Football: Manchester City formalizes its withdrawal from the Super League project

The Super League, stillborn project. Faced with the outcry and threats from football authorities, the twelve founding dissident clubs of this rival private competition of the Champions League already seem to be saying goodbye to the project. Tuesday evening, it was the Manchester City club which formalized its withdrawal from the competition, against the backdrop of deep criticism from supporters and authorities. "Manchester City Football Club can confirm that they have formally initiated the procedure to withdraw from the group responsible for developing the European Super League project," the club wrote in a terse statement.

According to the English media, the London club Chelsea could also leave this project imminently.

Other clubs are also on the verge of taking the plunge and abandoning this multibillion-euro project supposed to "save football", according to its initial promoters.  

Doubts from Monday

They thought they would convince the football world by offering more high-stakes matches, and were aiming for colossal income by securing a permanent ticket in an event almost inaccessible to other teams on the continent ... But the twelve "mutineers", led by Real Madrid, Liverpool or Juventus Turin, began to doubt so loudly that they had seceded on the night of Sunday to Monday.