Super League: the slingers protected by Swiss justice?

A victory for the slingers clan?

According to

Cadena SER

, the Swiss justice ministry informed UEFA and Fifa that Real Madrid, Juventus Turin and FC Barcelona, ​​the last clubs to cling to the stillborn Super League project, cannot be sanctioned. At the end of April, the Madrid Commercial Court had already ruled in this direction, prohibiting the two authorities, based in Switzerland, from taking "disciplinary measures or sanctions" against the clubs, managers and players involved in this process. creation of a dissident league and in particular, "to exclude clubs and / or players (...) from any international or national club competition." Madrid judge Manuel Ruiz de Lara has, in addition to his previously mentioned decision of April 20, seized the European Court of Justice (CJEU) to determine whether UEFA is abusing its dominant position inopposition to the Super League and whether the threats of sanctions raised by FIFA and UEFA are legal.

⚽ La noticia que contamos anoche en @carrusel

UEFA y FIFA han sido notificadas por el Ministerio de Justicia de Suiza de que no pueden tomar represalias contra los clubes de la Superligahttps: //t.co/rIdwEsN0O1

- Carrusel Deportivo (@carrusel) June 7, 2021

Recall that a dozen European clubs launched, on the night of April 18 to 19, the famous Super League.

48 hours later, nine of the slingers had given up on the project.

UEFA sanctioned them at the beginning of May with an overall fine of € 15 million and withholdings from their European income up to 5%, while opening disciplinary proceedings against the three recalcitrant clubs, Real, Juve and Barça at the end of may.

Real, Juve and Barça sure of their facts

"Barcelona, ​​Juventus and Real Madrid will not accept any form of coercion or intolerable pressure", reacted the three mutineers in a joint statement, denouncing "a flagrant violation of the decision of the courts of law, which ores and already expressed in warning UEFA to refrain from any action against the founding clubs of the Super League for the duration of the legal proceedings. Consequently, the opening of disciplinary proceedings by UEFA is completely incomprehensible and directly undermines the rule of law that the citizens of the European Union have democratically built. ” Opposed to the Super League from the start, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi "took advantage" of this crisis to extend his influence and take the head of the ECA.“We cannot create a closed Championship and reserve it only for the big clubs. It is not fair. We are killing the tradition of football, we are killing the hope of supporters, the hope of clubs, players, young people. Imagine that happening, where would we be in two years? ”, Indignant the president of Paris Saint-Germain in the columns of

The Team

.

BREAKING NEWS:

Unofficial:

Uefa Disciplinary should postpone their verdict on SuperLeague clubs till AFTER the Euro in order to deal meanwhile with the injunction from Swiss Justice Ministry of not sanctioning the 3 clubs still involved

- Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) June 7, 2021

And to add, about "these same big clubs (which) had already tried to put pressure on financial fair play": "they want to block all competition and remain between them in a closed league".

Reconciliation is not for tomorrow ... Some sources indicate in any case that international bodies plan to wait until the end of the Euro (June 11-July 11) to turn around and punish the clubs concerned. 

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