Juventus President Andrea Agnelli has distanced his club from a so-called European Super League.
Football Leaks namedropped Juve as one of the clubs who were secretly negotiating a breakaway Super League with the likes of Roma, Milan and Inter, but Agnelli made it clear he was ‘fully engaged’ with UEFA counterpart Aleksander Ceferin.
“I can confirm we have never seen, never discussed, never been involved in the creation of this document,” the European Club Association chief told BBC Sport.
Juventus President Andrea Agnelli has distanced his club from a so-called European Super League.
Football Leaks namedropped Juve as one of the clubs who were secretly negotiating a breakaway Super League with the likes of Roma, Milan and Inter, but Agnelli made it clear he was ‘fully engaged’ with UEFA counterpart Aleksander Ceferin.
“I can confirm we have never seen, never discussed, never been involved in the creation of this document,” the European Club Association chief told BBC Sport.
“We are fully engaged with UEFA in shaping the game going forward. It will be our duty to safeguard the great heritages of European football but on the other side I think we are very well aware that we have to safeguard markets, we have to think about upcoming markets.
“We have to think about Poland. We have to think about [countries like] Turkey, we have to think about Russia.
“Fans can rest assured that if we put our hands to making a new product it’s because we want to make sure that fans across Europe engage.
“The dogma of the dream has to stay alive, because it is the foundation of European sports
“Evidently if you want to have an overall rebalancing of European football and more international [European] football, all that would have to go hand in hand with a reduction of domestic games.
“But most importantly it is harmonising. Today you take England, for example, that has two national cups. A team potentially plays 53 domestic games.
“Then you take Germany where the maximum number of games is 43 because there are two fewer teams in the league and there is only one cup. So that is 10 games difference. Is it logical?
“There’s a whole system of anomalies that have to be addressed. It might mean in certain leagues increasing the amount of games. It’s not just about reducing, it’s about making it a level playing field, which is very important.”