Real Madrid, Juventus and Barca not giving up on Super League

Barcelona chief Joan Laporta on Sunday followed Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and their Juventus counterpart Andrea Agnelli in defending the project to his club's supporters."I'm optimistic. Given the inaction of UEFA, regarding the distortion which the financial doping by state-owned clubs generates, we have to react."Real, Barcelona and Juventus are the only clubs that have tried to keep alive a project that would be direct competition with the Champions League."What is the point of depriving the fans of the big matches? Nadal and Federer met 40 times. Nadal and Djokovic, 59, is it boring? Liverpool and Real Madrid have faced nine times in 67 years," he told Madrid's members' assembly. The Super League project came back to life in July, when litigation for an alleged abuse of a dominant position by UEFA was brought to the European Union Court of Justice, at the request of a Madrid judge to whom the Super League chiefs turned.UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin responded to Perez, telling a news conference in Rome: "Once again he has shown that his idea is to close everything off, without games against smaller teams.On Sunday, Laporta told Barcelona members that he favoured an open competition.On Saturday, in an interview with Sonora reported by Marca, Laporta explained why he would prefer not to have a closed format. "Those who like football among us, would end up tired. It's healthy and beautiful that a smaller team can beat a bigger team."A Super League would be an improved Champions League, with a better format, it would surely be the most attractive competition in the world," he added.Opponents of the project have also been active. To counter the Super League, UEFA announced a sweeping overhaul of the Champions League in May to start in 2024, with 36 teams instead of 32 and an eight-match mini-championship instead of the traditional group stage. "Sales of the new format in the US are up 150 percent. In the UK and France, not so much. It shows that the new format is very successful even before it starts," said Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, one of the big European clubs that was part of the initial Super League 'breakaway'.The judicial process may be key in the conflict's ultimate resolution. The final decision is expected near the beginning of 2023....

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Barcelona chief Joan Laporta on Sunday followed Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and their Juventus counterpart Andrea Agnelli in defending the project to his club's supporters."I'm optimistic. Given the inaction of UEFA, regarding the distortion which the financial doping by state-owned clubs generates, we have to react."Real, Barcelona and Juventus are the only clubs that have tried to keep alive a project that would be direct competition with the Champions League."What is the point of depriving the fans of the big matches? Nadal and Federer met 40 times. Nadal and Djokovic, 59, is it boring? Liverpool and Real Madrid have faced nine times in 67 years," he told Madrid's members' assembly. The Super League project came back to life in July, when litigation for an alleged abuse of a dominant position by UEFA was brought to the European Union Court of Justice, at the request of a Madrid judge to whom the Super League chiefs turned.UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin responded to Perez, telling a news conference in Rome: "Once again he has shown that his idea is to close everything off, without games against smaller teams.On Sunday, Laporta told Barcelona members that he favoured an open competition.On Saturday, in an interview with Sonora reported by Marca, Laporta explained why he would prefer not to have a closed format. "Those who like football among us, would end up tired. It's healthy and beautiful that a smaller team can beat a bigger team."A Super League would be an improved Champions League, with a better format, it would surely be the most attractive competition in the world," he added.Opponents of the project have also been active. To counter the Super League, UEFA announced a sweeping overhaul of the Champions League in May to start in 2024, with 36 teams instead of 32 and an eight-match mini-championship instead of the traditional group stage. "Sales of the new format in the US are up 150 percent. In the UK and France, not so much. It shows that the new format is very successful even before it starts," said Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, one of the big European clubs that was part of the initial Super League 'breakaway'.The judicial process may be key in the conflict's ultimate resolution. The final decision is expected near the beginning of 2023....