Spanish football is on edge at the moment after the RFEF took the decision to ban games from being played on Fridays and Mondays.
Failure to fill these slots will put contracts worth 2.3 billion euros at risk, just for 2019/20 alone, and has already had television operators around the world warning that they will take the necessary measures to ensure the deals they signed are honoured.
Networks like Sky, DAZN, One Sport, Mediapro, Movistar, IMGMedia and Direct TV have all written to LaLiga to request that the games are scheduled as agreed, on Fridays and Mondays.
The networks are arguing that these games have been played for nine years and are televised worldwide, and not just in Spain. The slots prevent for fixtures overlapping and give Spanish football a market edge, providing money that benefits Spain's clubs.
To the courts on August 7
Beyond what's been said, a judge will decide what happens. LaLiga will ask for precautionary measures to be taken, while the RFEF will argue their case that they don't want games played then.
What won't happen, according to LaLiga sources, is that even if those precautionary measure are denied, the Federation will not receive the requested payment of 30-35 million euros.
Against grassroots football
Additionally, the decision to only play on weekends is detrimental to lower levels, as it gives non-professional cubs less flexibility and less of an opportunity to gain public attention.
The Wednesday assembly
All professional clubs meet in LaLiga to discuss the measures to be taken. For all clubs but Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Valencia, TV revenues amount to at least 60 percent of their budget, with some cases even rising as high as 90 percent.
TV money has sanitised Spanish football and managed to settle debts, but now things are at risk again.
The RFEF's version
The Federation see it differently. They explain that they proposed a gradual decrease of games on Fridays and Mondays to LaLiga, eventually leading to their disappearance, but LaLiga refused.
They are also unhappy about the decision to announce the first three rounds of LaLiga fixtures ahead of a meeting that was scheduled to discuss precisely that.
Afa_darry
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RFEF sucks
Josejob
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You want your teams to sign players of hundreds of millions, but then you don't want the teams to maximize the benefits based on television contracts that increase with the diversification of schedules.
Adrianer
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Well, I don't watch football, neither Friday, nor Saturday, nor Sunday, nor Monday ... unless I am super bored and have nothing else to do ... the good thing is that I almost always have something else to do. And obviously I don't see it on a pay TV.
Marryhoward
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The clubs are interested in that money from the TV so they have to swallow with the schedules importing little fans who pay their annual fees or tickets. A measure to take would be no one to go to the field in those days so that both clubs and LFP, FEF realize
Enocheric
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That they name the football base already seems to me as a court guard, to send them to the mobile white tomatina ... and if Mr. Thebes wants matches for the week he distributes the ballots with which it is up to everyone to see what happens .
Johnhall
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Well, neither for you nor for me, Monday's game is taken off and Friday's game is left.
hoisted
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The same ones who criticize this measure of playing Friday and Monday are those who later criticize that a measure is not taken so that the stars do not leave LaLiga to other competitions for tax benefits, are those who say: "That saved from fertilizers, I will continue to support my team, but they are very expensive "and those who pay the entrance to boo football players and managers. Soccer is a business and if you don't like it as such, don't consume it, period. Quick example: If you go to a fruit shop and the fruit bowl puts the bad fruit on you, you don't come back, because this is the same, if you don't want soccer on Mondays and Fridays you don't see it and don't go to the stadium on those dates. PS: No, I have not been to a stadium in my life or I have PPV, I watch football for free on the internet.
teenager
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Against the Fenerbahçe that comes from losing 6-1 the youngest will play, they will win since they have a better team than the Turks, and the press will use it to get 100 opportunistic items to keep people happy. Do you bet something?
ukraine
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These problems are reached when an undocumented person is put in charge of the RFEF.
uglyboy
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I vote to return to the games on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. and a couple of them on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. as about 20 years ago, how fun it was to watch a derby on the south channel!
