The Superliga project continues to generate debates, opinions for and against and intuition on whether and when it will succeed. That is why it was a topic to be discussed in the round table convened by Sports Law Institute for their anniversary with great sports lawyers in Spain: Toni Roca, Javier Ferrero, Reyes Bellver, Maite Nadal, Álvaro Gil … The latter, Atlético’s legal advisor, is one of those who the Super League plan is still very much alive.
“It is clear which is the clubs’ demand for UEFA, a better redistribution of money. If there comes a time when dialogue does not exist, if the demand of the clubs is not met … With an income of 3,500 million euros per season, the 32 teams that play the Champions League take 2,000, with their staff, your team, your stadiums and more. You have to listen to all parties but if there comes a time when there is no such dialogue, the only way is that of the Super League “, highlights Álvaro Gil, legal advisor of the rojiblanco club. “I find it difficult for them to agree. Knowing Florentino, the issue of the Super League should not be considered dead “, Ferrero, a former Real Madrid lawyer, warned. “It will be done with dialogue and with consensus. It seems to me that it is a project that will come out and more if it continues along these paths. Not to the ‘bravas’, but I do not rule it out at all,” Nadal added.
The last point of the Superliga case is the refusal of the European Union. But even so, few voices dare to venture that the initiative is dead. Atlético was one of the founders who fell out of the project claiming that there was no consensus among all the parties involved. “I perceived the rejection of our social mass and we left,” Gil Marín explained months later.
Atlético got on the boat of the most powerful clubs in Europe, but as soon as the project was launched and the numerous reactions against it were seen, the Board of Directors chose to back down. Also for the club, specifically for Gil Marín, it was a setback for LaLiga, as the club’s CEO is its vice-president.