Actual Madrid and La Liga are by no means wanting variations of opinion, and fairly of typically these disputes flip authorized. This week Los Blancos newest grievance comes within the type of funding for Liga F, the ladies’s league.
In keeping with Relevo, Actual Madrid Normal Director Jose Angel Sanchez instructed La Liga President Javier Tebas “It’s an excessive amount of. We have now to chop it,” though the adjective they used was ‘spat’. The incident occurred on the Meeting of Golf equipment, and noticed loads of dialogue from the opposite members of the assembly. ‘JAS’ as he’s identified additionally had a member of the Actual Madrid authorized group with him at La Liga’s places of work.
#RealMadrid Normal Director Jose Angel Sanchez has instructed La Liga President Tebas that funding for Liga F, the ladies’s league, ought to be reduce. (Relevo)
La Liga gave €8m to Liga F this yr, from a funds for 42 golf equipment.
Actual Madrid had an earnings of €1.163b within the 23-24 season. pic.twitter.com/9B4ltOOB2r
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This season La Liga contributed €8m to Liga F, a part of five-year funding package deal price €40m, of which that is the third yr. The primary two noticed contributions of €6m, and the latter two will see €10m contributions from La Liga’s general earnings. La Liga consists of 42 golf equipment between Primera and Segunda, of which solely 13 are represented in Liga F, however unanimously the opposite golf equipment are in settlement for the funding. It ought to be famous that Actual Madrid are a kind of golf equipment concerned in Liga F.
Liga F have suffered some monetary setbacks in recent times, with former sponsor Finetwork failing to hold out their cost. The league additionally earns cash by way of TV rights with DAZN, and €20m per yr from the Ministry for Sport (CSD). They’re additionally awarding €19.5m over that interval for tasks to assist the event of ladies’s soccer. The suggestion is that Actual Madrid will not be blissful given the squeeze that’s being placed on their accounts, past what is happening with Liga F.
Actual Madrid have been criticised previously for his or her lack of funding for the ladies’s group, with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid spending far more and earlier on their girls’s groups. In 2019, Actual Madrid bought an already current girls’s membership within the Spanish capital known as CD Tacon, after which modified their identify to Actual Madrid Femenino. They had been one of many final high groups in Europe to inaugurate a girls’s group, and positively appears an odd level to take a stand on, for a membership that boasted an earnings of greater than €1b final season.