UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin redoubled his attacks on the three clubs that promoted the Superliga, saying he would not mind if Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus parted ways with UEFA and called their respective managers “incompetent ».
“I would not mind if they left, it is very funny that they want to create a new competition and at the same time want to play in the Champions League this season,” Ceferin said in an interview published this weekend by the magazine “Der Spiegel”.
All three clubs, according to Ceferin, “simply have incompetent managers.”
“Those guys have tried to kill football,” he stressed.
The clubs complain, according to Ceferin, that the salaries are too high despite the fact that they themselves have negotiated the contracts.
Ceferin, on the other hand, described as inconsequential that the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, “laments and says that the club can only survive with a Super League and then try to sign Kylian Mbappé for 180 million euros.”
On the other hand, Ceferin affirmed that he was threatened by telephone by a Superliga advisor who suggested that the competition be organized by UEFA; When the leader rejected the idea, he told him that the interested clubs had a lot of money and influence and that they were going to sue him if he did not give in.
Ceferin also proposed some financial Fair Play reforms in which a mandatory payment would be imposed on clubs that exceed a certain spending limit. The proceeds from these payments should be shared among the other clubs.
“In the future we want to talk about a competitive balance rather than fair play,” he said. EFE (HN)