Football fans around the world were thrown into disarray yesterday 19th April when Real Madrid president Florentino Perez announced the inauguration of European Super League (ESL), a football league which he claimed is for European elites.
According to him, 12 clubs from Italy, England, Spain are the founders and these clubs are the top clubs from their respective leagues.
Talks are still underway to invite FC Bayern Munich, Paris Saint- Germain, RB Leipzig, Dortmund and other European clubs.
Furthermore, it’s reported that every club that accepts the invite will be paid over €425m while the founding clubs will take a net grant of approximately €3.5bn.
Although, FIFA and UEFA disagree with this decision and have decided to ban all participants from their local leagues.
According to reports, The Danish FA chairman Jesper Moller announced that both Real Madrid, Chelsea and Man City could be kicked out of the Champions League Semi’s, and crown Paris Saint Germain as the winner.
EKO HOT BLOG gathered that UEFA is threatening a legal action against them, and that is why Moller who is a member of UEFA’s Executive Committee, said the clubs involved in this act could be kicked out of the competition.
Moller went on to say that players are free to leave the 12 clubs who have signed in the new League because their contracts automatically has expired since the clubs decided to leave. But players who have decided to play in the Super League, will be banned from the World Cup and Euros.
UEFA’s president Alexander praised the likes of Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint Germain among others for not joining the Super League. He added that the idea behind creating the league was greed.
A reformed Champions League plan which now consist of 36 teams, has been unveiled by UEFA after the breakaway of the 12 clubs.
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