Sogecable successfully exercised a one-year renewal option in a previous contract to extend its deal with the club for the 2008-09 season after Real Madrid had signed in 2007 a five-year deal, running from 2008-09 to 2012-13, with sports rights agency Mediapro.
Mediapro accepted the option, and moved its deal with Real Madrid back by one year, so that it runs from 2009-10 to 2013-14.
Mediapro said this week that Sogecable’s claim to matching-rights has “no legal basis. They gave up this clause in writing, and in any case, it expired two years ago. They had to renew it before November 2007, and they failed to do so.”