In November 2019, several media outlets revealed that Gerard Piqué, through his company Kosmos, was going to receive four million from the Arab country for each of the editions of the Spanish Super Cup for acting as a connector with the Spanish Federation. Now two and a half years later The confidential reveals how the operation went. The aforementioned media ensures who has accessed conversations, documents and audios that show that both joined forces to collect a multimillion-dollar commission for holding the Super Cup there.
According to information from The confidential, supported by documents and audios, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) pressured the Riyadh authorities to pay the FC Barcelona player, through his company, Kosmos, up to 24 million euros for playing the tournament in that country and then tried to hide the player’s participation in the contract. as published The confidential, Kosmos, who mediated the contract, secured the payment of four million a year for each of the first six editions of the tournament to be played in Riyadh.
The information of The confidential baptized as super cup files makes public the content of the audio that Rubiales sent to Piqué when the pact with Saudi Arabia was closed: “Geri, congratulations. And I’m not referring to yesterday’s great game or your goal. I’m referring to the fact that it’s already past 12 o’clock and therefore the agreement with Saudi Arabia is already firm. A hug, thanks for everything and here I am for whatever you need. Well, except for some little things that you almost better not need me (laughs). Come on, a big hug. Take care buddy”.
According to The confidentialbefore speaking with Riyadh, at the end of 2018, andhe president of the RFEF and the player planned for the tournament to be played at the Camp Nou and even talked about how to convince Real Madrid to do so. “I’m also going to see this with Madrid. I think Madrid is going to say no to me. As Madrid is going to tell me no, that comes from hell to justify us for the future and we say that it is the stadium with the largest capacity (Camp Nou), that it is the League champion (FC Barcelona), that it is the Cup champion or Cup finalist (FC Barcelona)… I think we have legitimacy “, Rubiales commented to Piqué.