translated from Spanish: Florentino Pérez said the SuperLiga is in “stand by”: “UEFA put on a show”

Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez said on Thursday that “the Super League still exists” even though it is now stand by after the resignation of many of its founding clubs and the UEFA “aggressive spectacle” that killed them immediately, dynamited the new European competition format.” The Superliga still exists but the project is in ‘stand by'”, he indicated in statements to Cadena Ser of Spain. “I don’t think we’ve presented it well, but we haven’t been given the opportunity to explain it well. We’ve been working on this project for many years,” he said. The white leader, also appointed president of the Super League, explained that “life changes,” “new generations demanding new things,” and football has to “take care” to keep selling. “Yesterday’s 12 teams last season have missed 650 million, this two or three more times. This format doesn’t work and we came up with the idea of doing a Championship with the most important teams in Europe,” he explained.” We did numbers and thought that a lot more money could be taken out, so that they would not lose the greats and solidarity for the other teams. I have never seen greater aggression on the part of the UEFA president or some League presidents. After breaking the news, we asked to see the president of UEFA and FIFA and they didn’t even answer us. He starts aggressiveness, threats, insults, as if we had killed football, and football must be saved,” he added. Florentino explained that the opportunity to improve revenue is to make a continental competition better than the Champions League. “The League is untouchable. Where you can get some money out is on weekdays, the Champions League format is obsolete, it’s old and it’s only interested from the quarters,” he said, surely football will have to evolve into a Super League of some kind. The white leader explained that the resignations of the English came also because of one’s doubts, but he denied that Juve or Milan have come down. “Juventus are not gone, nor has Milan gone,” as well as confirming that they have held talks with Joan Laporta on Wednesday to learn about FC Barcelona’s stance, while Atletico did get off the project.” There was someone in the English group who didn’t have much interest, that infected the others. He was never very convinced, with the Premier warming up came the avalanche, we were told we’re going to quit. A manipulated campaign, that we were going to end the Leagues. I’m convinced that if this project doesn’t come out, there’ll be another like this. We’re not going to do it and it looks like we’re going to kill football, there’s no other solution, that someone else invents,” he added.

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