The statements of the sports director of Levante, Felipe miñambreswhich calls into question the agreement of CVC y The Liga of Javier Thebes and what it means for his club and the rest of the teams, is the straw that breaks the camel’s back of an increasingly unsustainable situation. Levanteand other clubs like the Valencia or the Ray Vallecanoamong others, are raising their voices and leaving aside the easy applause with each decision that is taken by the employers’ association that leads Thebes.
If any fan has followed the news of the two categories of Spanish professional football, the First and Second Division, where the agreement with CVCsold as the panacea for the problems of Spanish football, will have realised that one of the toughest summers for our football has been recorded, where a large part of the teams have had serious problems not only in being able to sign, but also in being able to register footballers due to the fair play financial.
After just three years since the ‘big deal’ was announced, several clubs are already realising that it was a serious mistake, with no less than 47 years of the 50-year contract still remaining. CVC It is becoming a disaster for many of them and they are already complaining publicly.
“All the clubs decided at a certain point how that distribution would be. It’s not a matter for the League, the clubs get together and maybe it’s time for them to get together and make a different distribution,” explained the sporting director of the Levante Felipe miñambres on the agreement with CVCwhich gave clear examples of the situation that is becoming the case: “It is no use to me to go and buy a 300 square metre villa, with a swimming pool and everything, to spend everything on that and then not have anything to eat. And if I don’t have anything to eat, I’m going to die in a 200 square metre villa. So we have to see, I don’t know if maybe they’ll give 5% more, at least to get the money moving because having it in the CVC is not going to help us at all.”
“I don’t know if they’ll give me a slap on the wrist when I go to the League,” he argued. miñambres after publicly criticizing The Liga y Javier Thebesaware that his words will have consequences: “Having a new sports city… We already have a beautiful stadium, a good sports city. It will do me no good to make a better press room or make some boxes or do a series of things that will not go where they should mostly go, which is to the playing field and the footballers. In the end it is not just us. We may be in a slightly worse situation, but most clubs tell you about this feeling.”
But the Levante He has not been the only one who has raised his voice, they have also done so from the Valencia with the sports director Miguel Ángel Corona denouncing the harsh situation that the club is left with because of the cut that CVC takes. “Despite finishing ninth last season, the forecast is that not only will we not earn more, but we will earn less than when we finished sixteenth. There are times when it is not possible. But we have made many efforts to maintain the squad, that whole great block that gave us performance last year,” he complained.
Another one who has raised his voice and announced war is Rayo Vallecano that, through the mouth of its president Raúl Martin Presa, has assured that it has not signed up to the agreement this season CVC and that, therefore, they are not receiving that money. “We have not entered into CVC, we have not signed up for the contract. We support, but we have not requested the aid. Rayo is a team and the current board is working intensively to pay a debt and solve a financial situation that others created. We are reaching the shore and we do not want a wave to push us back again. Within our humility we will get to where we will get to; but we do not want to owe anything to anyone.“, he concluded.
Tebas is already seeing how the clubs that previously applauded and agreed with his directives are starting to throw stones at him over an agreement that will only worsen the conditions for Spanish clubs to be competitive in the transfer market. Real Madrid and Athletic were not wrong with the ruin of CVC.
