Ceferin's warning: If clubs play in the Super League, they can't play in UEFA's competitions
Aleksander Ceferin has launched another stinging criticism of the
European Super League, with the
UEFA president warning the clubs planning to revive it that doing so would see them excluded from the
Champions League.
Real Madrid,
Barcelona and
Juventus are reportedly plotting to resurrect the project, and
Ceferin made his feelings clear at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit in London.
"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," he 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.
Juventus president
Andrea Agnelli was in attendance at the event in London, and
Ceferin went on to take aim at him directly for his role in the launch of the
Super League project.
"They criticised
UEFA and the
ECA [European Club Association]... one of them was chairman of the
ECA," he said.
"I have quotes from where [
Agnelli] was praising the system a week before they launched the
Super League."
Threat to Super League clubs
Ceferin went on to make clear to the three clubs of the consequences of reviving the
Super League.
"They can play their own competition, nobody forbids them," he said.
"But if they play their own competition, they can't play in our competition."
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