“If six teams would have broken away and would have threatened the Premier League, politics would have seen that as an attack to Brexit and their political scheme,” Andrea Agnelli says.
The Juventus President is under pressure after the Super League project collapsed.
“If six teams would have broken away and would have threatened the Premier League, politics would have seen that as an attack to Brexit and their political scheme,” Andrea Agnelli says.
The Juventus President is under pressure after the Super League project collapsed.
“I remain convinced of the beauty of that project,” Agnelli told Reuters, confirming the competition can’t go ahead.
“Admittedly… I mean, I don’t think that that project is now still up and running,” he added.
“I’m not going to say how many clubs contacted me in just 24 hours asking if they could join,” Agnelli continued.
“Maybe they lied, but I was contacted by a number of teams asking what they could do to join."
The project collapsed after the six Premier League clubs decided to withdraw from the competition.
“I have had speculation to that extent that if six teams would have broken away and would have threatened the Premier League politics would have seen that as an attack to Brexit and their political scheme,” Agnelli explained.
The Juventus Chairman was harshly criticised by UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin who said on Monday he’s never seen a person lie as much as Agnelli.
“If you tell me other methods for putting together such projects … if you were to ask the authorisation of others, I don’t think you would have carried out a project like this,” Agnelli said.
“The relations are there, I have seen relations changing in time, some people I am quite sure that people will be open and talk to each other,” he said.
“I don’t think our industry is a particularly sincere, trustworthy or reliable one in general.”