Rui Alves lays into André Villas-Boas over TV rights: “He’s clueless” | OneFootball

Rui Alves once again criticized André Villas-Boas, president of FC Porto, in statements to Antena 1 regarding the centralization of television rights. The Nacional official believes that the proposal presented by his club is the one that best safeguards the interests of all clubs, unlike the solution defended by the League, which, in his view, only benefits the big four.

“The inequality ratio in France, Germany and Italy is 1 to 3, in Spain it is 1 to 3.5, and the League’s proposal in Portugal, to protect the usual suspects, is 1 to 8.5. It was not with this intention that the government took a political position on this matter. It would be very interesting if the clubs, democratically, approved Nacional’s proposal, which is the only one that defends the interests of football and its sustainability. The sustainability of football is not that of four clubs. I would like to see the legal path that Mr. André Villas-Boas, who on this matter is ignorant, would pursue,” said Rui Alves, after Villas-Boas’s threat that FC Porto would move forward with legal action if Nacional’s proposal goes ahead.

“Nacional’s proposal clearly does not have the support of those who are now the biggest beneficiaries and who every year take millions from others competing in the same League. I am not surprised by some of the nonsense from Mr. André Villas-Boas, who unfortunately has stooped to a very low level of comment on this matter. Mr. André Villas-Boas understands very little about football to know what the sustainability of a professional competition is. From his point of view, it rests only on the interests of FC Porto, Benfica and Sporting,” Rui Alves added.

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