The FC Barcelona and the Real Madrid expressed on Wednesday November 30 their refusal to participate in the general assembly of La Liga scheduled for December 7 in Dubai, which they consider disproportionate to organize so far from Spain, and hasty.
An event that can take place at La Liga headquarters
The Real “will not send any representative to Dubai” and the Catalan club “will not attend” to this extraordinary general meeting convened urgently by La Liga, informed the two flagship clubs of the championship in respective press releases. Scheduled for the United Arab Emirates, this assembly is to discuss changes to the regulations and statutes of the Spanish championship.
The Madrid club judged ” illegal “ to convene the clubs “more than 5,000 km from the headquarters of La Liga” et “completely inappropriate and deeply inconsistent for La Liga to make such financial outlays”. Barça, who also believes that this event “might take place at La Liga headquarters”judged like his rival that this summons, sent on November 25, was precipitated.
The regulatory changes that will be discussed there “require greater preliminary debate (and) more in-depth and participatory analysis”, criticized the Blaugrana club. The two most successful and richest clubs in the Spanish league have recently joined forces on several issues of tension and disagreement with La Liga.
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Real and Barça are still defending, with Juventus Turin, the Superleague project, the aim of which is to compete with the Champions League, but which was rejected last year, in particular by La Liga. At the end of October, almost all of the Spanish first and second division teams also threatened to strike once morest a bill which they accuse, if adopted as it stands, of benefiting only big clubs like Real or Barca.
