Real Madrid president Florentino Perez ruled on Sunday that "football reform could not wait" as negotiations for a European Superleague began behind the scenes.
“Football needs new formulas, which make it more competitive, more moving, stronger.
The impact of Covid-19 requires new changes, ”said the leader during the general meeting of“ socios ”(supporters-shareholders) of the club.
“Everyone pleads for a reform of the current panorama of competitions.
Players get injured due to the large number of matches.
Football reform cannot wait, ”argued the 73-year-old president of Real Madrid, at the head of the“ White House ”since 2009 after a first freelance between 2000 and 2006.
This plea comes as, behind the scenes, negotiations are underway for the creation of a European Superleague, a sea serpent in European football favorable to big clubs.
Great rival of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona became at the end of October the first club to officially validate the idea of a Superleague, through the voice of its resigned president Josep Maria Bartomeu.
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"I believe that the president of Real Madrid is completely lost with this subject of Superleague, we must better inform him", tackled Sunday on Twitter Javier Tebas, the president of LaLiga, organ of professional football in Spain, in response to Comment from the president of Madrid.
Creo que el presidente del @realmadrid anda muy despistado con el tema de la SUPERLIGA, deben informarle mejor.
Y sobre las retransmisiones ... si cree que no son objetivas, en el mando a distancia hay una opción para escuchar el partido con RMTV, seguro que son más "objetivas".
- Javier Tebas Medrano (@Tebasjavier) December 20, 2020
This old project, which is not unanimous among the leaders of European football, would allow the most powerful clubs on the continent to limit the sporting hazard and share the cake of TV rights.
It would compete head-on with the Champions League and the Europa League, organized under the aegis of UEFA with a principle of meritocracy and European qualification through national championships.
At the beginning of December, the British daily
The Times
affirmed that UEFA was planking on a project of reform of the Champions League, which would replace the traditional pools with a general classification of 32 or 36 teams, each playing 10 matches against 10 different opponents.
Called the "Swiss System", this option would be favored by the European body in its desire to counter Superleague projects.
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