The broadcast of some audios between the Barcelona defender and Luis Rubiales, in addition to other documents, has established that the player’s company, Kosmos, received a commission of several million euros to withdraw the competition from the country.
Spain is experiencing a new scandal. This time linked to the Supercopa de España whose last versions were held in Saudi Arabia after a millionaire agreement between the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the Kosmos company, owned by Gerard Pique .
This is how they revealed The confidential which, through a series of documents and audios, established that the Barcelona player received a commission of several million euros for taking the tournament from Spain to Saudi Arabia, where he has been playing since 2020 with a four-team format.
Initially, the proposal established that the final would be played at the Camp Nou due to the large capacity that the coliseum allows to receive.
“As (Real) Madrid is going to tell me no, it comes from hell to justify us and say that (the Camp Nou) is the stadium with the greatest capacity “, offered Rubiales.
“It would be a good idea to do everything there. Maybe instead of renting for half a kilo [millón de euros] each game you can rent it more expensive and gain two kilos or two and a half kilos. Barça has a margin of activity there”.
A few days later, Pique appeared with another alternative. This helped bring the Super Cup to Saudi Arabia. “If it’s a question of money, if they (Real Madrid) for eight (million euros) would go (to Saudi Arabia), eight are paid to Madrid, eight to Barça, the others (finalist teams) are paid two and one, there are 19 years old and the Federation ends up with six kilos “, he pointed out.
Moreover, alluding to the economic power of the country, he offered to pressure them with the fact that the meringues did not want to travel. “Before you keep nothing, you keep six kilos and we squeeze Saudi Arabia, we tell them that Madrid may not go, and we still take a stick or two sticks ”.
The commission interviewed at Kosmos
According to the president of the Spanish federation, the Kosmos company was only an intermediary to bring the Super Cup to Saudi Arabia and the RFEF never made any payment to them. However, the report establishes that Pique’s company got up to four million euros for each edition that would be held, ie 24 million euros for six seasons.
In the end, the agreement settled at 25 million euros for the first edition and the defender’s company commission was less than this amount, reducing the amount of money the federation could receive.
“Rubi, he (the representative of Saudi Arabia) is not referring to the commission you pay. He is referring… it’s that in the end we tried to remove the commission of 25 million. You therefore received the 25 million without the commission. So what he’s saying is that we don’t push him too hard and that the commission is included in the 25 (…) Don’t worry about that. It simply says to consider, instead of taking commission out of the equation, to expect commission to go into the price. You understand? “raised Pique.
Already on September 15, 2019, Rubiales congratulated Pique, the agreement having already been concluded: “Gery, congratulations. And I’m not talking about the big game yesterday or your goal. I mean it’s already after 12 o’clock and therefore the agreement with Saudi Arabia is firm. A hug, thank you for everything and I’m here for whatever you need ”.
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Source: Latercera
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