Some of Europe’s biggest clubs are in talks to launch a European Super League, planned to start in the 2023-24 season, with a 6 million million dollar fund that will pay for the project, will be donated to ESPN.
If the initiative is successful, it will organize the existence of the Champions League, the competition of the most important football clubs, and UEFA will announce the launch of a new format of 36 teams for the tournament designed to avoid the intentions of separating them best clubs apart.
Read more about ‘The Times’, the high-level English clubs Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham are among the 11 European teams that have signed up for the Superliga.
A person familiar with the plan says dijo a ESPN that the brand proposes to involve a total of 20 teams, with 15 permanent members who can not be relegated.
Other five teams rotate inside and out of the competition, following the return, for permanent members including six Premier League clubs, League Three, Italy Serie A, Bundesliga and one League. 1 of France. .
It is clear to ESPN that the New York City Investment Bank, JP Morgan, is financing the project, with $ 6 million distributed to the teams.
Despite the pressure from the Association of European Clubs, UEFA has elaborated plans to remodel the format of the Champions League, and the new competition will be announced on Monday, before the summit of the UEFA Executive Committee in Switzerland .
UEFA criticized the plans in a communiqué and said: “UEFA, the English Football Federation of the Premier League, the Real Football Federation of the Federation (RFEF) and LaLiga, and the Italian Federation of Football (FIGC) in the Lega Serie It has been reported that it is possible that the English, Spanish and Italian clubs are planning to announce the creation of a Superliga club.
“If this were to happen, we would like to mention that ours, UEFA, the English Football Association, RFEF, the FIGC, the Premier League, LaLiga, the Lega Serie A, but also FIFA and all our member federations, we will join in our efforts for Detengan is this cynical project, a project that is fundamentally in the interest of one of the few clubs at a time when society needs more than solidarity.
“Consider speech a nuestro alcance, a todos los niveles, tanto judiciales como deportivos par evitar que esto suceda. Football is based on the league competitions and the sporting merit, can not be otherwise.
“As FIFA and its six federations, the clubs in question may not play in any other competition at national, European or world level, and their players may privately represent the opportunity to represent their national selections.
“We would like to thank the clubs of other countries, especially the French and German clubs, who have refused to adhere to this. We have a lame to all football lovers, followers and politicians, for being one of us in the air against a project like this. be announced. This persistent interest in one person has been uncircumcised for a long time. Ya es sufficiente ”.
Planned to enter into force in 2024, the League of Champions remodels involving 36 teams playing 10 group games in six seasons. The biggest clubs also receive a mayor’s share of the prize money.
It is clear to ESPN that UEFA’s plan will follow suit with its announcement of the month, and that any separatist league will see it from a different perspective, and that UEFA’s and FIFA’s national federations will approve the proposal.
Mientras tanto, the Serie A convenes an emergency meeting of the junta the domingo to discuss a periodical that the broadcaster DAZN is involved in new plans for the separatist league, says a source to Reuters.
The meeting convened by the president of the league, Paolo Dal Pino, and the Italian periodical “Corriere dello Sport” informed that DAZN, owned by Access Industries of the multimillionaire Len Blavatnik, has been working on the formation of the league for some time.
The company announces that the reunion is in the form of a rematch, with the three clubs of the Serie A that will be part of the new project: Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan.
FIFA has previously stated that the players appearing in any European Super League are banned from playing in FIFA competitions, including the World Cup.
It culminates in a tumultuous week for Serie A despite the fact that its clubs will present an application in writing for Dal Pino to declare issues that include his plan management in order to participate in the league’s media negotiations.
It is also probable that the plans to expand the Champions League will meet the opposition of the aficionados; ESPN reported last week that groups of aficionados had registered their envoy of the UEFA exchange chambers.