LaLiga president Javier Tebas has praise Real Madrid for the club's financial management in recent seasons.
Los Blancos have been assigned the highest salary limit in LaLiga Santander by LaLiga, which is in no small part down to how they have tightened their pursestrings when needed.
"Real Madrid are top due to their excellent management of the pandemic," Tebas told Radio MARCA. "They have been excellent at financial managing for the last 10 years."
Tebas continued to play down talks of crisis after Real Madrid's loss to Sheriff in the Champions League, and believes that Los Blancos and Barcelona will both still compete with Atletico Madrid for the domestic title this term.
"Yes," Tebas responded, asked if Atleti were to be considered favourites. "Real Madrid and Barcelona are still there.
"I think other teams like Real Sociedad, Villarreal and Sevilla too. It's all more evenly matched. Whenever the big teams struggle to win it's said that there's a crisis. But they wanted more equality, and there's definitely that now."
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