Javier Thebes, president of LaLiga

24 hours after the announcement of the Superliga on its new bases and the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, has already released his second statement setting position on the 10 ideas that the project has explained

Tebas continues to charge against the Super League: "It is a coup d'etat to football"

Published:10/02/2023 - 16:31h

Updated:10/02/2023 - 16:31h

24 hours after the announcement of the Superliga on its new bases and the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, has already released his second statement setting position on the 10 ideas that the project has explained

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This Thursday the Superliga announced his new bases of face to happen to be a project to a reality in the next two years. The company commissioned to carry all the process, 'To22 Sports Management', anuncipo the new proposal that now includes different divisions and the participation from among 60 and 80 clubs. By his part, the president of LaLiga, Javier Thebes, did not take in pronouncing and now this Friday has to 'load' against the project.

The Spanish lawyer took advantage of to send an open letter and line of "coup d'état" and a "last attempt of kidnapping" to the current model of European football. In the communication published in 'Mark' and 'The World', under the title 'The smartest of the European football', Thebes tildó of "pamphlet" the decalogue of To22 Sports "that purportedly go to do that the favourite sport of Europe was better that never".

"Which is this incredible recipe for the success presented by the Mr. Reichart? A 'competition multidivisión with 60 to 80 teams' that they would be selected 'by annual sportive merits' without 'permanent members'. It promises financial stability and predictibilidad playing 'a minimum of 14 European parties each season. All this, of course, without problems of calendar", indicated.

The maximum civil servant of the patronal equally considered "incredible" that the national leagues Europeans also would prosper when receiving more resources through this Superliga, "do not leave deceive", indicated. Thebes reported that "all this would be possible thanks to a new model of gobernanza. That they govern the clubs. Which clubs? Definitely, only the big clubs. The small and average will not be able to participate neither be decisive in return of the 'alms' of the big".

Direct hit to the project

According to the director, the Superliga is a "coup d'état to the model of the European football and would finish with the national championships say what say". "Therefore the unanimous opposition of the national Leagues, of all the sizes. The Mr. Reichart pretends to give lessons of what is convenient to all the European Leagues. They are so ignorant all the leaders of the national leagues?", it commented in his letter.

"The national leagues represent today 75% of the income generated in the European football. There is more than 40 leagues and professional associations in Europe, more than 1.500 professional clubs, more than 53.000 professional footballers, more than 75.000 no sportive employees that, in group, generate more than 25.000 million euros in income and a lot of places of work to his around", finalised the current president of LaLiga.

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