Florentino Pérez with Laporta: "The Super League is not dead"

Florentino Pérez and Joan Laporta

have started the comeback of the Super League.

The presidents of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona had breakfast together at the Nueva Economía Fórum to announce that their Super League project is still alive.

They did it through the mouth of

, CEO of A22 Sports Management, the company promoting the project: "The Super League is by no means dead, but very much alive."

The two main promoters come to the fore one day after hearing the opinion of the CJEU general counsel on the case,

, who does not deny the legality of a competition outside the UEFA and FIFA ecosystem, but warns that it does not they may continue to participate in regular competitions without the prior authorization of those federations.

"We will continue working while waiting for the final decision of the CJEU. (...) We remain convinced that UEFA cannot be everything at once, it is judge and party, it regulates competition and access to the market. In any other sector it would be intolerable to assume that one has all those functions because there would be no innovation," Reichart said.

The German executive indicated that in the coming months they will resume the dialogue started with clubs from all countries, who "know that changes are necessary and have understood that this case could change the sports system in Europe."

At the moment, together with Barça and Real Madrid, there would be

, who at the moment already has enough sports, business, family and legal problems after Andrea Agnelli's dismissal as president at the hands of his own cousin.

"We have launched that honest, open and non-coercive dialogue at the end of October and

, we need to know the legal framework on which we can build an alternative. We have said that our competition is open and during the week, but they turn a deaf ear to be able to make their alarmist messages. Nobody talks about not playing the national leagues," he said, alluding mainly to LaLiga.

Reichart pointed out that "some clubs fear sanctions but less and less" and "they know that the changes are absolutely necessary, that they cannot continue in the direction in which they are going, a

serious financial

is necessary, the governance and the clubs must to be masters of their own destiny".

"People have a lot of offer to engage with other forms than football,

, offer them better matches and not be complacent with them seeing highlights on

. My ambition would be for the European competition to be also the most viewed in Europe, now it is the Premier, we should have the freedom to work on it and make proposals," he added.

A speech that coincides with the one repeated on numerous occasions by Florentino Pérez, who in the October Assembly of delegates said: "Nadal and Federer have met more than 40 times,

have played 59 games... is this perhaps Boring? Yet Madrid and Liverpool have only met nine times in 67 years. What's the point of depriving fans of these games?"

Luis Alonso, managing partner of the commercial area of ​​the Clifford Chance law firm, who represents the Super League, highlighted in the same Forum that the CJEU "is restricting free competition in professional sports under Article 165, which should not be understood as

, which is the pillar of the EU, and cannot be restricted by this."

"Would someone want to say that the Six Nations of rugby or the Tour are not compatible with the European model of the sport, for 22 years the Euroleague of basketball has been played and there has been no obstacle," he stressed.

Luis Alonso recalled that there is "

- which was 27 years old yesterday - which was the consecration of the free movement of workers in professional sports" and he hoped that "the Super League will be the consecration of free competition in professional sport."

The case will now go to the chamber made up of 15 CJEU judges who will issue their ruling in the spring of 2023 and which will be binding on the court that referred it to the European court in April 2021.

In this case, it was the Commercial Court number 17 of Madrid, after receiving a complaint from A22 and the European Super League Company (ESL) for possible abuse of a dominant position by UEFA and FIFA.

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