The president of the Royal Club, who is also the first captain of ESL, spoke about this in an interview with the Spanish sports daily AS after the initiative announced on Monday came under widespread attack and among the 12 established teams, in principle, only Real and Barcelona.
The thing is that clubs can’t quit smoking
Perez said. “Of course, some of them had to say so under pressure, but This project, or something similar to it, will bear fruit. I hope so in the near future.”
The creation of the European Premier League, planned for twenty teams, was announced from Sunday to Monday, with six English clubs and three Italian and Spanish clubs among the founders, but the plan is in the top political and sports circles, the International Federation (FIFA) and the European Union (UEFA), as Widely opposed. Fan groups also drew criticism for the planned series.
Then, for the first time on Tuesday evening, Manchester City announced that it would step down from the cast, followed by Chelsea at dawn on Wednesday, then Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur retracted.
With the resignations of Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan on Wednesday afternoon and the announcement of uncertainty over the future of the league by Juventus and Milan, only two clubs, Barcelona and Real Madrid, remain official members of the Premier League, which is scheduled to have 15 permanent participants.
Perez, 74, too He denied that US investment bank JP Morgan, which is ready to back the league with 3.5 billion euros, would have backtracked on the project..
The sporting director said: “It’s not true either, they didn’t leave either. They asked for time to interact like the 12 clubs.” “If change is needed, we will change.”
It is believed that either this series will be created or the clubs will be destroyed.
Florentino Pérez declared: “The federations will revolt because only the clubs funded by the state will survive, or those whose owners have millions of dollars enjoying themselves, and it will not be a problem for them to lose hundreds of millions of euros in one season.”
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