There Can’t Be A European Super League With Just Six Clubs, Says Juventus President Agnelli
Juventus president Andrea Agnelli has performed a u-turn on comments made just hours earlier that the European Super League would still go ahead as planned despite the six English clubs pulling out of the competition.
Agnelli has been the breakaway competition’s biggest proponent along with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, and had been adamant that the league would move ahead regardless of the decisions made by other clubs, but that stance has changed.
“You can’t have a tournament with just six clubs,” Agnelli told Reuters.
Earlier, Agnelli had insisted that the breakaway tournament would go ahead.
“There has been a blood compact between our clubs, the Super League project has a 100 percent chance of success, we will move forward,” Agnelli told Republica.
“We want to create the best competition in the world capable of benefiting the entire football pyramid, increasing the distribution of resources among the other clubs and remaining open with five places available each year for others, which will be defined through dialogue with the institutions of football.
“We will stay in domestic competitions, we will play in all the stadiums in Italy, Spain and England. Our work will be intrinsically linked to domestic competitions,” he said, while adding that “the bonus of 350 million [euros] a year is false”.
The Super League announced on Wednesday morning, after a video call between the remaining clubs, after the withdrawal of the six English teams, that they would continue with a modification of the project, although Angelli’s latest comments make it clear that has all now changed.
