The explosive clash between Barcelona and La Liga has taken an unexpected turn, with the club making a stunning move.
Barcelona’s public spat with La Liga over the leaked financial information on VIP ticket sales appears to have reached a tentative stalemate, with Barcelona yet to pursue its earlier threats of official action in the courts.
Following on from a strongly-worded statement denouncing La Liga’s “breach of trust and confidence” last week after the league’s public release of sensitive financial information early in April.,
Barcelona has curiously yet to file a formal complaint with Spain’s Sports Council (CSD) that many had anticipated would follow as per Mundo Deportivo.
That step comes although such a course of action would potentially have had extreme consequences for La Liga president Javier Tebas through Spain’s Administrative Court of Sport (TAD) if found to have broken confidentiality deals.
Failure to pursue the complaint may be the result of La Liga’s speedy containment, including the removal of the offending release and claiming that the information was already out in the public sphere through media reporting, although stopping significantly short of any real apology.
With the critical summer transfer window approaching, Barcelona may well be weighing the option that a tenuous truce with the league establishment is more in their interests than pursuing the war further, with their longstanding issues with Financial Fair Play restrictions.
The short-term truce, however, serves to do nothing to dispel underlying tensions between club and league authorities, and appears to hold the promise of a repeat confrontation in the making as Barcelona continues to play La Liga’s tough controls on finance off against attempts to remain competitive in Spain and abroad.
The incident helps to bring to light the delicate balance clubs must maintain between the defense of their institutional interests and remaining on good terms with ruling bodies, and Barcelona’s policy currently being an intelligent, if somewhat uncharacteristic, exercise of discretion rather than confrontation here.
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