Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), has requested that at the organization’s next Assembly, in view of the suspicions generated by the ‘Super Cup case’ change the model of their remuneration and move to a fixed salary plus the CPI.
In statements to the Antena 3 Public Mirror program, later ratified on Telecinco and La Sexta, he explained again, as he did at the press conference held on Wednesday, that his current salary is approved by the Assembly, and that it consists of an amount more another based on economic success.
“It is not conditioned to Madrid arriving or not arriving (to the Super Cup) or to play the Cup final. It is conditional on the success of the management”, insisted Rubiales, that in his opinion the suspicions would be justified if he or someone called a referee to whistle one way or another, which would also be “crime”.
“But after what ‘Cholo’ (Simeone) has said, that there is a social response that I, as president, can have a variable today, I have spoken with different departments in the Federation to request that in the next assembly , retroactively, a salary is set whose only variable from now on is the CPI,” he announced.
Rubiales recalled that “any CEO” of a sports competition, organization or club with good management “charges three million, two, or one and a half.” “We did not want to burden the federation with this. So with a good intention It was about looking for a smaller fixed part and the rest that was for success. That was the totally positive intention and above all economic caution.”
“But given what has been seen, that the salary be set based on what would correspond to me this year, that it be left in a consolidated manner and point and end. But I am not going to put nor three and a half million as the president of the league charges nor two and a half million as a CEO of any team earns. A football club or a Federation that has a CEO with 400 million revenues does not charge 600,000 euros, it charges much more, much more, whoever is in football knows it, “he argued .
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For Rubiales, the fact that Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, receives three million is an exaggeration. “I did not want to do the same with the Federation. If you take away the television rights of the League and the Federation we generate much more than LaLiga. We did not want to burden the Federation with such a large salary. I’m not criticizing him, but I don’t want to do the same. Given that there is suspicion, controversy, even a coach says that there may be doubt, the doubts are over, a fixed salary plus IPC, “he insisted.
Tebas once again recalled that the entire operation to hold the Super League in Saudi Arabia is legal, that it passed all the official filters of good governance and ethics, and that he has not “charged any commission, neither legal nor illegal”, which is He has created a “false story”, as well as stressed again that he is the victim of a hunt and denied that he had starred in a compadre with Barcelona player Gerard Piqué, whose company, Kosmos, acted as an intermediary before the Arab country.