2024-02-02 15:45:55
“The Superleague might start next season, or in 2025-2026. If this is not the case, I will reconsider the question, explained this Friday the president of FC Barcelona Joan Laporta, in an interview with RAC1 radio.
In 2021, 12 clubs, led by FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, announced the creation of their own private competition, with enormous commercial potential, aiming to compete with the Champions League organized by UEFA. The latter, supported by FIFA, responded by threatening rebellious clubs with sanctions and issued rules aimed at preventing the creation of this dissident competition.
But, at the end of December 2023, European justice disavowed UEFA, ruling that its rules were contrary to competition law. Despite this decision, the emergence of a Superleague still seems very hypothetical, the Court of Justice having clarified that this did not mean that its creation “had to be authorized”, since it ruled in general on the rules of the FIFA and UEFA, and not on this specific project.
For Laporta, however, this development is likely to relaunch the Superleague, even though the vast majority of clubs initially in favor of its creation now seem to have to give it up by supporting UEFA, like the English teams. “For me, the fact that the English are not satisfied,” he assured.
“I don’t care, the English already have their Superleague, namely the Premier League”
Joan Laporta, president of FC Barcelona.
“The Superleague means that you are putting on the table a club which, by participating in this competition, will earn at least 100 million euros, without even having to win the Champions League,” he further argued. striving to describe the competition as “a continental Super League” in which “Inter, Milan, Naples, Roma, Barça, Real Madrid, Marseille, the three Portuguese teams of Sporting, Benfica and Porto, Ajax” might participate. Amsterdam, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven, Anderlecht and Bruges.” For its part, OM would have very quickly denied its participation in any Superleague project.
“That’s 16 or 18 teams. I think it would be better to have 16,” he concluded, recalling that, “when the European Champion Clubs’ Cup was created in 1955, very few teams had participated in it. and that it then became the queen competition in Europe.
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