La Liga president Javier Tebas has retaliated against criticism from Pep Guardiola and accused Manchester City of “economic doping”.
Guardiola had previously suggested that Tebas could learn from those who run the Premier League and point to the revenue gap between the two organizations.
But La Liga’s top manager soon responded and took to Twitter to address the criticism.
“In recent years, we have reduced the distance to the Premier League despite the fact that La Liga has sold its television rights centrally for only seven years, compared to Premier’s 30 [years], “he wrote, as reported by Marca.
“In addition, the UK has twenty million more inhabitants than Spain. We are growing every year. Our clubs have been serving for seven years. You have to worry more about City Group, which has accumulated a billion in losses in recent seasons. They are not investors. “They are money-destroyers who create inflation. Would you have won so many titles without financial doping?”
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This is not the first time that La Liga’s head honcho has hit City’s business model. Citizens are – together with Paris Saint-Germain, which has also attracted Teba’s ire – effectively owned by a state.
They have been criticized for various financial tactics, including agreeing on commercial deals with state-contracting companies at massively inflated prices, which will have helped clubs cover the astronomical salaries and transfer fees they have recently paid.
Despite City’s apparent wealth, Guardiola recently insisted the club could not afford a replacement for the club’s record shooter Sergio Aguero, who joined Barcelona on a free transfer earlier this month.
They have been strongly linked to Tottenham talisman Harry Kane, who recently made an opening bid of 100 million pounds. They are also interested in Jack Grealish and are willing to break the Premier League record to get him.
