Football: Aleksander Ceferin and Javier Tebas again pay the Super League and its supporters

Cefern targets Juve boss Andrea Agnelli

“While we are rescuing players, together with other actors, and helping out in a terrible situation, they are working on a project like this. (…) It’s total nonsense and everything everyone knows it, except them”, he pressed. Of the twelve clubs which announced in April their desire to create the Super League, a private dissident league bringing together the biggest European club teams, nine had quickly dissociated themselves in the face of pressure from their own players and supporters, as well as from governments and football governing bodies.

At the head of one of the three clubs that have not given up, the boss of Juventus Andrea Agnelli, one of the architects of the project alongside the president of Real Florentino Perez, must speak at this same forum later. during the day and he was targeted by Aleksander Ceferin.

“It’s interesting to see that they criticize UEFA and ECA (the European club association, defending their interests, editor’s note). One of them was the president of ECA (Andrea Agnelli) and I have a quote in which he was praising the system a week before they launched the first Super League”did he declare.

Aleksander Ceferin said clubs were free to organize their own competitions, but he warned they could no longer hope to participate in UEFA competitions such as the lucrative Champions League if they challenged the current structure soccer.

As for the president of the Spanish Football League, Javier Tebas, he was even more vehement against the three supporters of the Super League, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus: “Every time I hear a communication from these clubs, it annoys me, they lie more than Putin to be honest”judged Javier Tebas, translated by an interpreter.

“Among all the domestic leagues, we must be stupidhe asserted. We are all unanimous in saying that the Super League harms the national leagues. But these three say ‘no, no, no, don’t worry’. To me, that’s an insult. They do a lot of harm”.