We also said to ourselves, it had been a while since we had heard someone relaunch the little music of the Super League.
Florentino Perez, who still thinks it's a genius idea, put a coin back in the machine this Sunday, believing that this competition would offer "high quality matches", unlike the new C1 version laid by Aleksander Ceferin.
"The goal of the Super League is to modernize football," he told Real Madrid's annual general meeting.
UEFA, with its reshaping of the Champions League, is doing the opposite.
The Real Madrid president compared football to tennis, where the best players compete several times a year.
“Why do you want to deprive fans of big posters?
Nadal and Federer have faced each other more than 40 times, Nadal and Djokovic have played against each other 59 times: is it boring?
Real Madrid and Liverpool have only faced each other nine times in 67 years.
As a reminder, in April 2021, a dozen of the most prestigious clubs in Europe had tried to set up this new competition, but the European governing bodies had opposed the project, also criticized by the fans.
This Sunday, Perez attacked the president of PSG Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is also the president of the European Club Association and who had as such firmly opposed the Super League project.
“The president of the European Club Association said that Real Madrid wanted to launch the Super League for fear of competition.
Maybe we should remind him what Real Madrid is, the most successful club in history,” the White House boss pointed out.
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