The lying poker game involving European football leaders around the controversial Super League project is in full swing.
This Friday, it once again involved the presidents of two historic clubs from the Old Continent: FC Barcelona and Olympique de Marseille.
On Catalan radio RAC1, the Blaugrana president
Joan Laporta mentioned OM by listing support for the project of a new European competition dissident from UEFA and its Champions League.
“The Super League could exist from the coming season, or in 2025-2026,” he says.
Besides Barça and Madrid, there are the Italians: Inter, Milan, Naples and Roma.
There are also French teams like Olympique de Marseille, and the three Portuguese teams, Sporting, Benfica and Porto, who would like to come.
There are also the Dutch teams: Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV, and the Belgian teams Bruges and Anderlecht.
It would be better to have a 16-team competition.
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“I want to deny it completely,” said Longoria in… December
Asked by RMC Sport, OM reacted briefly but firmly to the comments of the Barcelona leader.
“Pablo Longoria already spoke publicly on December 21, and the club's position has not changed.”
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There is not a single serious conservation on this theme.
This is why we presented our application to the ECA, to try to propose changes.
On the question of the Super League and OM, I want to completely deny ,
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he declared that day, like his PSG counterpart Nasser Al-Khelaïfi.
“I consider that having three or four competitions organized by so many different organizers is a football disaster.
If this is the case, I see a difficult future for the world of football.
This is not the time for division,” he further explained.
The Super League made a thunderous return to the forefront, two years after the fiasco of the first announcement, following a decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union which could be interpreted as being in its favor , end December.
The same day, the company A22, promoter of the competition, presented a new formula.