45. The text of the report states: “Giving the license cannot be made conditional on participation in other competitions or sports activities in any way”To protect national competitions from competitions like the Super League, while LaLiga demands that this not be the case.

At this point, government sources remind that European Justice must decide in the coming months whether UEFA and FIFA are in a monopoly position; this in practice means deciding whether the Super League complies with the European legal framework. they claim, therefore,The new Sports Law, which can be approved before the EU Advocacy General Assembly (December 15), cannot go in the opposite direction of a possible decision in favor of the Super League..

Article 46, for its part, removes the obligation that “changes proposed by the relevant Spanish Federation affecting official professional competitions will require prior and positive report of the relevant Professional League”; takes its power away from the RFEF and threatens its business model.

The third of the requests for joint marketing of common commercial assets (such as TV rights) was not included in the report prepared by the newspaper. At the moment, joint sale of audiovisual rights is protected by the Royal Decree Act 2015it is a lower order rule than a law and therefore more likely to be changed easily in the future.

The amendment, which was eventually agreed upon by the withdrawn PP and PSOE, includes two additions to Articles 52 and 89 that were not included in the text to be reviewed by the Commission this Tuesday. LaLiga estimates that this change of direction jeopardizes the deal 38 clubs signed with CVC last December. 2,000 million euro investmentgiven the legal uncertainty it produces.

All these irrelevant demands caused An unprecedented mobilization of the president and club executives to censor the current articles of the Bill. They’ve also done contract advertising in the media and put up the “A Sports for All Act” sign at most televised matches this weekend.