UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin insists Super League clubs are ‘not speaking about football’ and says Andrea Agnelli was ‘praising the system’ before they launched the breakaway competition.
Ceferin and Tebas spoke at the Financial Times’ Business of Football Summit where Andrea Agnelli is expected to unveil the second plan for the Super League later today. Agnelli, who was the President of ECA when the Super League was announced one year ago, is in London and heard Ceferin’s speech.
“I have to say that those speaking about the Super League are not speaking about football. I am sick and tired of this non-football project,” the UEFA President said, as quoted by Mail Online.
“First, they launched their nonsense of the idea in the middle of a pandemic. Now, we read articles that they are planning to launch another idea now in the middle of a war.
“Do I have to speak more about these people? They obviously live in a parallel world.
“We are helping in a terrible situation, they are working on a project like that. They can pay whoever they want to write “this is a nice project, they are full of solidarity, there will be charity to small ones.”
European Super League: UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin slams clubs for trying to revive project
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“This is nonsense and everyone knows it. One of them, after it, called me and apologised – but then they go again. For them, the fans are customers. For us, the fans are fans.
“They can play their own competition, nobody forbids them. But if they play their own competition, they can’t play in our competition.”
The then aimed directly at Andrea Agnelli who is one of the architects of the competition along with Real Madrid President Florentino Perez and Barcelona’s Joan Laporta.
‘They criticised UEFA and the ECA, one of them was chairman of the ECA [Agnelli],” Ceferin said.
“I have quotes from where he was praising the system a week before they launched the Super League.”
La Liga President Javier Tebas also criticised the only three clubs still involved in the project, saying that they ‘lie more than Vladimir Putin.’
Tebas: ‘Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona lie more than Putin’
Love this part. Coming from the hypocrite of the century
“This is nonsense and everyone knows it. One of them, after it, called me and apologised – but then they go again. For them, the fans are customers. For us, the fans are fans.”
For us, the fans are the fans 😂😂😂