Barcelona withdraws from CVC’s lawsuit against LaLiga

As reported by Cadena COPE and Mundo Deportivo has been able to confirm through various sourcesFC Barcelona dissociated itself from the lawsuit against CVC’s LaLiga and left Athletic Club and Real Madrid alone. The Barcelona club has notified in court his will to “stop” the procedure in which, together with Athletic and Madrid, he demanded that the agreement between LaLiga and CVC be declared illegal,

According to various sources, the Barcelona club, which has a serious problem to register players. He chose to improve his relationship with LaLiga. The employers’ association did not allow the moment to register with a ratio of 1 for 1, which was decisive in Leo Messi’s decision not to listen to Barça’s offer, and the Barcelona club surrendered to the unchanged position of LaLiga.

SENTENCE AND APPEAL OF LALIGA

The employer now has announced that he will appeal the sentence of the Court of First Instance number 47 of Madrid, which declared illegal the agreement reached with the CVC fund at the Extraordinary General Assembly held on August 12, 2021 by estimating “in its entirety the claim filed” of Barça, Real Madrid and Athletic. LaLiga, for its part, clarified that “the judgment sent today is limited to assessing whether there is a formal defect or not in the conditions of the invocation and adoption of the agreement”, and that “it does not affect the validity and sustainability of the LaLiga Impulse Project with CVC”.

In the sentence, the judge considered that “they violated the rules of the call and a large-scale, seasonal and economic operation were put to a vote, without providing all the necessary data to understand and assess its scope”, which forced the courts to consider agreement reached by the clubs null and void. through the Spanish football association.

Despite the court’s decision, LaLiga assured that “this does not affect the validity and maintenance of the LaLiga Impulso Project with CVC” and is assessed only if there is a formal defect or not in the conditions of the call for the Assembly where it was approved in August 2021.

According to the agency, “the content of the judgmentwhich LaLiga does not agree to, only affects formal issues that have already been corrected in the subsequent agreement of December 10″ of 2021, when the Extraordinary General Assembly of LaLiga has definitely approved the agreement with the British investment fund CVC for 1,994 million euros, in exchange for the value of 9% of the audiovisual rights for 50 years, with the support of 37 of the 42 clubs that make it up, four that vote against and one abstention.

REFUSAL TO SIGN CVC

During this time, in 2021, Barcelona considered these conditions abusive and did not comply with the CVC agreement. The Barcelona club, on the other hand, gave up part of his rights audiovisual to third parties in the famous ‘levers’. At the club there was an internal debate about this and the main promoter of the break with CVC, Ferran Reverter, was no longer there. instead, Mateu Alemany, director of football, promotes the renewal of relations with LaLiga, especially with Javier Tebas.

That’s the truth Barcelona withdrew of the demand does not mean that the Barcelona club complies with the agreement with the CVC, or, according to sources from the Super League, it affects the commitment of the Barcelona club to the promoters of the competition, attentive to the ruling of the European Court on free competition .