The president of the Spanish Football League, Javier Tebas, said that the major European clubs wishing to establish a separate "Super Continental" league would destroy themselves and harm the football system in the world.
Reports of a separate league have spread since the start of the "Covid-19" pandemic's destruction of sports, which led to matches being held behind closed doors, costing clubs about 8.5 billion euros.
In an interview with Reuters, Tebas said that the European Super League will not help the clubs in the long run and will destroy the domestic leagues.
"Whether there is a pandemic or not, the European Super League will not destroy football in general by destroying local tournaments, but it will destroy the very clubs that propose to establish it," Tebas continued.
"It is a project that may meet some success in the short term, but in the long term it will be a disaster. The clubs do not realize that such a radical change will harm them in the medium and long term as well," he added.
Tebas said that Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and Liverpool were the driving forces behind the project, adding that other clubs in Spain and the world were strongly opposed to it.
Former Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said he signed the Catalan club’s agreement to join the European Super League when it resigned last October.
Last December, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez hinted at the creation of a new tournament, saying that the losses incurred by clubs as a result of the pandemic imposed on them "innovation", and added that reforming world football "cannot wait."
However, Tebas questioned the wisdom of interfering in the current system of the game due to the pandemic, and predicted that clubs would return to achieving previous levels of revenue once the vaccination against the Corona virus was completed and the fans returned to the stadiums.
"The best thing is to continue with the current system. We have an excellent system in the local tournaments and the European Champions League, which is characterized by financial strength, so we need to continue working on that ... we cannot make drastic changes that will completely destroy the system."