The promoters of the European Football Super League announced that they will “rethink the most appropriate stages to reform the project” of private competition that would compete with theto Champions League, after the six participating English clubs withdrew from the proposal.
Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham, Under pressure from fans and even the government itself, they announced their withdrawal on Tuesday, just two days after the announcement of the new tournament, which ran out of German or French teams.
This decision, which presupposes a suspension of the project, at least for the time being, although the initiators of the Superliga, based in Spain, were ‘convinced’ that their proposal was’ fully in line with European law ‘and reiterated that the’ status quo current ‘. quo of European football must change “.
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The dissident organization, chaired by the almighty president of the Real Madrid Florentino Pérez, It does not specify in its statement how it intends to “remodel” the project, nor does it indicate whether it will do so within agencies like UEFA or on the sidelines as they tried to do.
Only after the withdrawal of the English clubs Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Juventus, AC Milan e Inter they stay in the project, at least for now.
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