Tebas slams Real Madrid and Perez over ESL plans

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has scolded Florentino Perez and Real Madrid saying they will 'destroy' leagues

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00:00 There are more than 54,000 professional players.

00:04 Players who earn 2,000 euros a month and others who earn 2 million euros a month.

00:10 And a model is being built with respect to 15 clubs, 20 big European clubs,

00:18 forgetting the whole ecosystem that is going to be damaged.

00:20 Salaries, if the national leagues drop in income by 65%, clubs will disappear.

00:26 Players' salaries will decrease a lot.

00:30 Obviously, not for the big players and big clubs.

00:33 But the ecosystem will be broken.

00:35 That's why we have to be radically against this project.

00:39 The only thing we are looking for is to consolidate this idea of Florentino Pérez

00:42 that football must be managed and everything revolves around the most active players.

00:49 It's like if in a country they had to send the banks.

00:52 That would be a disaster for the country.

00:56 The banks have to manage their own banks, but they don't manage the country.

00:58 The same with football. Florentino is a great manager of Real Madrid.

01:02 I give him a 10 out of 10 as a manager of Madrid.

01:06 As a manager of European competitions or competitions, a zero.

01:12 Therefore, we have to be against this model because it destroys the ecosystem.

01:16 That's why I call Bernd Rijkaard "Berr Copperfield".

01:22 He wants to deceive us so much with his magic tricks.

01:28 But I call him Copperfield and not another magician

01:31 because his tricks are like Niagara Falls.

01:34 They are so tremendous that how can he say that he doesn't harm the national leagues?