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Bartomeu provided a glimpse into the super-program of the luxury clubs
The bombshell dropped by the outgoing Barcelona president over the club's joining a new Europa League should come as no surprise: from the Florentino Perez initiative to PSG's and City's defection attempts, the football giants have been building the UEFA disengagement plan for years. dear?
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 11:30 p.m.
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Josep Maria Bartomeu leaves Barcelona after resigning (from Twitter)
Just before he finally left Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu dropped a bombshell: he says starting next season the team intends to participate in a new Europa League, the "European Super League", which will help the club supposedly maintain financial stability, and guarantee him much fat bonuses From those offered to him in the Champions League.
For several years now, Barcelona have been struggling to achieve real results in the Champions League, but few believed that they would be the first to abandon it in favor of the new league, which has been hovering in the air in one way or another since the 1990s.
It is still unclear whether Barcelona really intend to implement the decision that Bartomeu was talking about - certainly not when the league he was talking about has not been established at all - but if so, it is a rather subversive move.
As mentioned, the establishment of the European Super League has been doomed for many years.
In 1998, a group of investors from Italy tried to set up an alternative plant to the Champions League, but the idea fell through after the UEFA adapted, made changes to the format of the Champions League and persuaded many teams to "defect" to the Alternative League to stay. Real Madrid Florentino Perez and other footballers, such as Arsene Wenger, have expressed support for the new plant.
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Re-ignited a debate that lasted for many years.
Bartomeu (Photo: From the official website of Barcelona)
Peres criticized UEFA at the time, claiming that the format in which the Champions League is played does not reach its economic and professional potential. "In the new Super League, we will ensure that the best teams play against the best teams - which is not the case in the Champions League," he said. Participants in the new league will remain part of the local leagues, but under very certain conditions that will not prevent multiple international meetings between senior teams in European football. The
initiative continued to rise and fall from the table once every few years. In 2016 UEFA tried to respond once again to Champions League, and reduce it to 16 permanent teams that will be divided into two houses of 8 teams.
This proposal, too, was eventually dropped, after great pressure.
In 2018, Football Leaks documents revealed that several senior teams on the continent, including Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain who did not comply with UEFA's fair play regulations, had been in talks to create the new league since 2021, and tried to persuade big clubs Others join them.
The new Premier League of football is gaining more traction?
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Last week it became clear that unlike UEFA, FIFA is suing for the establishment of the new league as a replacement for the Champions League.
According to the Sky network, FIFA is discussing the possibility of changing the name of the league from the "Champions League" to the "European Premier League", and establishing a league of 18 teams that will compete against each other, and decide the season through a final tournament, similar to the format of the playoffs. NBA.
Even if Bartomeu's statements are inaccurate, they certainly suggest that something's going on behind the scenes.
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