The La Liga chief believes that the renewed talks of the European Super League makes the clubs look like idiots.
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La Liga chief Javier Tebas has hit out at Juventus Chairman Andrea Agnelli as his club alongside Spanish league giants FC Barcelona and Real Madrid were involved in renewed talks of the European Super League. In the first attempt to form the league, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid, were a part of the scheme which did not work out and had to be shut down in no time after fierce opposition from the supporters.
However, the three clubs, have not shelved the prospect of forming the league yet as Agnelli is looking for fresh support to form the league which will run alongside the UEFA Champions League.
“He [Agnelli] will have to explain it, if he doesn’t explain it, he will be lying,” Tebas said at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit in London.
“A week ago, I think it was in his house there was a meeting of the three teams. Now they are saying they don’t want fixed slots, Real Madrid are saying they don’t want the first slot. It is false. It is very difficult for the English teams to form part of this competition so they are creating a European league with two categories and the national leagues are the second categories.
“There will be two or three people relegated but there will always be the typical teams – Juventus, Barcelona, Real Madrid. It will be difficult for them to go down. They have made enemies of UEFA and the Premier League, whose growth goes against their model. We know this, we have got this information. They can say what they want but this is what they are working on. Every time I read about it, I get cross, I think they lie more than Putin to be honest.
“They are insisting that introducing this will not affect national leagues. We must be idiots, we must be dumb. But we all say it hurts the national leagues. For me it is an insult, I feel humiliated. They will do huge harm.”
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UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin also joined the bandwagon to criticise the prominent clubs. He has grown tired of the incessant Super League talks and reiterated that they will remove any club that gets involved in the new scheme from all other European competitions.
“I have to say that those speaking about the Super League are not speaking about football. I am sick and tired of this non-football project,” Ceferin said.
“First, they launched their nonsense of the idea in the middle of a pandemic. Now, we read articles that they are planning to launch another idea now in the middle of a war. Do I have to speak more about these people? They obviously live in a parallel world.
“We are helping in a terrible situation, they are working on a project like that. They can pay whoever they want to write ‘this is a nice project, they are full of solidarity, there will be charity to small ones’.
“This is nonsense and everyone knows it. One of them, after it, called me and apologised – but then they go again. For them, the fans are customers. For us, the fans are fans.”“This is nonsense and everyone knows it. One of them, after it, called me and apologised – but then they go again. For them, the fans are customers. For us, the fans are fans.”
