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The deadlines for the parliamentary process of the Draft of the new Sports Law are running out and have the professional football clubs in suspense, which maintain their intention to resort to forceful measures if the Government and the political parties do not heed their requests.

If the amendments sought by 39 of the 42 clubs that make up the First and Second Divisions, all with the exception of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao, are not admitted tomorrow in Parliament, they will remain at the expense of the process in the Senate, more formal .

, president of Levante and member of the Delegate Commission of LaLiga, warns that "a model that creates a lot of wealth is at stake", and

, president of Betis, stresses: «It is a model that has placed Spain at the forefront of the sector.

Any scenario that weakens our position is not admissible."

The three main amendments, around which the controversy is, refer, firstly, to LaLiga's will that the Draft Sports Law explicitly recognize the power of professional leagues to "commercialize" their assets, something which it does not do now, which generates situations of "legal insecurity".

In addition, they insist that the right of the federations to change their statutes must be accompanied by the request for a mandatory report from the affected professional leagues.

Finally, those 39 clubs want an article to exist that says that the issuance of the license, the power of the federations, to compete in professional leagues would entail the prohibition of doing so in other parallel competitions.

For example, the Super League.

This last amendment is the one that is opposed by Real Madrid, whose president,

, is the main promoter of the Super League.

In the same way, the white club opposes the recognition in the Law of the right to "commercialization" of professional leagues, because, according to their criteria, it could affect the clubs' own assets in the future.

This has caused a lot of litigation between Madrid and LaLiga, something that cannot be abstracted from Florentino's position against

in the football war that pits the president of LaLiga against that of the Federation.

"Trade with guarantees"

The presidents want to disassociate these claims from the polarization of Spanish football and thus expressed it in their meeting with the Minister of Culture and Sports,

.

"I think that until that day the Government did not know that this is not a Tebas-Rubiales-Florentino problem, but that it is a problem of the clubs," insists the Levante leader, one of the interlocutors at that meeting.

"The relationship between the presidents of LaLiga and the Federation should not influence or be relevant for the purposes of making a law," adds his counterpart at Betis.

«We want to be able to commercialize what is ours with guarantees.

But only common assets, not private ones, ”Catalán continues, facing Madrid's arguments.

"The Government has to decide whether to load this successful model, which maintains around 185,000 jobs, creates a lot of wealth, 1.4% of GDP, and contributes 50 million to the rest of sports," explains the leader.

LaLiga has called an extraordinary Assembly next Thursday to decide what the position of the employers is if their amendments have not been addressed in Parliament.

The break is on the table.

«CvC could activate exit clauses»

The appeal of the clubs comes after the presentation of the amendments, agreed with the PP and the PSOE, although it was the first one who had to present them, was aborted by decision of the PP.

"They were eliminated in a surprising way," insists Haro.

Due to this fact, the clubs not only requested the meeting with the Government, but also with

.

They believe that the PP's change in position was the product of the influence of the powerful, especially Madrid.

Barcelona has lined up alongside the white club in the Super League and, furthermore, in the "no" to the agreement with CvC, a position that Athletic also adhered to.

Signed by the rest of the clubs, this agreement with CvC on account of a percentage of the sale of future rights is what could be in danger, in Haro's opinion, by continuing in a situation of "legal insecurity".

«CvC could activate contractual exit clauses.

A plan that is key to reconstruction after the disastrous pandemic would be in danger, “he adds.

«No one is unaware -he concludes- that if there were a Super League, the economic amount that would be paid for television rights would be to the detriment of LaLiga.

We have grown a lot and well in recent years and the Super League would mean stopping it, by reducing our income.

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