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Talk of European Super League resurfaces
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020
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Some news sources are parroting an old news story from a few years ago about the seemingly perennial threat of a European Super League comprising the best European sides breaking away from the domestic leagues as early as 2022. Uefa continue to be dead set against the idea, which would challenge their own Champions League brand as the preeminent European club football competition but these rumblings were the expected outcome of the snub delivered to Liverpool and Manchester United last week when their "Project Big Picture” was roundly rejected by the rest of the Premier League.
The Telegraph 'credits' (if that's the right word) Real Madrid chairman Florentino Pérez with resurrecting his pet project and claiming that talks have involved Fifa.
But an American style league with no promotion or relegation seems anathema to the European roots of football: “The principles of solidarity, of promotion, relegation and open leagues are non-negotiable,” a Uefa spokesman said, adding that closed-shop proposals like those suggested by Perez “would inevitably become boring”.
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