Maybe the Premier League is the most attractive league in the world, and maybe it’s even the best one, but no one can match Spanish La Liga, at least when we are talking about league’s executives. President Havier Tebas and his crew are always in the middle of action and more or less always in the media, for various reason. And as soon as the January transfer window was closed, La Liga was back in action. After disciplining Barcelona and suing PSG, they are now turned against the strongest – The Premier League.LaLiga has hit out at the Premier League for “cheating” and “doping” after clubs spent a record £815 million ($1 billion) in the January transfer window 😳 pic.twitter.com/eC7DC2NDVP— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) February 1, 2023 Analysis from Deloitte’s Sports Business Group says that clubs spent a record 1 billion dollars in the January transfer window. As it was obvious, Chelsea football club, currenty in 10th place in England spent 37% of that sum, which is more then all La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga together! And the Spanish league executives think that the Premier League is ‘cheating and doping’.Deadline Day stoppage time sees Enzo finally breaking the EPL record, as Chelsea directs Ziyech’s horror”The reality is that at LaLiga we want clubs to spend what they can afford and generate themselves, that is to say, their own revenues. It is true that shareholders are also allowed to support the club and put money in to spend more than the club itself can generate, but within certain limits. With data compared up to June 30, 2021, and across the five previous seasons, the PL and Championship — top two tiers of English football — lost 3 billion euros. In that same time, the Spanish league lost 250 million. But what happened? During that same period, shareholders across the PL and Champ put in 3.5 billion. Across that same period, shareholders in Spain put in 450 million. What’s the issue? Essentially, they are ‘doping’ the club. They are injecting money not generated by the club for it to spend, which puts the viability of the club at risk if the shareholder leaves. In our opinion, that is cheating, because it drags down the rest of the leagues” said corporate general director Javier Gomez.La Liga supremo declares war on English clubs: Stop producing losses, you’re ruining the sportLa Liga wants UEFA to get involved and solve this issue.”That is our fight, demanding that UEFA implements a new economic regulation that prevents the shareholder of a club from putting in more than a certain amount and that it enforces this rule and sanctions non-compliant clubs. It doesn’t matter which league or country it is, they should sanction clubs that don’t comply with this regulation” said Gomez.La Liga files a complaint to UEFA against PSG and CityThis is not the first action that La Liga took in the last year or two, on the contrary. First, they have a set of rules and Barcelona has been in financial plight for years now, so their inability to spend big in this transfer window is mainly due to the fact that La Liga is preventing them, since they are not solvent. Then they complained to UEFA against PSG and Manchester City for breaching the financial rules. And finally they were prepared to go on strike due to the new law in Spain which will allow the clubs to participate in the Super League.##NAJAVA_MECA_6989139##
