The 27th session of the culture and sports commission that addresses the new Sports Law, whose job is to renew the 1990 law, currently in force, was held this Tuesday in Congress with great interest in what could come of it. After more than a year of work, the definitive text is close to being finalized, but before that is the case, it is raised to plenary session and, later, reaches the Senate to finally be published in the BOE throughout the month of December, there were relevant issues to discuss. The majority, of direct impact in LaLiga, which came out better than expected. The president of the CSD, José Manuel, already hinted at it Franco, in statements made in the morning in Sabadell: «A law cannot go against anyone, it has to be a facilitator. I want to be optimistic and I want to be convinced that in the end there may be a solution that, if it does not leave everyone fully satisfied, at least leaves all parties moderately dissatisfied.
Specifically, there were three amendments that had 39 of the 42 LaLiga clubs on the warpath and, after today’s commission, two of them, the ones that have the most direct impact on the present and future of the competition, have been resolved on the side of the bosses or, at least, on a side that is not harmful to their interests. In the new Sports Law, there will continue to be the obligation of a prior and favorable report from LaLiga when there are proposals for changes to the statutes of the competition by the RFEF. This means, so that it is understood, that if the Federation, for example, wanted the championship to have 18 teams instead of 20, or that the matches were only on Saturdays and Sundays -and exclude Fridays and Mondays-, or to impose the schedules , could not do so without the CSD first receiving a prior and favorable report from the organizer of the competition, which in this case is LaLiga. Therefore, nothing will change in this regard.
Neither will it in relation to commercial exploitation. After an intense day of negotiations, the socialist group finally decided to leave this matter as it was written in the Sports Law of 1990, incorporating a new amendment that recorded the regulation of the Royal Decree of 2015 on the centralized sale of rights of TV. With this last minute change, LaLiga it obtained the necessary votes to preserve and reinforce its current status . In this way, the legal and financial security of its commercial contracts, such as the relevant agreement signed with CVC last season, is not jeopardized. With this scenario, the threat of strike that the 39 First and Second clubs had hinted at this weekend disappears, although the extraordinary Assembly on Thursday and the subsequent private meeting of the 39 clubs to share the next steps to follow.
Regarding the amendment that put the focus on the Super League, that coin came out tails to LaLiga and heads to Real Madrid and Barcelona. At the moment, it does not go ahead, after the no of the PP and the PSOE, although LaLiga will continue fighting it in the Senate. He has it almost impossible, but he will exhaust all possible options. Said amendment, proposed by Cs and VOX, referred to the possibility that LaLiga could veto teams that participated in a championship not recognized by UEFA or FIFA, as the British Government of Boris Johnson did with the six clubs of the Premier -City, United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham- that were in the Super League. PP and PSOE, in addition to Junts, voted no to this amendment. LaLiga considers that a future Super League would be a damaging element for the national championships and, with this amendment, wanted to avoid at all costs the compatibility of both competitions for Real Madrid and Barcelona.
