New excitement about the Super League: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Juventus Turin apparently want to present revised plans for the project that failed last year. But UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin is already threatening with clear words.
“Clubs are free to organize their own tournaments but they should not expect to play in the tournaments organized by UEFA. They used a pandemic, now they are using a war,” Ceferin said at the Financial Times’ “Business of Football Summit”. He dismissed the plans as “nonsense”.
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Loud Gazzetta dello Sport the three remaining Super League initiators want to present their new ideas on Thursday.
Javier Tebas, the president of the Spanish league, also reported that the presidents of Real Barca and Juve met at Juve boss Andrea Agnelli’s house last week. “If Andrea doesn’t clarify that, he’s a liar,” Tebas said directly to Agnelli, who was present on Thursday: “You think the clubs in the national leagues are stupid, all of which is an insult.” And Tebas added: “Super League clubs lie more than Putin.”
Juventus, Real and Barca want to sue UEFA
In the spring of 2021, twelve top European clubs initially presented plans for a Super League outside of UEFA competitions and received massive criticism for this. While the English teams distanced themselves from the controversial ideas a little later, the initiators Juventus, Real and Barca did not completely shelve the project.
In addition, the trio is preparing a lawsuit before the European Court of Justice. He reports that Telegraph. Accordingly, the clubs want to sue against the monopoly of UEFA in Europe. This is intended to drive a revival of the Super League.
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