In full desire to attract a young audience, the president of League, Javier Tebasaccording to the official football distributor in Spain, Movistar +has increased the price for the umpteenth time to be able to watch its championship and the Europeans on television. This increase, which will come into force on January 13, 2025will affect Spanish fans from the start of the new year and many of them have already publicly protested on social media, once again highlighting the end of piracy.
That crime that Thebes pursues so much with letters of fear and fines for anonymous people, this is what it indirectly promotes with its multiple price increases. This alienates the majority of fans who He can’t go to a stadium to enjoy his team.but they also cannot afford excessive packages to, in most cases, watch one or two matches at most per week.
Piracy is once again on the lips of Spain after the price of the total football package, which includes the League and European competitions (Champions, Europa League And Conference), increased by 8.8%. From January 2025, it increases to 49 euros per month compared to 45 euros until now.
These figures are unaffordable for many people who, to support their team, are forced to resort to illegal online platforms. a practice that Tebas wants to eliminate at all costsbut for which the Costa Rican does not help at all. In fact, the only thing he achieves is spread fear with these letters to anonymous users who distribute their product in a way that does not interest them.
Tebas does not lower prices, does not offer other options than the traditional subscription to a package with a telephone company for its own benefit… concentrates everything on a League which devalues even morethe more expensive it becomes. For context, the last increase occurred just six months ago, May 13So, when the new one comes into effect, the president will only have given an eight-month respite.
Tebas destroys Florentino’s proposal
Anyone who promotes alternatives, contrary to the virulent critics of Thebes, is Florentino Pérez. The president of the real Madrid proposed with the creation of Super League and its platform Unifywhich would be very similar to other streaming services like Netflix at the cinema or Spotify in the field of music, a way to set single prices for all content and thus help to eradicate piracy.
In the Assembly of the white club last Sunday, Florentino explained that “our beloved sport is seriously injured. “The situation has never been as deteriorated as today.” He also stressed that the “The Super League’s proposal to give away football for free is innovative” and he assures that today he is “more optimistic than ever”.
However, although he was a pioneer in this and other fields, Florentino incurred the scorn of Thebes the next day: “Free football? And free bread, free tobacco, free gin and free shot. Good luck, of course. This ridiculous comparison earned Tebas an avalanche of criticism on the networks, but the owner of the most expensive league in Europe He reprimanded almost all the positions proposed to the Assembly by the president of Real Madrid.
