Tribune. Apparently, the creators of the European Football Super League have given up on their plans, but in fact, the transgression is made and its motives are stated: less followed by the new generations, football needs to renew its spectacle, so that the Covid-19 has plunged all European clubs into the red.
If the project was shattered in 48 hours, it is difficult to speak of failure for the clubs promoting this project as the logic of the reform of the Champions League proposed at the same time by the Union of European associations of football (UEFA) takes back their will. More matches, more television rights and secure competition participation for big clubs who have lived beyond their means for years. A curious approach which, faced with a drop in demand, suggests an increase in supply.
A predation operation
It is therefore not a reform, but an operation of predation of the powerful of a speculative football whose economic model no longer holds. Florentino Perez, the president of Real Madrid, admits it himself, in spite of himself: “If there is no money with the big guys, they don’t buy players from others. It is a pyramid. “ Everyone will appreciate in passing the definition of runoff given by the rogue Perez: a system where the most powerful monopolize all the wealth to then decide to whom they distribute the crumbs, if they want and need it – notice to amateurs.
Football fans woke up after several days of a tragicomic episode, where they were able, on all channels, to protest against the announcement of this kind of NBA [National Basketball Association] upside down, with sporting stakes as ill-defined as the financial stakes (400 million euros per year for each club) were enormous. So, have they really succeeded in turning the tables? Doubt is allowed.
In reality, football already operates according to a principle of economic inequality which has almost broken with the dramaturgy of this sport. How far away are the days when, in an article published in Il Giorno, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) considered football as a system of signs, and therefore a language, where the passes would be prose and where the dribbles and actions that lead to a goal would be poetry.
“For ten years, the national championships have been trusted by a handful of clubs and all suspense has disappeared. Pile I win, face you lose “
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