The idea of a closed Superalloy is a complete break. Twelve European clubs have announced an agreement to form a new midweek football competition, the Super League, governed by the Founding Clubs. Thus begins the press release of the new Super league that splits football and gives life to a new continental championship, in NBA style, which could start as early as August 2021 (as soon as possible, it says in the press release) and which sees Juve as one of the founding clubs. Inter and Milan, as well as Barcelona, Atletico and Real Madrid, Manchester United and City, Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool (here the teams: who said yes, and who said no).
The format of the new championship would be quite particular. Let’s see it.
The mechanism of the Superalloy
They would be 20 participating clubs including 15 founding clubs (but for now only 12 are known) and a qualification mechanism for 5 other teams, which would be selected each year based on the results achieved in the previous season. The matches would be midweek and it is the intention of the participants that the clubs would continue to play on Saturdays and Sundays in their respective leagues. THE participants would be split into two groups of ten teams, who would play both at home and away and with the top three in each group automatically qualifying for the quarter-finals. The fourth and fifth classifieds would face each other in a round-trip match for the two remaining places available for the quarter-finals. The subsequent single-elimination format, with both home and away matches, would be used to reach the final in a single match on neutral ground.
The hypothesis had been circulating for some time, like a time bomb and exploded on the eve of UEFA Executive Committee which today must ratify the new format of the 36-team Champions League starting in 2024, agreed with the ECA (here all the details)., but rejected by some of the major members, first of all by the now former president of the European club association, Andrea Agnelli who resigned. The same Eca, of which Juve and the other clubs of the Superlega are no longer part of yesterday, condemned the idea of the Superlega, disavowed the work of the Juventus number one and explained to be against the project.
The new European championship will consist of 20 teams, with 15 fixed seats reserved for the founding members and the remaining 5 assigned each year based on the results achieved in the previous season, writes the Superlega..Two groups of 10 teams with round-trip midweek matches, then quarterfinals, semifinal and final. A fatal blow to the Champions League and national competitions. To announce the new project was just the newborn Superlega, of which Real Madrid number one, Florentino Perez, the new president and Agnelli the deputy, a position shared with Joel Glazer of Manchester United. In recent months, an extensive dialogue has taken place regarding the future format of European competitions. The founding clubs believe that the proposed measures are not a solution, there is a need to offer better quality matches and additional financial resources. The founding clubs wish to start consultations with Uefa and Fifa in order to work together.
UEFA and FIFA, I am of a completely different opinion, on a war footing, e they responded harshly. Uefa in a joint statement with the Leagues and Federations of Italy, Spain and England (Germany and France do not appear because they did not join the Super League) thundered: We will stop this cynical project. We will consider all measures, at all levels, both judicial and sporting. Those who join Superlega will be excluded from everything. The threat of expelling those who join the Super League from national tournaments and cups, to ban the players involved from playing for the national teams and to sue rebel clubs for 50-60 billion euros. Fifa has also clearly expressed its disapproval of a closed European separatist league: Any football competition, national, regional or global, should always reflect the fundamental principles of solidarity, inclusiveness, integrity and fair financial redistribution, Fifa writes in a note, which the Superlega does not respect.
Enraged the President Ceferin contacted Agnelli: a stormy phone call in which she would call him a traitor. Irritated by the number one of the FIGC Gravina and the president of the Serie A league Dal Pino. An extraordinary advice was held in the Lega: Juve, Inter and Milan seem not to fear threats, convinced that no one would ever kick them out of A. The Rossoneri club not among the promoters of the project, was invited for its glorious past and considered that if it did not accept another Italian team it would take its place.
Superlega is born: things to know
On the dock is Agnelli. As Eca president he negotiated with UEFA the reform of the Champions League and then dismantled it, in Italy he sabotaged the negotiation for the entry of the funds into the Serie A League, as there was a clause of the same funds that forbade joining a possible Superalloy. A glaring conflict of interest, the funds would have brought 1.7 billion: now a lawsuit for damages of the Serie A clubs against Juve, Inter and Milan cannot be ruled out. The Super League is expected to generate $ 10 billion in revenue and the founding clubs will receive a one-off contribution of € 3.5 billion to support their infrastructure investment plansand and to offset the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, another slap in the face to less affluent clubs. An obvious injustice. Football has changed from today, the war only at the beginning.
April 19, 2021 (change April 19, 2021 | 10:28)
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