• Opinion: audience in stadiums? Viana's lapse and the Merkel solution

The First and Second clubs look with stupefaction at the controversy that the president of Las Palmas, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, has opened stating that his stadium will have an audience at the resumption of the championship next week. Both his statements have surprised, clinging to the regulations governing Phase 3 of the de-escalation (authorized events with a 30% capacity), and the flight that the Government is allowing to the matter, when all Spanish football assumed that the League was It would close in summer condensed format and with the silent stands. But neither Fernando Simón, the chief expert of Moncloa, nor Irene Lozano, the Secretary of State for Sport, have been forceful in the last hours, leaving the sector on the wrong foot. One more uncertainty to manage in the midst of the biggest crisis experienced by professional football.

Simón and Lozano have come to confirm that the first days will be played behind closed doors, to avoid the sports injustice that would be to see some stadium with fans and others not, because of the different de-escalation speeds, with cities next week in Phase 3 and others in 2. «It is a question of responsibility and solidarity. We have worked hard to keep up with the teams' return, ”Lozano told EFE.

However, the clouds come later, at the end of the month, when the alarm state will drop. Then, in the so-called new normality , without exceptional regulations already, it is expected that a handful of days will be played, until the end of the tournament, on July 19. Legally, right now in that period you could play matches with followers on the fields, an option that the authorities are leaving open.

«It is impossible for there to be an audience for the first matches of the return of the competition. And afterwards? ... It is very very difficult, we do not forget what that Atalanta-Valencia meant at the level of contagions, but it would not be prudent to rule it out sharply. A month and a half ago we barely gave a 10% chance to the return of the League and now we are about to resume it. We do not know the situation we will have in a month, "they say from the CSD, without wanting to catch their fingers. They acknowledge, however, that they see this remote possibility and that their main objective is to be able to start the next season, in September, with an audience. "It would be a complete success," they describe such a scenario, if successful.

Bewilderment in the teams

To do this, to open the ticket offices in the autumn even if it was only a part, the clubs were working, they do not understand how an issue that has been overcome can be reopened from the moment that LaLiga, the Government and the Federation signed the Viana pacts , where it was achieved save the season. When the state of alarm declines on June 21 - again extended yesterday - the final decision to allow football with spectators will be up to the Autonomous Communities. "But they will always attend to the Health recommendations," says the CSD.

In LaLiga and the clubs intuit that no regional leader will break the pact and allow such a dangerous acceleration, no matter how many good viral figures are being considered. Although social distancing rules could be imposed within the venues, one party leads to massive movements both on the streets and on public transport.

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Despite the financial blow to playing without fans, most teams had already made up their minds, with the relief of keeping at least television revenue. "It's crazy to think about opening the stadiums in July," they told this newspaper from one of the shields that plays European competition. Just these days, the member departments of the different clubs manage the return of the proportional part of the subscription fee that corresponds to the missing matches of the current season.

At Real Madrid, for example, they have estimated that it is 25%, an amount that can be recovered immediately or contribute to the payment of the following campaign, where it is still unknown on what date it will be possible to start playing with people in the stands. Today Eibar will communicate with its partners to balance the accounts. Others, like Atlético, have been at it for weeks, while Barcelona continues to think about how to do it.

Cup Final

Both in First and Second cause amazement that the authorities are considering opening the stadiums. Real Madrid, for example, is faced with the unexpected possibility of moving to Valdebebas, where they will play their home games in the remaining days, in order to facilitate the remodeling of the Bernabéu. A change of venue motivated by the firm idea that if the League were to resume, it would always be behind closed doors. Works are not only the whites, since Osasuna and Levante also have summer repairs planned in their fiefs. This debate on the return of the public does not alter the plans of the Federation with the final of the Copa del Re and, between Athletic and Real, scheduled for next season always with spectators.

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