Real Madrid president, Florentino Perez, is still pushing for the implementation of the European Super League, as he continued to argue for the controversial competition at Real Madrid's AGM this morning.
In one of football's biggest stories of recent years, the proposed competition, intended to replace the Champions League as Europe's premier club tournament, initially had the backing of the continent's biggest clubs.
However, after widespread condemnation from fans and UEFA, many of them pulled out and apologised for their involvement, including all of the Premier League clubs associated.
However, Perez appears hell-bent on finding a way to revive the project, and hit-out at UEFA and the president of PSG, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, in his address to the AGM assembly.
"New Champions League model UEFA are proposing will only aggravate the problem.
"If UEFA was responsible for world tennis, we would only see a Nadal vs Federer match twice or thrice.
"Football is sick. Young people are less and less interested. We are LOSING the global entertainment battle.
Nadal-Djokovic has been played 59 times, is that boring? Real Madrid & Liverpool, only 9 times in 67 years. What's the point of depriving fans of these matches?
"Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Real Madrid launched the Super League because they’re afraid of competition. Maybe we remind him who Real Madrid is, the most successful club in HISTORY.”
"The Superliga would not be a closed competition. It would have 25% of its places open."
Perez Continues The Fight For The Super League
Florentino Pérez at Real Madrid AGM this morning says that his club ‘have the responsibility for protecting football’ He doubles down on his plan to pursue Uefa through the European courts to allow clubs to breakaway and form their own competitions
— Sam Wallace (@SamWallaceTel) October 2, 2022
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"As per Forbes, Real Madrid is 13th most valuable sports club in the world, we were 5th before. There’s only 3 football clubs in these rankings. They must be doing something very well in USA while very badly, here in Europe.
"We've won the Champions League 14 times & now we're only thinking about getting 15, that's the mentality of Real Madrid.
"Football needs professional, modern & transparent for everyone. We must stop the deterioration of football. That's why we took the step of offering a competition like the Super League.”
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