Spanish Super Cup: Real Madrid, Barcelona to earn €6.5 million; Valencia unhappy

The Supercopa de Espana officials recently released the schedules and dates of the competition. Real Madrid will be playing Valencia on January 1, 2019, and Barcelona will be up against Atletico Madrid on January 9, 2019. According to reports, Barcelona and Real Madrid will be making €6.5 million to participate in the competition. While other teams like Valencia have just been guaranteed  €2.5 million to participate in the newly formed concept of Supercopa de Espana in January. According to reports, Valencia have raised a complaint about the uneven distribution of the participation fee, with other Spanish giants guaranteed to earn much more.

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Spanish Super Cup: More about the news

The president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, informed that the said prize money was initially agreed by Anil Murthy (Valencia's president) himself during a dinner in Mallorca. Rubiales stated in an interview that it is strange to receive complaints from Anil Murthy when he himself asked for  €1.5 million to participate in the competition over the dinner. Luis further explained the break down of the prize money and said that it is broken down in three parts. The first ( €800k) is awarded for participating in the tournament. The second is determined by how well teams do in the tournament. The third is determined by previous honours won by the club, in which Valencia will earn  €1.7 million compared to Real Madrid's  €6 million.

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