Piqué unsuccessfully tried to appeal to the emeritus king to sign with Saudi Arabia

Gerard Piqué unsuccessfully tried to appeal to King Emeritus Juan Carlos I so that the Spanish Football Federation (FEF) signed its contract with Saudi Arabia to transfer the Spanish Super Cup to that country, which paid a commission of 24 million euros to the Barcelona footballer for the dispute of the tournament for six years. Don Juan Carlos confirmed this Tuesday that Piqué contacted him to hold a meeting in Abu Dhabi and check if there was any possibility that, given the good relations of the king emeritus with Saudi Arabia, he could help in the negotiation carried out by the Catalan player and the FEF.

However, Juan Carlos I rejected a meeting with Piqué to get involved in the ‘Super Cup case’. “(Piqué) came to Abu Dhabi to present his Davis Cup and I told him very kindly that he would not be here,” the king emeritus replied to the footballer and owner of the Kosmos company, according to Juan Carlos I through a WhatsApp sent to ‘ Public mirror’. “Susanna, categorically deny it,” the king emeritus claimed to Susanna Griso during the live broadcast of the Antena 3 program.

«Rubi, do you think that getting closer to the King… can help… that he has a very good relationship with the people there, with the kings or whoever is from the Saudis? Because we can get in easy. I know it’s… You, I guess you can come in too… But I think the King here could help us for sure. The emeritus, hey!” Piqué told the president of the FEF, Luis Rubiales, in an audio published this Tuesday exclusively by ‘El Confidencial’. “Ugh, if we jump from the Federation to the Government… it will take its toll on us. Another thing is that you do it, but you are going to get involved. I don’t know,” Rubiales replied to Piqué, to which the Barça defender replied: “Perfect.”

Piqué later contacted Rubiales again to insist on a possible collaboration of the king emeritus. “We do not work for you. We work for the Saudis. So… From the Saudis we want to get closer to the King and we do it, “Piqué assured Rubiales, who confirmed to the Barça footballer that the one who should carry out the contacts with Juan Carlos I should be him. “You take care of this,” settled the head of the FEF, an organization that charged 40 million euros from Saudi Arabia to bring the Super Cup there.

Aware that sooner rather than later the audio in which Piqué mentions the king emeritus during his conversations with Rubiales would come to light, the culé footballer did not deny early Tuesday morning that he wanted Juan Carlos I to intercede in the negotiations between the FEF and Saudi Arabia. «They told me that there is an audio in which I speak mentioning the king emeritus. I don’t remember, but I understood that at that time he could help us through his contacts. I think it was a payment issue, that they didn’t pay,” the Blaugrana central defender commented during his press conference on Twitch, where he defended the “legality” of his commission and insisted that “there is no conflict of interest” for owning Kosmos , Barça footballer and owner of Andorra, who is currently the leader of his group in the First RFEF.