Aleksander Ceferin has returned to charge against the three dissident clubs of the Superliga on The Daily Telegraph. Forceful and very hard at times, the highest representative of UEFA charges strongly against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus. “Whoever has a minimum of common sense will not try any more (Super League). I lived 48 stressful hours but it is good that it was like that. Most of the ignorant people in the world understand that the Super League is over And it was one of the strangest things I've ever seen. They came out with a press release to say that 'the Super League still exists' and then two days later they sent the request to play in the Champions League. So where do you want to be? “
Ceferin did not stop there and accused the survivors of the Superliga of threatening UEFA and the other nine clubs that have abandoned the project (Chelsea, United, City, Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool, Atlético, Inter and Milan): “Now they are threatening letters warning us that they will denounce us … They are really going to have too much money to do it … If that were the case, they should invest it in women's and youth football. I think they are also threatening the other nine clubs, after saying that football would die without the Super League. What madness. I receive threatening letters, I have not read them but the legal division tells me. I speak with the 244 ECA clubs, not just the most popular in the world. They persecute everyone, threatening, reiterating their point of view: 'Let's do charity to everyone'. But who wants charity? “
The case at the European Court of Justice
The Court of Justice of the European Union has admitted this Monday the matter raised by the Commercial Court number 17 of Madrid, which submitted a preliminary ruling requesting that it rule on whether UEFA has a dominant and abusive position and whether the punishments announced against the founding clubs of the Superliga threaten the free market in the territory of the EU.
The Curia Europa has assigned the number C-333/21 to the aforementioned matter, in which it will be aired neither more nor less if UEFA exercises a monopoly on European football. According to the order of magistrate Manuel Ruiz de Lara, head of Mercantil 17 of Madrid, the interpretation of articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) are those that maintain that UEFA abuses its position of authority.