Barça and Madrid will not attend an Extraordinary General Assembly called by LaLiga in Dubai on December 7, a summit in which Javier Tebas plans to present the new sponsor of the competition, EA Sports, to the clubs. The Barcelona team and the Real Madrid player issued separate statements this Wednesday announcing that they will not go to this appointment to which the 42 First and Second teams are called.
"In this assembly, it is proposed to discuss very relevant issues, related to the modification of the statutes and the general regulations of LaLiga that deserve a greater prior debate and a more extensive and participatory analysis that facilitates the maximum consensus", reflects Barça, who considers that the meeting could perfectly be held at the LaLiga headquarters in Madrid.
The Barça board, which met this Wednesday, reacts like this after a modification of the 'fair play' rules by LaLiga, a variant that the club considers harms its interests in order to go to the transfer market next summer.
The president Joan Laporta already admitted last Monday that it was difficult for them to sign due to the different interpretations that LaLiga makes of different aspects and that he would have liked that all the complications that the Tebas body is putting to the current board of directors, would have been put a few years ago. years to the previous
The president of LaLiga declared that the levers of the club cannot be used to sign footballers. “Barça has to reduce its salary mass from 600 million to just over 400. The question is whether it is going down that path or not. The rules that have been approved by the clubs of the delegated commission establish a control over two seasons. It cannot happen that someone sells a lot of assets, has a lot of income, covers one course and the next one is in a difficult economic situation. The levers can be used to reform the stadium or similar investments, but not to incorporate players," Tebas said on Tuesday.
Real Madrid, for its part, considers the convening of the extraordinary general assembly of LaLiga "illegal", "unjustifiable", "inappropriate" and "incoherent", so it will not send "any representative". "We consider the call illegal, since the clubs are summoned more than 5,000 km from the headquarters of LaLiga. It is totally unjustifiable to address in this improvised and urgent way, without the appropriate debate and calm analysis, relevant modifications of the internal regulations of LaLiga", indicated the white club in a statement, in which it refers that it received notification of the meeting last Friday.
