Thursday, March 28

LaLiga summons the Spanish clubs to a meeting in Dubai and causes a new clash with Real Madrid and Barcelona

New battle in Spanish football. LaLiga, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have increased their differences this Wednesday after the employers’ association of the football clubs convenes an extraordinary general assembly in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, for next week. The two largest teams in the organization have announced that they will not attend and accuse the leaders of LaLiga of committing an “illegality” with this call.

LaLiga has announced that it will hold a general assembly for the clubs that make up the organization, those that play in the first and second division of Spanish football, on December 7. The organization chaired by Javier Tebas defends in a statement that the choice of Dubai to hold a meeting of the Spanish clubs occurs to “take advantage of an international event in the sector of the relevance of a World Cup”, which is being held these weeks in Qatar.

The organization defends that it is an “immersion in the MENA territory – acronym in English for the Middle East and North Africa – for all those interested clubs.” The objective of LaLiga is none other than to increase the international market of the employers’ association and the teams that make it up. “The idea is that the clubs can find out first-hand about the entertainment consumption habits of their inhabitants, the industry or the type of companies that carry out their activity in the territory, aspects that will be key so that LaLiga clubs can better manage their efforts to expand in this area,” says the statement published this afternoon.

This note comes in response to those issued by Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. The group chaired by Florentino Pérez has assured that it considers the call “illegal, since the clubs are summoned more than 5,000 km from the LaLiga headquarters.” As reported by the club, LaLiga is in charge of the transfers and accommodation of the attendees. “It is completely inappropriate and deeply inconsistent that LaLiga commits the economic waste of displacing more than 100 people to carry out an act of this nature, on these dates, to the United Arab Emirates, when it could be held at the LaLiga headquarters without incur extraordinary costs,” the statement said.

Real Madrid is also concerned, he states in the statement, that changes are going to be made to the LaLiga statutes without “the opportune debate and calm analysis.” This idea is influenced by FC Barcelona, ​​which defends in another note that the changes that are planned to be undertaken “require a greater prior debate and a more extensive and participatory analysis, which facilitates the maximum consensus that a reform of this magnitude deserves.” “We express our opposition to any action that we consider harmful to the rights and interests of FC Barcelona”, settles the note.

LaLiga has responded that “in no case can the call be considered illegal” and has defended that it is not the first time that a meeting of this type has been held, as was already done in India in 2018. The employers defend that it is a “voluntary” assistance and that it seeks to “facilitate the internationalization of clubs in those countries and encourage local fans to get closer to LaLiga clubs”. “LaLiga regrets that once again, the discordant criteria of a few want to modify the growth and development plans of the majority,” the note settles.

The Dubai assembly is a new chapter in a long battle between LaLiga, on the one hand, and Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, ​​on the other. The two clubs have openly raised in the past the rejection of Tebas’ management of an organization in which both teams are represented. Over the last year and a half they have highlighted the distance between the two sides in two other major clashes. The first occurred in the spring of last year, when Real Madrid and FC Barcelona [en un inicio también el Atlético de Madrid] they joined other European clubs to organize the European Super League. That project declined, but both Madrid and Barcelona maintain a partnership with Juventus to promote this competition for the richest clubs on the continent. The second big clash occurred last summer, when these two teams, and Athletic Bilbao, disassociated themselves from the sale of part of the LaLiga business to the CVC investment fund. On both occasions, their disagreements have ended up in court.



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