Everton coach Carlo Ancelotti was surprised by the Super League and stressed ‘they were wrong’ to break away. ‘The most important part is sport merit’.
The Toffees tactician, who moved back to the Premier League after a stint at Napoli in Serie A, has won the Champions League three times as a coach.
But the former Milan player claimed the Super League ‘didn’t take into consideration the opinion of two really important parts; the fans and the players’.
Everton coach Carlo Ancelotti was surprised by the Super League and stressed ‘they were wrong’ to break away. ‘The most important part is sport merit’.
The Toffees tactician, who moved back to the Premier League after a stint at Napoli in Serie A, has won the Champions League three times as a coach.
But the former Milan player claimed the Super League ‘didn’t take into consideration the opinion of two really important parts; the fans and the players’.
Ancelotti believes the Champions League, and all the other competitions, must work hard to make their championships ‘more and more competitive’, but always underlined the importance of merit.
“It was a strange day for every supporter of football,” Ancelotti said at a press conference. “It was a surprise.
“We heard about the Super League in the past few months but I was sure it was not going to happen.
“What can I say, they were wrong. These 12 clubs were wrong. I think they didn’t take into consideration the opinion of two really important parts.
“One part are the players and the managers too, and the other part are the supporters. They didn’t take this opinion into consideration.”
“These two parts are never involved in the schedule of the Premier League, of the Champions League and it’s really important. The schedule now is too busy.
“Take into consideration all these kinds of things, and the most important part is that they wanted to build up a competition without sport merit. This is not acceptable.
“In our culture we were born to have a merit, a sporting merit. If you are good, you play football and you become a professional. If you are not good, you are not professional.
“If you are better than the other team, you have to win and play the best competition. I think they didn’t take it into consideration, and they were wrong. Full stop.
“Fortunately, I think, they are back now, and they are going to have a discussion. Everyone of us wanted to make the Champions League more competitive. This is for sure.
“The Champions League, that is the best competition in the world, starts to be really exciting from March. But it can be exciting also from September or October, when the Champions League starts.
“They have to open a discussion to make, not just the Champions League, but also the Premier League and the other competitions like Serie A, more and more competitive.
“But the first and most important part is the sport merit.”
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