Faced with the increasingly concrete threat of a competing superleague project, the most beautiful of the European Cups is (again) making its revolution.
For more matches and more money in order to calm the inclinations of sedition within it.
Regularly agitated by the richest clubs as a means of pressure to push UEFA to reform the prestigious Champions League to their advantage, the scarecrow of a parallel competition had passed from the wings to the stage at the end of October, when Josep Maria Bartomeu, future ex-president of FC Barcelona, had dropped this bombshell in public:
“The club's management committee has approved the acceptance of the prerequisites to participate in a future European superleague
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In early January, Bloomberg confirmed that the American giant JPMorgan was working on the financing of a new continental championship, composed of a dozen permanent members (including Juventus Turin, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and PSG), for a presentation
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