Radionicse
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As a member of a club, it seems painful that I don't think of ourselves, and that my club doesn't play on Mondays and just Fridays, but it's painful. If there are clubs that do want the game on Mondays, it is simple, that they sign up for volunteers and put them home games that day, we will see if they last long
hamaka
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I honestly believe that we should turn our backs on elite soccer for 2 or 3 months. No one in the stadiums. Let's see if the clubs get it
Jessicaa
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The good thing you can watch football any day and any time. Unfortunately, the fan doesn't paint anything unfortunately, if you can see it well, if you don't screw up ... Like ordinary citizens in Spain ... But the membership fees are what he commands. And the more he has the more they play with the schedules . Of course, you will have to adapt to when you play against my Espanyol. The schedules are largely sent by us. In China alone, a Spanish match is watched by a total of 25% of Chinese. Lonque would be the entire population of Spain, all and all its TV watching the game and its Wu lei. That .... gives a lot of money to the federation.
RichardAllen
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What the clubs should do, is to have the calendar made with the days they have to play on Mondays and Fridays and the schedule, surely half or more of the members were deleted. It is a tease to play on Monday at 9 pm and the fans the next day to work almost without sleep. Todxs do not have the Thebes stand to rest.
Guccilife
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I vote to go back to the way it was 20 years ago, a couple of games on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and the rest on Sunday at 5 p.m. and open games, how fun it was to watch a derby on the south channel example!
languider
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I don't like Monday's games, as a partner, I can't see my team, the one on Friday doesn't seem bad to me, but the only problem I see on the part of the RFEF is the 30 or 35 million that don't want them give, if they look for the good of football, talk to the clubs that are the ones that need the money.
portrait
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And the media playing the game with Thebes. The chaos is generated by the League with its schedules contrary to all logic and I am sorry but I do not think that eliminating the game on Monday will cause so much damage when we all know the audience that party has.
koalaal
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I never thought that a measure taken for the benefit of players and spectators could be attacked by the media, that last season they made editorials against the 12 o'clock matches and denounced that the clubs had to resort to bottles, hats and fans ... From When has Marca become a panegyric of Thebes?
makefile
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At the premier, several games overlap at the same time. In Germany the same, Italy, France ... only in this dilapidated country does this happen.
Mahendraer
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I understand people who complain that Mondays and Fridays are bad for the amateur. But we also criticize that in the Premier there is much more pasta and that the teams are stronger for it. If we do not adopt the Premier model, in 10 years it will not be necessary to put the games on Saturday because it will not be worth going to see the mediocre teams that will be there. Of course also adopt the Premier economic distribution model.
eventual
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Last sentence of the article: "The collapse generated by the RFEF with this decision facing national football." What kind of writing is that? Clearly incomplete phrase. What a level of "journalists" in the Spanish sports press.
Perfectbr
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I went back to years ago: all the games on Sunday at the same time except some that are played on Saturday. Hala All to the field.
birdnana
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According to Thebes, each club will play a maximum of two games on Monday or Friday, including Barça and Madrid. If it is true, something that coming from Thebes is the least doubtful, I think it would be fair and otherwise necessary, not only because there are signed contracts, but because there is a lot of money that is at stake
ointmentae
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From now on you have to eat at 4 pm every day, and I will choose the menu, it is not going to be that you choose, in your house, what and when to eat.
Georgiana
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Professional football is increasingly disgusting. Between bookmakers, schedules and game days and players' salaries, the only thing that matters to them is money and nothing the fans, the club and the city they represent, make you want to spend football forever.
ballstar
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that they stop matches Friday and Monday and that they focus on better distributing the club budget, we would see a more decent, powerful and competitive league, Rubiales does well by removing those games that harm the one that really makes a team survive, the amateur
kevery33
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The premier does not play Monday and Friday and still sells her television rights for triple the money, so milongas to others. What had to be done is to ask how not even in the time of Messi, Cristiano and Neymar were we able to approach the premier offers. It is as if I have an audi and my neighbor a dacia, we both put them up for sale and they pay more to him. Very bad you have to be negotiating. If they are not able to get more money at least respect the fan.
memoria
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For them three are the key points: the parties on Mondays and Fridays have been consolidated over 9 years and are already a television habit not only in Spain, but in other leagues such as the Premier (and others that will adopt it ). Let's analyze this part of the writing. Why do they want to deceive us with the fact that the Friday and Monday matches have been consolidated? Who really benefits those games at those times? That those parties tune the bars, to put something on TV, does not mean they have an audience. As always, the injured, those who are really followers of the team, but of course, before a handful of euros what can be done ..
osatrab
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It is a tease for the amateur and especially for the subscriber, that football matches are played, on Fridays and Mondays, because many people due to working hours cannot attend such meetings.