“Everything we’ve done is legal. I want to show my face because I have nothing to hide. It’s not that I’m hiding, it’s that I feel proud of what we’ve done in Kosmos,” said the defender after midnight. “The only illegal thing is to filter the audios”, he has fired after considering that there is no conflict of interest. “A commercial issue has nothing to do with a result issue on the field. Can you imagine that the referees whistled for us?”, He has dealt with one of the questions.
The confidential had revealed early on Monday that after the negotiation between the Barcelona center-back and the president of the Federation, Luis Rubialesthe contract guaranteed the RFEF 40 million euros per edition and Kosmos four for each of the six years (24 in total).
This medium also provided the audio of the conversations between Rubiales and Pique throughout the process: «Let’s see, Rubi, if it’s a matter of money, if they [el Real Madrid] For 8 they would go, hell, man, you pay eight to Madrid and eight to Barça… the others are paid 2 and 1… There are 19, and you keep the federation for six kilos, man. Before you keep nothing, you keep six kilos. And we put pressure on Saudi Arabia and maybe we’ll get him out… We tell him that if not, Madrid won’t go… and we’ll get one more stick or two more sticks…», argued Piqué. «[El representante de Arabia Saudí] he would keep 10% of 25, two and a half, and they would pay you 22 and a half. The commission would be separate, they would pay it, don’t worry about that. He is simply saying that you consider the possibility that, instead of taking the commission out of the equation, you count on the fact that the commission is included in the price, ”he indicated to the president of the RFEF.
The defense, who does not understand “the commotion” for a news that already came out in 2019, has pointed out on Twitch that the 10% commission is a “standard market figure, according to what the agencies charge.” “Regarding the caches, it is an audio out of context. I am helping the president to find a formula for Rubiales that is logical but it is a 100% decision of the RFEF,” he added.
Piqué has valued the agreement for the Federation. “Before he took 120,000 euros for the competition, then 40 million. Never in my life am I going to ask for help for anything,” he pointed out before stating that he has no other agreement with the RFEF. “I don’t know if they are going for me or for the Federation, but what is clear is the bad intention of filtering the audios illegally”, he remarked before assuring that this case will not make him advance his withdrawal: “This gives me for a couple more years.”