Javier Tebas: La Liga doesn’t miss Cristiano Ronaldo

Javier Tebas insists La Liga does not miss Real Madrid icon Cristiano Ronaldo as ‘we’ve worked to make its brand above any one player or club’.

Madrid have struggled in their first season without Ronaldo, going over six hours without a goal and four games without a win, but Tebas made it clear La Liga was not weakened by the No 7’s exit.

“I would like to have all the best players and all the best managers. I would like to have Mourinho and Guardiola for example,” the League’s chief told The Daily Mail.

“We have worked to make La Liga’s brand above any one player or club. Four years ago him leaving would have worried me, on a scale of one to 10, I would have said nine.

“Now it worries me, on a scale of one to 10, four, or even three. If we follow the strategy of the Premier League, they haven’t had a Ballon d’Or since Michael Owen and he is now playing the ’Legends’ circuit.

“And they have not had a lot of players in the ideal 11 of FifPro either, but it keeps on being the League that generates the most income in the world.

“And that shows that if you have a brand which is what the Premier League has, then it’s not necessary to have the best players to have the best league in the world.”

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