It is a message from Spartak Moscow posted this Tuesday evening on Twitter which perhaps best sums up a sentiment widely shared by a very large part of footballing Europe: “European Super League 04/19/21 - 04/20 / 2021.
We won't regret you.
“The Super League, which seemed in recent hours promised a certain disappearance after the announced flight of its members in the wake of the English clubs Manchester City and Chelsea, will not see the light of day.
European Super League 🥀
04/19/21 - 04/20/21
You will not be missed.
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- FC Spartak Moscow (@fcsm_eng) April 20, 2021
And here is the Champions League once again the sole queen of European club competitions.
At what price, would we dare to ask in the face of the turmoil caused by the attempt to create the Super League?
"That the new format of the Champions League does not begin until 2024, it is absurd, said Florentino Pérez, the president of Real Madrid at the head of the new event.
In 2024, we will be dead.
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Financial benefits?
However, it is towards this new formula with 36 teams, voted this Monday morning by UEFA and which is not unanimous either, that fans of European matches will be able to turn in three years.
The slingers and their players, severely threatened at first by the president of the European body, Aleksander Ceferin, - "Those who play in the Super League will be banned from the World Cup and Euro" - should be welcomed without hard feelings .
This Tuesday, he had indeed extended his hand to them, assuring the owners of the clubs concerned that it was “still time to change their mind.
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Back inside the system where PSG and Bayern have wisely awaited them, the greats of Europe certainly expect their pressure to lead to significant financial repercussions. As such, they can hope that the negotiations, started according to Bloomberg several weeks ago by UEFA with a British investment fund (Centrius Asset Management), will be successful. Hundreds of thousands of additional euros could result.
Fifa could take the opportunity to relaunch its ambitious Club World Cup project. In the meantime, the Paris-City and Chelsea-Real Madrid semi-finals will have an even more special flavor next week. Especially when we think back to the words of the Danish Jesper Moller, member of the UEFA Executive Committee, who intended to exclude the last three cities and thus leave PSG alone on the track! "I hope it will be a Super fiasco", said Fred, historical supporter of PSG, about the Super League. He didn't think he was right so quickly.