Roig eager to rub salt in the wounds
Villarreal’s General Manager Fernando Roig has once again launched an attack on Real Mallorca claiming that “Mallorca has done nothing to avoid their situation. If UEFA had allowed them into Europe, we might as well all go bankrupt. It’s very convenient not to pay all the money you owe.”
And, has been the case all summer, the club couldn’t let the provocation lie to rest and has reacted angrily. It’s first disappointment being that Roig was happy to see the club go closer to going out of business by being removed from the competition. Los Bermellones, getting right down to the point, posted 3 bullet points as to why they are unhappy with Roig’s comments. They are as follows:
- The Bankruptcy Act is a way to enable a business’ continuity and defend the company from any decision that harms it’s creditors and the club’s financial viability. The proposal to bring down a team in a competition is against the law.
- Villarreal CF has the biggest artificial economic structure in Spanish football, being dependent upon just a single financial partner. They currently have debts of £197.5 million (officially released figures), an amount much bigger than the club itself (the club has a similar stature to Real Mallorca – with the latters debts up to around £50 million at it’s worst point). Therefore it’s future relies upon one shareholder who, if he chooses at any point to leave, would see the immediate disappearance of the club.
- RCD Mallorca once again deplores the lack of respect and sportsmanship shown towards our club, which has been seriously harmed by an unjust decision of UEFA. The club has developed a hard adjustment plan to address it’s debts under the tutelage of the administrators and new owners. But the situation isn’t peculiar. It’s all too common. We have not lent the most by any means, and we are now doing something about it.
They also took the time to reaffirm their thoughts on Platini and his latest comments and wanted to remind both parties that the matter comes up in court again on the 1st September. The club are hoping to recover £2.5 million and £3.2 million in damages via the courts after being, as they claim, unlawfully removed from the competition damaging their financial recovery.