Three days after its launch, the European Super League project, object of all criticism, is on hiatus. In any case, this was announced by the president of Real Madrid and this “Super League” Florentino Perez on the night of Wednesday 21 to Thursday 22 April in an interview with Spanish radio Cadena Ser. “The project is on stand-by. The society (from the Super League, Editor’s note) still exists “said Florentino Perez, assuring that “Juventus and AC Milan have not left … we are all together, we think, we work”.
Also asked about joining the FC Barcelona project, Florentino Perez replied that he spoke with Barça president Joan Laporta on Wednesday: “Of course he’s still in the project”.
“We were just trying to save football”
While the six English clubs which were among the twelve founding clubs of the European Super League announced to abandon the project on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, Florentino Perez explained that he had “Worked until late, until about one in the morning. We have been working on this project for years. Maybe we didn’t know how to explain it. Maybe I’ll do it better today ”, wished Mr. Perez.
Asked at the outset, at the start of the program, to know whether we should now call him president of Real Madrid or president of the “Super League”, Florentino Perez swept away: ” No no. President of Real Madrid, that’s good ”.
“I have never seen such aggressiveness from the UEFA president and from presidents of (European) leagues like Spain. It looked like it was something orchestrated. (…) It looked like we wanted to kill football. That we had just dropped an atomic bomb. While we were just trying to save football ”, continued Florentino Perez.