“The Super League will save football”

“If they say: These are the rich – no. I am not the owner of Real Madrid, Real Madrid is a members club. Everything I do is for the good of football. Now we are doing this to save football, which is in a critical situation,” said the president of the Spanish record champions in an interview broadcast on Tuesday night by the channel El Chiringuito de Jugones, via which the Spanish Trademarks reported. Clubs all over the world are in financial difficulties because of the corona pandemic and it's about “saving football so that we can live in peace for at least the next 20 years. The situation is very dramatic,” said Perez. Real, like FC Barcelona and other clubs, has high mountains of debt; the corona pandemic has made the situation worse for many because of the collapse in sales. The Royals are one of three clubs from Spain, six from England and three from Italy that want to join forces to form a Super League and thus set out on a collision course with UEFA and its Champions League the day before. A total of 20 teams are expected to take part, and 3,5 billion euros are promised for the founding members. “We will try to start as soon as possible,” said Perez, who is tapped to serve as the company’s chairman. German clubs are not involved yet, and Paris St. Germain is not taking part either. “The Champions League is attractive from the quarter-finals onwards.” Florentino Perez According to Perez, the reform of the Champions League decided at the UEFA executive meeting on Monday, which will in future be played with 36 instead of 32 clubs and have 100 more games per season thanks to a new mode, comes too late: “They say the new format is coming 2024. We'll all be dead in 2024." He went on to say about the premier class, in which Real is in the semi-finals this season: "The Champions League is attractive from the quarter-finals onwards. We have to play against modest teams, which is not attractive.” Perez criticizes UEFA Perez cannot understand the harsh reaction from UEFA and the national leagues. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin is threatening that national players from breakaway clubs will not be allowed to play at the European Championships and World Cups. There is also talk of exclusion from the current Champions League season; the semi-finalists would include Real, Chelsea and Manchester City. “Whenever there is a change, there are always people who are against it,” he said. “What is attractive? The fact that we big guys play among each other, the competitiveness. This is attractive and is more valued on television, so it generates more resources.” Perez does not expect any consequences for the breakaway clubs. “You have to be transparent. UEFA has not been transparent and that is the end of it. The monopolies are over and we all say that football is on the verge of ruin. We will definitely not be thrown out of the Champions League. Not even from La Liga, nothing like that,” he said. “UEFA does not have a good image. I don’t want to mention things that happened at UEFA, but they need to have a dialogue and not threaten.”

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“The Super League will save football”

For its designated boss Florentino Perez, the planned Super League is not an attack on football, but rather its necessary rescue.

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