Piqué: “Everything we have done is legal, I’m going to expose my part in the conflict of interest I want to show my face because I have nothing to hide. I am proud of what we do at Kosmos.”
“Saudi Arabia was not the only option. The United States and Qatar were on the table. In the end, they decided to go to Saudi Arabia.”
“I have not gotten into Kosmos and doing business for money. As you can understand I have earned a very good living and I could spend my whole life stretched out on a sofa doing nothing. In the society in which we live, generating money means success and I like that.”
“I brought an opportunity for the RFEF. Before changing the format, they earned 120,000 euros for the competition, after the movement they earned 40 million euros.”
“El Confidencial called me a week ago and told me that this will come out. I told them that I don’t care. I don’t have to hide from anything.”
“You don’t have to be very smart to know who is behind the leaks.”
“Officially, we collect the commission directly from the Saudi Arabian government. In no case do we collect anything from the RFEF: four million euros (10% of the 40 million euros of the agreement). I don’t have any commercial agreement with the RFEF.”
“I recognise that it’s not usual for a player to be involved in this type of business because a player doesn’t do these things until he retires, but I like it. Do I have to apologise? For this? Well, I’m not going to do it, from here on let everyone think what they want.”
“Retiring? No, far from it. This whole situation gives me a few more years to compete.”
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