La Liga insist Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao prevent growth of other clubs

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao have released official statements regarding La Liga's €2.7bn deal with the CVC Capital Partners, confirming their intentions to dispute it.

Of the 42 clubs in Spain's top two leagues, 39 now support it while the only ones against are Barca, Real Madrid and Bilbao.

La Liga, in turn, insist that 'it demonstrates that these three clubs are attempting to prevent growth for the other clubs in the league'.

As a reminder, the basis of the agreement is that all the Primera and Segunda clubs receive hundreds of millions of euros to recover their financial state amid the coronavirus pandemic; part of the TV rights for the upcoming 50 years would be lost, however.

Real Madrid and Barca considered the deal financially unfavourable in the long term.