The news of a breakaway Super League shocked the European football world. And while the consequences of the important decision for weeks or months will not be complete, or not years, completely, at least one member of UEFA’s executive committee expects teams involved in trying to reap the consequences of their decision sooner rather than later. than to face later.
Jesper Møller, the Danish FA chairman, told the Danish outlet DR Sport that he expects the members of the breakaway group who remain in the season’s Champions League to be removed from the competition.
“[Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea] going out, and I expect that to happen on Friday, “Møller said. And then you have to see how to finish the Champions League. “
UEFA president Alexander Ceferin promised earlier in the day to use all the tools and sanctions at his disposal to fight back against the twelve teams that announced their plans to join the Super League.
“There should be one extraordinary meeting of the executive committee on Friday. I expect the twelve clubs to be thrown out,” Møller said.
The 2020-2021 version of the UEFA Champions League has reached the semi-finals with the first match scheduled for Tuesday 27 April, when Chelsea are currently set to play Real Madrid and PSG are set to take on Manchester City. . If the three breakaway points are removed, it remains to be seen how UEFA will handle the rest of this competition. Real Madrid’s quarterfinals were over another breakaway team, Liverpool, although both Manchester City and Chelsea defeated teams in Borussia Dortmund and Porto who rejected the idea of the Super League.
In the UEFA Women’s Champions League, two of the four semi-finals, Barcelona and Chelsea, are involved in the breakaway plans.