UEFA president slams Super League rebels for resurrecting ‘nonsense’ idea ‘in the middle of a war’

Aleksander Ceferin has issued a withering assessment of plans to relaunch the failed Super League proposal

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has accused club owners still plotting to organise a European Super League as “living in a parallel world”.

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus have been condemned by Ceferin for trying to resurrect the Super League “in the middle of war”.

Ceferin was scathing about the rebel clubs, who he accused of having deliberately “launched their nonsense of an idea in the middle of a pandemic.”

Speaking via video link at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit in London, where Juventus president Andrea Agnelli was expected to lay out new plans for a breakaway, Ceferin said: "I have to say speaking about Super League is not speaking about football, but let’s speak about it anyway. In a way I am sick and tired of speaking of this non-football project.

"Look, first they launched this nonsense of an idea in the middle of a pandemic. Now we are reading articles every day they are planning to launch another idea in the middle of war. They obviously live in a parallel world.

"While we are saving players, together with other stakeholders, and work to help in a terrible situation, they work on a project like that.

"Honestly they can pay whoever they want to write, ‘This is a nice project, full of solidarity and will give charity to small ones’, this is complete nonsense and everyone except them knows it.

"One of them even after called me and apologised and then they go again. Now for them fans are customers, for us fans are fans. For us football is about football players and about fans. All the rest is a supporting team."

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in