FC Barcelona has participated today in the Assembly of the Spanish Professional Football League (LFP) at which its agreement with CVC Central Partners, the investment fund that is to become an industry partner of La Liga, was presented and submitted to a vote.
FC Barcelona, represented by its Director of Football, Mateu Alemany, has positioned itself against the agreement which, and at the last minute, has included a clause that stipulates that the television rights of the clubs that have voted against the motion shall remain intact and that these shall be under no obligation to receive the financial injection that shall affect the next fifty years of life of the body.
Note that Barça, as well as Real Madrid and Athletic Club, the three first division clubs that have not signed the agreement, defend their membership and assembly-based ownership systems, with boards of directors chosen by their members for limited mandates, reasons that support the inconvenience of accepting mortgages on their assets (such as in this case the transfer of their television rights) for the next half century, moreover considering the ongoing transformation and evolution of the football world
