‘Bread, and tobacco, and gin, and shots...’ - Tebas responds to Florentino Perez proposal

La Liga president Javier Tebas, one of the guests on Monday at the gala of the Spanish Footballers' Association (AFE), used irony when asked if it is possible that football could be free in Spain.
"And bread, and tobacco, and gin, and shots.. All the best, of course, yes," said the president, laughing about the free football business model promoted by Florentino Perez.
In addition, Tebas reiterated that the Madrid president said things that are not true in the Assembly of partners on Sunday and assured that he "is sometimes out of touch with reality".
"The phantom amendment is not the way he said it, nor is the television issue of national rights what he said. The piracy issue is also not what he said. I hope that when he talks about his club, of which I am a fan, he is within reality and not out of reality, because it would worry me," he said.
Tebas said he was unaware of the type of change in the social structure that the Madrid president intends to propose to the members and maintained that the arguments of doing so to deal with La Liga's threats are not true.
"I don't know what he intends to do. It has taken him a long time to think of the excuse. I think there must be other reasons why he wants to change the format, I don't know, but certainly not those, because they are not true as he puts them. There must be other reasons that I think he is hiding from the social masses, but I am not going to go there. I think that the ownership of the club for its members would then be in danger. I don't know what he wants to propose, what I do know is that it is an excuse to change", he said.
Regarding the project launched by Florentino to work with Apple on the idea of "Bernabeu Infinito", so that members can experience the same sensations from home as if they were in the stadium, Tebas acknowledged that "he liked the concept", although it remains to be seen how the broadcasting rights to be commercialised by La Liga will be managed.
"I don't think it's a judicial clash, but we have to defend the rights of the clubs and joint marketing, which is what the law establishes," he concluded.