It does not matter if the Super League advances or stagnates, if the dialogue with UEFA opens or breaks definitively: Javier Tebas He does not miss an opportunity to confront the new proposal for European football or to publicly refute the arguments of its promoters. This Friday the president of LaLiga addressed his counterpart at Fútbol Club Barcelona to make him ugly with some words spoken a few hours before.
“You have to find out before splitting,” said the head honcho of the Spanish employers through his account Twitter. A strong response to the statement by the Catalan that it is impossible for the leading clubs in the League to compete with the Premier League teams, with more financial resources. A disadvantage that he asked to eliminate by introducing changes in current football, pointing to the sources of income and the distribution of money from televisions.
«We bet on the Super League because we have to reform the way European football works. The Premier will go from 5,000 million to 7,000. LaLiga will go from 2,000 to 1,700. This makes it more difficult to compete. We compete because we have a strength and a history, but they have more and more resources. This has to change,” Laporta explained.
«We have been brave in this aspect and in the spring the Court of Luxembourg will issue a resolution that I hope will be favorable to the interests of the clubs and to free European competition, which is the controversy that exists with UEFA. Positioning ourselves is an act of courage, we work to improve the competition for the sustainability of the clubs and to change the government model because in the football industry the clubs are the ones that get the least revenue, “he added.
And the Barça leader concluded with a call for understanding: “I always try to generate dialogue and empathy even with people who think differently. It is not the case. With UEFA there can be dialogue, with LaLiga and the RFEF as well. We are open to talk. The issue is essential for the sustainability of the clubs.
A few words that touched the pride of Thebes, which has not taken 24 hours to answer. With his peculiar style, the president of the League has denied Laporta’s arguments, ensuring that in comparison with the income received by English clubs, neither Barcelona nor Real Madrid fare so badly.
«Dear Joan Laporta, I give you the data on the television distribution of FC Barcelona, compared to clubs in the Premier League. You are perfectly competitive. LaLiga enters less and you like the greats of the Premier League. You have to find out before splitting, “he wrote on his account on the social network Twitter.
Along with this message, criticizing the words of the Barça president, Tebas published a table with the clubs that currently earn the most for television rights in Europe. A table undoubtedly dominated by the Premier League teams and in which Madrid and Barça occupy the seventh and eighth positions.
Absolute dominance of the Premier
The first six places are for clubs in the English championship, the most powerful economically today: Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United. Pep Guardiola’s team earned 176 million euros (6 percent of the Premier total), followed by 174.6 for Klopp’s Liverpool.
Real Madrid, first Spanish club on the list, is the seventh that earns the most with 160.8 million euros, while Barça is the eighth, with 160.1 million. Both cases represent, each one, approximately 10 percent of LaLiga.
The list shared by Thebes includes 22 clubs, of which 12 are English, 2 German (Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund), 3 Italian (Inter, Milan and Juventus) and 2 French (Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille).
This table shows the affirmation of Thebes, with whites and blaugrana embedded among the best placed clubs. But also that their figures are not much ahead of those of Premier clubs such as West Ham (157), Leicester City (147.9), Newcastle (145.6), Brighton (144.6), Wolwerhampton (143.2 ) or Crystal Palace (138.5). In fact, these six teams are higher in television revenue than the third Spanish on the list, Atlético de Madrid. The rojiblancos received the amount of 130.3 million.
