Superlega, Agnelli: the project cannot go on. After the resignation of the six English clubs

• Super league, they leave the English clubs.

  Agnelli: "Without them the project is no more"

• Football, the Superlega is born with 12 of the richest clubs in Europe.

  (Almost) everyone against

• Superlega, the Franco-German axis in defense of European football

• Superalloy.

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• Storm Superlega, Chelsea and Manchester City towards the renunciation

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April 21, 2021

A little more than 48 hours after the announcement of its birth, the Super League falls apart: and after the resignation of the six English teams and, late at night, of Inter ('We are no longer interested in the project') and in the late morning of the Atletico Madrid, the words of Andrea Agnelli arrive.

The vice president of the SuperLega and Juventus patron Andrea Agnelli, speaking to Reuters, admits that after the withdrawal of the English clubs from the project the situation has become complicated. "To be frank and honest, it seems clear that we can't go on," Agnelli said. 

Juventus widens the decline in Piazza Affari after the words of President Agnelli. The stock comes to lose 12.35% to 0.76 euros. However, Juventus has not yet announced the withdrawal from the project but Agnelli's statement marks a difference with the position of Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez, who after the decision of the English clubs to take off had limited himself to talking about the need to "remodel" the project.

Complaint from Juventus fans: "Our history must not be muddied, bartered and commercialized", reads a banner of the Viking, ultra-Juventus group, which appeared on the gates of the Allianz Stadium in Turin during the night. "We are Juventus Fc. No to the Superlega ... Shame on you!", We still read on the banner, which in these hours is making the rounds of social media and which seems to refer to the president of the club Andrea Agnelli.

Therefore, the secession project of twelve noble football clubs that wanted to create a Super League to which access by right and without qualifications fails. The six Premier League clubs have taken a step back, in the wake of criticism from fans, the players themselves and the political world, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson leading the opposition front. An unexpected u-turn that arrived en masse: the first to slip away was Manchester City, which "formally started the procedures for the withdrawal", a position closely followed by Tottenham, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United, which also announced the resignation (from the end of 2021) of Ed Woodward, one of the main promoters of the project. Then there are those who have come to apologize, like Arsenal. "We made a mistake and we apologize, "the Gunners admitted in a tweet.

"The Super League project is currently no longer considered of interest by Inter." ANSA learned this from neroazzurre sources at the end of the emergency meeting of the 12 founding clubs of the project.

Atletico Madrid is also officially called out of the Super League: "The Board of Directors of Atletico Madrid, which met this Wednesday morning, decided to communicate to the Super League and the rest of the founding clubs its decision not to definitively formalize their membership. Atletico Madrid decided last Monday to join this project in response to circumstances that no longer exist today Harmony between all the groups that make up the red and white family is essential for the club, especially our fans. The squad of the first team and their coach have shown their satisfaction with the club's decision, aware that sporting merits must prevail over all other criteria ".

 "I said yesterday that it is admirable to admit a mistake and these clubs have made a big mistake. The most important thing now is to rebuild the unity that was there before and move forward together." Aleksander Ceferin, president of Uefa, is ready to welcome the clubs that in the last few hours have decided to withdraw from the Superlega project. The project was effectively shattered after just two days, with six of the 12 founding companies - England's Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham - to back down. "But now they are back in the group and I know they have a lot to offer not only to our competitions but to European football as a whole," Ceferin added in a statement.

With a flurry of tweets within a short distance of each other, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham have announced their departure from the project. It had begun to creak just over 24 hours after birth for Manchester City's turnaround which succumbed to the fury of the fans.

"I want to apologize to all Liverpool Football Club fans and supporters for the inconvenience caused in the past 24 hours." Even the American patron of the Reds, JohnW. Henry, covers his head in ashes for the failed Superlega operation. In a video message, Henry admits that the initiative was not meant to have "the support of the fans". "In these 48 hours we have listened to you, I have listened to you", he continues, extending his apologies to the coach Jürgen Klopp (publicly opposed to the Super League), to Billy Hogan, to the players of the team. But above all to the fans who - he admits - were "those treated most unjustly".

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed satisfaction with the withdrawal of English clubs from the Super League. "I welcome last night's announcement," said the Downing Street tenant referring to the announcement of the step back. This is a "good result for the fans, for the clubs and for everyone in our country," Johnson added in a tweet. "We must continue to protect this national sport that is so dear to us", he continued. The six English clubs that had joined the "secessionist" project that gave life to a new alternative tournament to the UEFA Champions League were Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester United and Chelsea. They all withdrew, some even apologizing to their fans. 

"A victory of common sense. European football is not for a privileged few". The vice president of the EU Commission Margaritis Schinas writes on Twitter