On June 1, Joan Laporta received Javier Tebas at his home, with whom he shared a table and tablecloths. On June 6, LaLiga gave the green light to Barça's viability plan for the next two years. On June 9, the Barcelona club asked to leave the lawsuit it shared with Madrid and Athletic against the agreement between the majority of clubs and the CVC investment fund. Barça has let go of the hand of Florentino Pérez in one of the great battlehorses that have had tension between the Barcelona management and the employers since the summer of 2021. In just eight days, three episodes that can make interpretation that the relations between Barça and LaLiga have entered into a truce, in a diplomatic way.
Sources from the Blaugrana club explained to this newspaper that the gesture of withdrawing the demand does not mean, not by a long shot, that Barça intends to add to the CVC agreement. However, from Barcelona it is pointed out that the intention is to reach out to the rest of the clubs in Spanish football to see if alternative formulas can be sought, and with the withdrawal of the demand it is mainly an attempt not to harm the teams that do who signed the agreement in the event that justice invalidates the agreement.
At the moment, no more trades suit Barcelona, while it is waiting for UEFA to confirm in the coming days whether or not it has a definitive place in the Champions League following the investigation opened by the European body into the Negreira case. At the same time, in recent months he has not made more noise than necessary regarding the Superliga. Juventus has asked Barça and Madrid to leave the project before even the European justice issues a verdict on the matter.
Barcelona's decision to withdraw from the lawsuit against LaLiga by CVC came on the same day that a judgment was pronounced against the employer, since it considered illegal the agreement reached with the fund in the assembly of the August 12, 2021. The decision of the court of first instance number 47 of Madrid was completely in favor of Barça, the white team and Athletic. LaLiga will appeal against this sentence but assures that it does not question the substance of the agreement, but rather a defect in form that was already corrected in December 2021 in another assembly of the employers. At that summit, a definitive agreement was reached with CVC for 1,994 million in exchange for the value of 9% of the audiovisual rights for 50 years. 37 of the 42 clubs supported it, four voted against it and one abstained.
The turns the ball makes. Back in the day, Barça could not retain Messi because it considered the teams' agreement with CVC abusive to its interests and now the club does not want to go further in its legal battle for diplomatic and strategic reasons.
His viability plan has received the approval of LaLiga but his wage bill is still 250 million above the limit, and has prevented the practice from addressing the signing of Messi now. He has a lot of work left to do to be able to sign with the 1-1 rule and, for the moment, he is subject to the 40% rule (for every 10 million he sells he can invest 4).
At the same time that Barça softens its relations with LaLiga, it stops embracing Madrid. Until the outbreak of the Negreira case and Florentino Pérez's decision for his club to appear as a private prosecution, the two directives had maintained an idyllic understanding. But now the pace has changed. In the European Super League they still hold together.
