Spanish Football League (LFP) President Javier Tebas said that Spanish football clubs "are losing hundreds of millions of euros" from the delay in the approval of a law that would "require the centralized sale of TV rights," according to the EFE. Tebas said the failure to "meet the deadlines scheduled for the approval of such a law" means a "very significant loss, of hundreds of millions of euros" for clubs. He said that government approval of the "Real Decreto" is the only way to allow Spanish clubs to multiply their TV revenue, which is currently a total of €800M ($913M) per year. Tebas: "The Real Decreto would help us to grow, although we will not be able to approach these values [of the EPL's new deal] because reaching 15 million pay-TV subscribers does not happen in five, six or seven years." Spain currently has around 4.5 million pay-TV subscribers (EFE, 2/11). The EP reported Mediapro Founder Jaume Roures said, "In Spain we have less than 3 million pay-TV subscribers, and in England there are 15 million. There is no piracy there or games on free-TV, the clubs are better compensated, the fields are green and for the derby I couldn't see the grass" (EP, 2/12).
