"Without the Super League, we will all be dead in 2024" believes Florentino Pérez

President of the new Super League created by a dozen wealthy European clubs eager to secede from UEFA and the Champions League, Florentino Pérez spoke for the first time on this subject on the Spanish program

El Chiringuito on

Monday evening. The Real Madrid boss defended the project with force. “It's not a league for the rich, it's a league to save football. Tomorrow (Tuesday), we will present with Laporta (president of FC Barcelona) this League which wants to save football and save modest teams. Otherwise football will disappear, assures Pérez for whom the reform of the Champions League adopted by UEFA on Monday comes too late. They say the new format is coming in 2024. But by 2024 we will all be dead ”.

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"Young people are no longer interested in football"

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“The attractiveness of football is declining among young people and we want to offer them a competition so that they abandon their tablet. They are no longer interested in football. Digital has changed everything, they have other platforms to have fun. Football must evolve and adapt to the times in which we live, insists the building tycoon. With better posters, football will be valued. The Champions League is interesting from the quarter-finals. Before, we have to play against modest teams that are not attractive. There are poor quality matches. A Barça-Manchester is more attractive than a Manchester against a modest team. What are our fans all over the world asking for? This is what will bring in the money, not the other competitions. This money will be for everyone,it's a pyramid (…) We are doing this to save football ”, continues Pérez, stressing that Real Madrid lost“ 400 million euros ”with the health crisis and that the bill amounts to“ 5 billion ”for European clubs.

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"The new Champions League format will not bring enough returns"

Florentino Perez

“When you have no income other than television, you tell yourself that the solution is to make games more engaging that fans all over the world can see, with all the big clubs.

We are coming to the conclusion that with a Super League instead of the Champions League we will be able to compensate for our losses, ”summarizes the recently re-elected Real president who announces upcoming talks with UEFA and FIFA.

“We're going to talk to them.

I don't know why they get angry.

UEFA has worked on a new format that I did not understand at the start and which does not bring in enough money to save football as a whole.

It is an absurd format.

We want to save it for the next 20 years.

The situation is dramatic ”.

"For the moment, we have not invited PSG"

Florentino Perez

Regarding the identity of the clubs (3 permanent and 5 guests) who could join the 12 founding members of the Super League, Pérez remained unclear.

“For the moment, we are three countries (England, Spain, Italy).

We do not know which criteria we will favor.

We did not invite PSG or the two German clubs (Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund).

Bayern?

Someone said (in Germany) that we are going to end the championships.

Nobody wants that.

In England, are we going to do away with the Premier League?

It is not possible.

In Italy, Roma and Naples could join us because they deserve it.

But those who will bring in the money are the 15 founding clubs who will play with each other every week. "

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