After almost 5 years of helping Barcelona to balance its economy and institutions, allowing, for example, Laporta to continue in his position as president without providing approvals, and giving facilities to the eternal rival to access financial markets, the president of Real Madrid, … Florentino Perezcame to the conclusion that FC Barcelona was no longer an ally.
In the meeting on Sunday, the president was harsh with Barcelona regarding the Negreira issue, he was harsh with Tebas and he was harsh, in short, with an environment that had been hostile to him in recent years because he had the idea of creating the Premier League, which had to be an improvement on the Champions League both in its sporting form and in its commercial concept.
Negotiations between the Premier League and the Champions continue, but not regarding the replacement, but to see if the Champions will adopt some of the proposals of the Premier League in the competition model, and other proposals in what should be a new institutional structure for the new company, which should belong to the clubs and not to the organizations, with the threat of heavy compensation if the negotiations break down, which the Champions will have to pay to the Premier League as soon as the Spanish courts decide, after the initial ruling, resolved by the European Court of Justice, that the conduct and composition of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and UEFA (UEFA), who threatened the clubs that founded the Premier League, are an abuse of their dominant position. This matter has been approved by the Madrid District Court. Only the final appeal to the Supreme Court remains pending, which, once resolved, will open the way for claims for damages resulting from this unlawful conduct. This compensation, which has not yet been determined, will amount to hundreds of millions of euros. If Barcelona returns to the ECA (European Club Association, which Al-Khelaifi chairs and UEFA’s armed wing to maintain its privileges and achieve its political goals), it will have to abandon any legal action against UEFA and therefore any compensation, and Laporta will have to explain why the club will voluntarily stop earning €100 million or more.
Laporta has reaped the benefits of being Florentino’s ally, and Florentino more than paid the price for having the Barcelona president at his side, confident that when the moment of truth came he could rely on him and in the end that was not the case. At the same time, during this period, Laporta also had all the facilities from La Liga and UEFA, who sought until the last minute to make him believe that their alliance was more beneficial than that of the Real Madrid president. And in the end Laporta, who lives day by day and constantly needs to fill gaps, ended up thinking about it, even though his transfer is very short-term, because even his priorities Thebes, Severine and Nasser It’s not about how well or how bad things are for Barcelona, it’s about the goal achieved which is to leave Florentino without his main ally, so that the favors and favors that the Barcelona president believes he will receive with his new friends are largely those he has already received.
For this reason, the disintegration, although disappointing for the Madrid president, is more dangerous for Barcelona – a weak club, on the verge of bankruptcy and needing more than it can offer – than for a healthy Madrid, which has already finished building its stadium and decided on its new institutional structure to ensure growth and stability in the coming decades. if Premier League If he can change the business structure of the Champions League, it will be good news for everyone. If he does not succeed, the compensation he will receive will be one that represents an era. Likewise, the Champions League, which is outdated, will collapse in a few years and will necessarily have to move towards a model equal to or similar to the one proposed by the Premier League.
Florentino said when the case broke that no one would force him to utter the word “nigrira.” What I could not have imagined, in those times of alliance, was that the one who would finally achieve this was Laporta, who Stab in the back.