The 12 rebel clubs planning to establish a European Super League (ESL) are “ready for dialogue” with the national leagues and UEFA, sources told ESPN.
With widespread hostility and opposition to the proposed ESL announced on Sunday from football and also from political leaders such as the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the French president Emmanuel Macron, leading figures within the separatist cabal accept the need for high-level talks to determine their plans.
The president of the UEFA Aleksander Ceferin, called the group a “dirty dozen” during an explosive press conference on Monday, in which he also said the proposals, in which Real Madrid, Liverpool, Manchester United and others participated, were “spat in the faces of football fans.”
The president of the Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, group chairman ESL, responded by saying that football must “change and adapt,” while Ceferin’s threat that rebel clubs be banned from the UEFA
On Tuesday there was a meeting of the 14 clubs of the Eredivisie who do not participate in the proposals – Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham are subscribed to the plan ESL – in an effort to agree on a strategy to combat the initiative.
But as anger over the separatist plan remains intense, as confirmed by fans burning a Liverpool jersey ahead of Monday’s game against Leeds United on Elland Road, key figures are in ESL They believe that talks can lower the temperature and lead to a better understanding of the proposals.
Under the plan ESL, there would be one Pay annual solidarity of 160 million euros to the clubs of the Eredivisie to ensure that the money generated by the new league is filtered into national football.
ESL leaders are determined to explain their vision of staying in the national leagues while only playing in a Super League midweek.
However, opposition to the proposals remains strong, with national leagues and associations united in their determination to block separatist competition anyway.