La Liga Stopped Relying On The Big Names To Grow – Javier Tebas

La Liga president, Javier Tebas has come out to insist that losing Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t damage the Spanish league. He recently had his say while weighing in on Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid talk, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, both footballing heavyweights leaving La Liga did not cause any damage because the league refused to shrink itself regardless of the situation.

Tebas added that the fact that Ligue 1 still did not grow with Messi, Neymar and Mbappe in it is proof that it is not always about the big names.

His words, “[Messi and Ronaldo leaving] didn’t cause any damage because we didn’t shrink, but with them, we would certainly have grown faster. The French league with Messi, Neymar and Mbappe didn’t grow, Cristiano Ronaldo went to Italy and the Italian league’s international revenues didn’t increase, ours did even though we lost them both. The reason is that, both sponsors and audiovisual media, what they care most about is that the competition is economically sustainable, that seven years later it continues to be very competitive and that in Spain there are always very good players, this year we have the best of the world that is [Jude[ Bellingham, last season [Robert] Lewandowski was at a great level, Atletico has [Antoine] Griezmann, if Mbappe comes that will help us to be more competitive and grow even faster.”

“Adding up the budgets of all first division teams, the Premier League’s total budget is 1.8 times larger than La Liga, but we are in a sector where not everything is economics, there is also the sporting part and, in this aspect, our European history in recent years is ahead, we have won 60 per cent of the titles, in the current Champions League there are four Spanish and two English teams, what we have to see in football is the balance between the two aspects, the sporting and the economic, in the first we are better, in the second the Premier League wins.”

WOW.