Petr Cech two meters high, was the goalkeeper of the Chelsea, the one with the helmet. Now he is the technical director of the London club and when he comes engulfed by the crowd of fans who block the Blues bus at the entrance to Stamford Bridge, he looks distraught. Someone yells at him traitor!, others wave improvised billboards, where the anger towards the Super League put black on white: Erase it !, Pride of London, Super-greed.
The average age of the participants seems low, the anger concrete. Cech yells for the bus to come in for the match against Brighton, which is played regularly. The Guardian speaks of shock and bewilderment among the players: for the Superlega, even before the reaction of the fans of the team of the Russian billionaire Abramovich. A mobilization, which had already spread further north, among the keepers of Liverpool’s orthodoxy (who has also seen some sponsor take your distance) and del Manchester United.
The words, very heavy, of protagonists like Klopp and Guardiola, the malaise of the players and the political stances have been fuel for the protest: the splinters have underestimated this double pressure, from below and from above, perhaps due to the distance of certain properties, especially American ones, from the soul of their fans. Thus, the fear of the unknown has its weight in the unraveling of the agreement between the clubs that wanted to save football in the words of Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid. The first to greet the company Ed Woodward, executive vice president of Manchester United on behalf of the property of the Glazers.
The rumors of the resignation of Andrea Agnelli, president of Juventus, are immediately denied: but the storm that has engulfed one of the main promoters of the Super League seems to be at the beginning, rather than at the end. Why the calculations were all wrong. And the chasms in the balance sheets remain. Between us there is a pact of blood, we will win, said Agnelli a Republic, trusting in the 100 percent chance of success, let’s move on.
This is why it is difficult to think that everything runs out like this, quickly and badly. The debt situation of the big names in some cases desperate, political interventions can be considered as interference, law firms promise battle: however it turns out, football will no longer be the same. Maybe not even Juve: Alessandro Nasi the first name for the eventual succession of Agnelli.
Fans and politics, heart and reason, romance and global vision: all this has a weight in the tripping of the giant with feet of clay, like a sudden, violent wind. But it can’t be all there, not the case of having too many illusions about the driving force of the ball as a feeling. The ground that quickly disappears under the feet of the splinters made of money, politics, interests perhaps even higher than those of the Super League itself. In a sense it can be said that the creature of Perez and Agnelli, a prisoner of disastrous communication, which was crushed from below. But above all from above, with geopolitics and economics closely intertwined.
The latest on the Superlega
The PSG of the Qataris cannot, even if they want to, go against Uefa and Fifa, given that Doha will host the (discussed) World Cup 2022. Added to this is the composition of the funds that would have financed the Superlega: Saudi Arabia would be involved, with which Qatar itself is in bad relations. THEIn short, romance can wait. Or at most act as a background. If the Superalloy does not succeed, due to the numerous wrong calculations by its creators. Too many not to assume a desperate flick of the tail. At least of Perez and Agnelli.
April 21, 2021 (change April 21, 2021 | 09:00)
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