President of La Liga, Javier ThebesExpressing the opinion of the clubs after the recent changes to the Sports Law in the future, he said: “Uncomfortably happy with the Super League theme”“, because a change protecting them against this has not been approved.
“We are uncomfortably happy, but only because of the Super League issue. The amendment to Article 89 was not approved, but a paragraph of Article 47 was amended to balance the powers of leagues and federations. They have commercial exploitation capacities outside of audiovisual rights and we are happy with this solution” he explained.
Tebas appeared in front of the media this Thursday after more than three hours of meeting with clubs to discuss the changes the text would include, following changes approved and rejected before the Congressional Culture and Sports Committee was voted in by the plenary session. most exercise of commercial rights, agreement with CVC and Superliga issue.
“What we were looking for from the first moment, legal security“With CVC, we aimed to protect and defend the current ‘status quo’ of sports law that we are comfortable with,” he said.
The LaLiga president stated that “the third change to be resolved that benefits the strategy of the Super League is not underway”. “They think it benefits them, but the government was supposedly against the project.”He lamented after the rejection of a text allowing leagues to veto clubs participating in competitions supported by Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus.
“The influence of the Madrid president is very important in the field of sports in this country, but he goes with the wrong argument, because we did not lose,” he added.
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However, Tebas assured him that he would continue to have it. multiple ways to stop the project Super League. “It doesn’t matter if they didn’t include the change, because we’re already going to knock out the Super League project, it would just pave the way for us, as in Italy Serie A,” he said.
“We clubs, RFEF and the League, together with other European leagues and UEFA have the legal and legal mechanisms to fight against the Super League, it needs reforms, but we have support in that regard,” he said.
He also downplayed the importance of a possible future decision of the EU Court of Justice in favor of this and recalled: “The vast majority of legislative states opposed the Super League model, as did the European Parliament.”
“I don’t know what they will invent next. Florentino never loses. There can be no consensus with Madrid and Barcelona if they defend the Superliga, which will ruin the national leagues. I hope one day they will realize that this project is impossible. He ended his speech after the meeting in which Real Madrid and Barcelona were present. .