Super League: Barça, Juve and Real continue to face UEFA

The slingers do not budge.

Despite the defection of nine of the twelve founding members of the defunct Super League, the bosses of FC Barcelona, ​​Juventus Turin and Real Madrid continue to oppose UEFA and to extol the merits of this project.

And this despite the penalties to which they are exposed ... We learned in fact Tuesday the opening of a disciplinary procedure, some sources suggesting that the European body plans to exclude them in C1!

Official press release.

#Real Madrid

- Real Madrid CF (@realmadridfra) May 26, 2021

Less than 24 hours later, the answer fell. These three clubs publish a joint press release. “FC Barcelona, ​​Juventus Turin and Real Madrid CF wish to express their absolute rejection of the insistent coercion that UEFA maintains against three of the greatest institutions in football history. Likewise, it is alarming to note that the said attitude is a flagrant violation of the decision of the courts of law, which have already spoken out by warning UEFA to refrain from any action against the founding clubs of the Super League for the duration of the legal proceedings. Therefore, the initiation of disciplinary proceedings by UEFA is completely incomprehensible and directly undermines the rule of law that citizens of theEuropean Union have democratically built. In addition, it constitutes a lack of respect for the courts themselves, ”one explains.

"Barcelona, ​​Juventus and Real Madrid will not accept any form of coercion or intolerable pressure"

Press release from FC Barcelona, ​​Juventus Turin and Real Madrid

The three clubs, which weigh 20 titles in C1, also continue to defend the Super League, "promoted with the aim of improving the situation of European football", and put a layer against the body led by Aleksander Ceferin.

“Instead of exploring ways to modernize football through open dialogue, UEFA expects us to withdraw ongoing legal proceedings that challenge their monopoly on European football,” it is said.

All before promising that the three clubs "will not accept any form of coercion or intolerable pressure, while remaining firmly prepared to discuss, respectfully and through dialogue, the urgent solutions that football currently needs."

And to conclude: "Either we reform football, or we will have to witness its inevitable downfall."

In the meantime, the hour of reconciliation does not seem very close, to put it mildly ...

Read also

• Super League: disciplinary procedure against Real, Juve and Barça, deprived of C1?