The situation
LaLiga has responded to Florentino Perez’s statements, yesterday at El Chiringuito, about Javier Tebas and the agreement reached last December with the CVC investment fund to create LaLiga Impulso. The white president criticized not only the agreement, but also assured that Laporta, president of Barcelona, suffered pressure to join the project , which in the end he has not done. The employers of Spanish clubs have issued a statement denying these claims and defending the project with CVC. Florentino Pérez assured that Laporta was subjected to pressure to join the agreement with CVC throughout the year despite the fact that he was also against it and had prosecuted it together with Real Madrid and Athletic. LaLiga has wanted to deny all those pressures that the white president mentioned: “ LaLiga has not at any time or in any way put pressure on the president of Barcelona , Joan Laporta, with the intention of him joining LaLiga Impulso.
The details
At all times , what has been done is to attend to the different information requirements requested by Barcelona from both LaLiga and CVC, always in response to a previously expressed interest from the club. the legal advice of important international firms such as Uría Menéndez or Latham & Watkins, for which it refers to an absolute legal solvency since its inception. And he adds: “This agreement was put to a vote, as it could not be otherwise, following the democratic channels enabled in the different governance bodies of LaLiga. The majority of the clubs that make up LaLiga, 38 of the 42, decided to join after analyzing the agreement individually and autonomously, also supported by their respective legal advisors”. Real Madrid, along with Barcelona and Athletic, have sued the LaLiga Impulso project in court. The plan that links the Spanish employers with the investment fund for the next 50 years in exchange for the clubs (the 38 that accepted) giving up about 10% of their audiovisual income in exchange for receiving almost 2,000 million euros to distribute.