DSpanish professional clubs have approved a controversial football league deal with Luxembourg investors. La Liga announced that the deal with the former Formula One owner CVC was approved by 38 votes to 4 at a conference in Madrid on Thursday. It is said that by injecting about 2.67 billion euros, investors will receive 11% of all the income of Spain’s first and second leagues in the next 50 years. He also owns more than 10.95% of audiovisual rights.
Two clubs FC Barcelona Real Madrid opposed the deal and voted against it with two other clubs. According to media reports, at the request of investors, they should now be unaffected by the transaction. This means that they don’t get any money, but they don’t have to give up any rights.
Real Madrid announced on Tuesday that it will file civil and criminal proceedings against the chairman of the alliance Javier Tebas and financial investors.After the concession between the alliance and CVC real Madrid But no action may be taken. The non-voting national association RFEF also rejected the project. It said that the most important thing is that the planned commercialization of audiovisual media rights is considered “illegal.”
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Especially the boycott of FC Barcelona caused shock, because the Catalan club with a total debt of nearly 1.2 billion euros urgently needs capital injection. Due to the financial situation, the club had to let Lionel Messi move to Paris.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, CVC has been trying to get involved in several major European football leagues. In Italy, CVC wanted to participate in Serie A’s media revenue as part of an investor consortium, but was turned away by major clubs. The German Football League (DFL) wants investors to participate in the marketing of overseas media and licensing rights at a rate of 25%, but most clubs also refused.
