Evidence that Luis Rubiales paid Gerard Pique and his business, Kosmos, to help move the Supercopa de Espaa to Saudi Arabia has put him back under the spotlight.

Gerard Pique said that Rubiales asked Kosmos to move the event out of Spain during a live show on Twitch. This brought in millions of dollars for the Spanish Football Federation.

“The RFEF hired us to go abroad to look for possible ways to broadcast the Spanish Super Cup,” Pique said during a press meeting he streamed on his Twitch account. The Spanish magazine El Confidencial asked the Spanish star if he worked with Luis Rubiales in any way.

In his answer, Pique pointed out that he had already made a deal with Rubiales that gave him permission to talk with Saudi Arabia. For years, the Spanish Federation said that Pique had nothing to do with it.

Pique was still a player with Barcelona at the time. Pique got a fee of $25 million for getting Spanish football and Saudi Arabia to work together. In the deal between the two teams that moved the Supercopa to the Middle East, FC Barcelona only got $8 million.

Gerard Pique has asked a judge to take back what he said in answer to what he said himself. After Luis Rubiales left his job as head of Spanish football, the judge is looking into what Pique did with him. Pique told the judge in that letter that his words had been taken out of context.

Pique and Kosmos did not sign a deal with RFEF. Instead, they only made a promise to Saudi Arabia.

The fact that Saudi Arabia paid Pique’s fee is used as an excuse by both Pique and RFEF. But El Confidencial says that any exchange of money is impossible without Rubiales. In other words, Pique was paid by RFEF to make this deal happen.

In the Supercopa deal, Pique gets $25 million from RFEF, not Saudi Arabia.

Pique is not in a very dangerous situation. Since well over a year ago, people have known that his company was paid so much money.

But it was thought that this fee was paid by Saudi Arabia. When the Supercopa de Espaa is in Saudi Arabia, Pique’s sports events company, Kosmos, helps the Spanish Federation earn about $45 million.

Reports from the past said that Rubiales gave Pique special attention. But now it looks like the money for treatment may have come from Spanish football and not Saudi Arabia. So, for the Federation to pay a current player to help make a deal is a waste of money.

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