Earthquake in European football with the developments around the European Super League being rapid from Sunday afternoon.
As of yesterday, it became known that 12 top European clubs are founding the European Super League with Florentino Perez as president and Malcolm Glazer as vice-president.
Of course, this move lays a bomb on the foundations of UEFA , which is preparing to ratify the changes in the Champions League from 2024, with the meeting of its Executive Committee today.
Probably, however, 12 football giants caught up with the developments.
The Real Madrid is leading this new project and is directly beside symparastatria the organizational level of Manchester United . In this way, the European league is now officially in the works.
The ten other teams, signed a preliminary agreement and will participate along with Real Madrid and Manchester United in the organization are: Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester City (the last group time ).
The goal is for the league to close in 15-18 teams and according to the information, so far Paris and Bayern are keeping their distance and waiting for the developments to make their decisions.
At the organizational level, the president of the “merengues”, Florentino Perez, is being nominated for the head of the European Super League, with the major shareholder of Liverpool, John Henry, the major shareholder of United, Joel Glazer, vice-chair positions. The position of 4th vice-president is likely to be held by the head of Juventus, Andrea Anielli, an ally of UEFA all these years, in the capacity of the president of the ECA (Union of European Associations).
The financial firm Key Capital and JP Morgan will play a decisive role in the creation of the league for financing reasons.
The goal is to find enough resources to replace the revenue of the Champions League, but not necessarily those of the national leagues. The new venture seeks to create a super league that will allow clubs to participate in domestic competitions at the same time.
