Florentino Pérez, president of the Real Madrid, charged harshly in the interview in El Transistor against his counterpart in the UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, as a result of the pressure that the clubs promoting the Superliga have received, a competition that according to the president continues despite the coercion that the six English entities have received.
“More than taking away the double value of the goals in the opposite half, I would care more than the UEFA make more efforts for the fans, to make a more attractive and competitive competition. We are losing a lot of fans. I came to fight for football and I continue to fight for football. Football is having a bad time, it dies if we don't do something ”, he assured Florentino Pérez.
“It cannot be that all clubs lose money and
Ceferin and the presidents of the Leagues raise their salary. It is unusual. The only thing they want is to maintain their privileges while football dies ”, declared the president of the Real Madrid.
Perez assured that despite the commotion generated after the announcement of the creation of the Super league, none of the teams that explicitly renounced it has gotten off the boat. “There is a binding agreement and no one can go. The Super league go on. When we take it out, the UEFA He threatened us to maintain his dominant position and the English clubs fell. We go to the judge, who made his car. And said you couldn't touch the Super league. The UEFA you can't do anything about people or clubs. From there, it changes. It has already stopped. Now, the Luxembourg court will have to decide. We have asked that these coercions that have been made to the English be withdrawn ”.
“With the Super league nothing failed, we have worked on it with 12 clubs for two years in a format that makes football never die. Soccer is losing interest, young people are entertained with other platforms. Audiences are going down, and if they go down, so are audiovisual rights ”.
“We said that those with the most fans had to be there. Who buys the television rights? How many followers do Liverpool or Juventus have? We are not going to like everyone. You have to organize everything. The Super league It is not closed and that the leagues remain the same. It is a league that the only objective it has is that they buy it. The leagues will continue to exist ”, he commented.
“We do not exclude anyone but not everyone can be. A United-PSG generates more interest than a Rome-Sampdoria. We have taken all the audiences of all the matches of all the leagues and those who are in charge are the fans. We see that Manchester has more Roma fans. We take the ones with the most fans in the world because they are the ones that television will demand. “
“Now is the time to see reality, as happened when the European Cup was created and people said that football was going to die. It was not like that, the other way around. The same thing happened when we went from regional to national tournaments ”, he continued. Florentine.
“I came to change the world of football. I have always fought for the values of Madrid. I have contributed to the improvement of football and I continue to work for it. Football needs me, although it may sound presumptuous, I think it needs to be changed, “he said. Florentino Pérez.