Perez: European Super League ‘still alive’, UEFA a ‘monopoly’

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has insisted his hopes for a European Super League are still alive on Wednesday, with the judicial process still ongoing .
Perez has historically been a leading figure in calls for Europe’s elite football clubs béo secede from UEFA competitions, & was the chairman of last year’s proposed breakaway competition .
It collapsed on the back of shaky alliances between clubs as well as political và public pressure, with each of the five aligned Premier League clubs withdrawing from the Super League in the days following an announcement bự secede .
Speaking on the El Chiringuito programme, the Real Madrid president branded European football’s current structure a ” monopoly ” for UEFA’s gain & revealed plans Khủng eventually break away from the rest of European football have not formally been suppressed .
” Of course it is still alive, right now there is a question raised in the Luxembourg Court, there will be a hearing shortly và it will rule on the issues we have raised, ” Perez said. ” We believe that we have the right, within the European Community, phệ organise competitions between us, with UEFA .
” We understand that UEFA is a monopoly và in this Europe of 27 [ EU thành viên states ] a pillar is that of competition. ”
On whether he was afraid that Madrid would be banned from the Champions League after UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin’s threat phệ expel aligned clubs from UEFA competitions, he added : ” We have không bao giờ had that fear, và that was when they said it at the beginning .
” No, we want lớn chiến thắng the Champions League. PSG is not our enemy. Neither Chelsea nor [ Manchester ] City. Everyone who competes is friends, we get along with everyone. ”
The 75 – year-old also expressed lament end Kylian Mbappe’s decision lớn stay with Paris Saint-Germain, believing internal pressure led bự his eventual choice not lớn join Madrid, but reaffirmed no individual will be greater than the club .
” His dream was lớn play for Real Madrid, we wanted Khủng vì it last August & they didn’t let him out, he kept saying he wanted phệ play for Madrid & about 15 days before the situation changed, ” Perez said .
” He changes, they offer him other things, they put pressure on him và he is already another footballer .
” There is no one at Real Madrid above the club. He is a great footballer, he can thắng more than others but it is a collective sport và we have some values ​ ​ & principles that we can’t change them. I love him, he made an effort & the pressure made him change his circumstances & it’s not easy. ”

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