After the meeting called this Thursday by The league, in which the 39 uninvited clubs – all except for Athletic
from
Madrid, FC
Barcelona Y Real
Madrid– to be part of the Super league European Union showed their unanimous rejection of this format, its president Javier
Thebes He appeared before the media to speak about the frustrated attempt by the 12 most powerful teams in Europe to create such a competition, branded as “closed and elitist” in a statement.
“They cannot tell us that they are coming to save us from ruin.”
The maximum representative of The league, which was accompanied by Joseph
Castro (Seville), Indigo
Murthy (Valencia), Ferdinand
Roig (Villarreal), Angel
Haro (Betis) and Quico
Catalan (Lift) began by ensuring that the Super league “It is dissolving like a sugar” and that “the negative is the message that has been given. They cannot tell us that they are coming to save us from ruin. It is not true. Nor that they do not harm national competitions. They do it, economically and sportingly. If it was so good they would not have done it secretly, “he said at a telematic press conference.
“They have gone to blow up the system,” he added. Thebes, who explained that “there was dialogue until Friday. They had voted to reform the Champions League and, suddenly, they came out with Sunday's note. Some did not like the new Champions League ”.
He clarified the threat of Ceferin, president of UEFA
On the words of the president of the UEFA, Aleksander
Ceferin, who threatened on Slovenian television to take action against the promoters of the Super league in European competitions, the president of The league he wanted to clarify them, clarifying that “he was referring to the fact that there was a minimal possibility of expelling them. But he was referring to another detail: to sign they have to sign a voluntary adhesion. We will see if they want to do it with the conditions of UEFA. That will be done in May. That's what Ceferin was referring to ”, he pointed out.
After the step back from Manchester
City, Chelsea, Manchester
United, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool, Inter, AC
Milan Y Athletic
from
Madrid, Thebes He was ironic and said that he does not know “if it is the‘ bi Superliga ’or the‘ tri Superliga ’because there are two or three left. You cannot create what you want to create. The Germans will never be. Neither do the French. The Super League, as it is conceived, is dead. It would be the end of the Spanish LaLiga. About 1,000 million euros less per season ”, he declared.
I don't know if it's the ‘bi Superliga’ or the ‘tri Superliga’ because there are two or three left
“As for the format … why do we have to change it if we have grown a lot? To satisfy the greed of a few or to buy more Lamborghinis for a few, are we going to change everything? ”Asked the president of the Spanish football association.
Asked by football audiences, one of the arguments of Florentine
Perez to defend the creation of the Super league European, Thebes He assured that “each market is different. In Spain, an Eibar-Osasuna is much more palatable than a United-Everton. A Villarreal-Sevilla interests five times more than a United-City. Two weeks ago, there was a Barça-Valladolid on Monday. Real Madrid-Liverpool only made 100,000 more spectators than Barça-Valladolid. They are data ”, he defended.
The UEFA president apologizes to Laporta for the Super League.