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LaLiga charges against the Premier League: "They are economically doped"

Published:1/02/2023 - 13:20h

Updated:1/02/2023 - 13:20h

The general director of LaLiga, Javier Gómez, has denounced the disparity between the figures of the clubs in England and Spain based on 'financial fair play' and demands that UEFA take measures

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After seeing a scandalous series of movements in the English football, especially in the case of Chelsea, that has not tired to throw of the chequebook during the month of January, LaLiga has pronounced on the case, warning the more than evident disparity in the costs of his clubs and what usually are used to to disburse the Spanish teams regarding the operations of market.

To trial of the general director of the patronal, Javier Gómez, the English clubs would be jumping the regulations of the organism rector of the European football regarding the relation between costs and income according to the fixed by the 'fair play financial': "In LaLiga what pursue is that the clubs spend what can pay and generate of autonomous way. It is truth that allows that the shareholders can put money to be able to spend something more than what can generate".

The scandalous figures of the Premier League

Likewise, it has warned the enormous difference in the figures of the two first divisions of the English football regarding the total cost of LaLiga: "In England occurs all the contrary and the data are the following: until 30 July past and according to the data of the five previous, the Premier and the Championship, that are the first and second category, had lost 3000 million euros. The League in this period had lost 250 million euros".

Of equal way has done relation to the entry that the clubs of England and Spain receive by part of his shareholders, leaving in evidence a clear disparity in matter of the finances of each tournament: "That occurs that the shareholders of these two categories have put in this period 3500 million euros and the shareholders in this same period of 5 years in our competition have put 450 million euros"

For Gómez treats of a clear case of "financial doping": "What there is behind all this? That are doping to the club. They are injecting money that does not generate the club to spend and this puts in risk the feasibility of a club when this shareholder leave . And second, and this is to do cheats because this drags to the rest of leagues. And that is our fight demanding to UEFA that, with the new economic control, that prevents that the shareholders of the clubs can put more than a determinate money".

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