"Football is at a crossroads, we need to change".
Thus the president of Juventus Andrea Agnelli, opening the 25th General Assembly of the ECA, the Association of European clubs that he chairs.
"Covid has asked a series of questions on the sustainability of the current football model", says Agnelli, according to whom the "loss of revenues is around 6.5 / 8.5 billion in two seasons".
"They are blows on the shoulders of the clubs", he says, quoting Draghi: "If we don't move, we will be left alone in the illusion of what we are, in the oblivion of what we have been and in the denial of what we could be".
"In recent months, some major financial players have shown interest in football, just think about what is still happening in Italy, with the negotiations with the funds. But I also think of many other situations, starting with leaks. on Jp Morgan's interest in the Super League. These subjects are not interested in solidarity, but in returns from investments ". "If we change we can look at these investments. Football, economics and politics are at the crossroads. We must intercept these possibilities, otherwise we risk imploding", underlines Angelli, who invites "first of all to put the fans at the center". "We cannot take the fans for granted, or we risk losing them."
