Barcelona is defending the Super League and is looking to review its tournament plan

Barcelona, ​​one of the best football clubs in the world, has defended the controversial Super League project has fallen this week, arguing against the “pressure action” and calling for a review of the proposed competition “without unjustified pressure and fear”.

The Spanish club, which is battling pandemic losses, was its main opponent in Real Madrid on Thursday night in favor of the breakaway tournament.

“He was convinced that the decision would be a historic mistake to refuse the opportunity to be part of this project to become one of its founding members,” Barcelona said.

However, both sides of Spain are struggling to make the competition a reality as a result of the reaction from fans, rivals, governing bodies, players and politicians who expressed their intention to back most of the clubs created in England, Italy and Spain. .

Earlier on Thursday, La Liga in Spain said 12 football clubs that wanted to create widespread criticism of the European Super League had to control their finances after spending many years with players.

Barcelona has suffered assembling debts after significant losses as a result of match day revenue. The Super League was designed to give its founding members “welcome bonuses” of between 200 and 300 million euros to help heal from the pandemic.

Criticism a million-euro project that is now gone his sponsors have accused his sponsors of trying to create a “closed” competition run by the richest clubs, most of whom now plan to withdraw from the project.

Javier Tebas, president of the League leading the first two major divisions in Spain, told a news conference on Thursday that runaway clubs would have to rethink their business models to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and that wealth should be distributed among clubs and more countries.

“Maybe these clubs should control their spending more than their spending,” said Tebas, one of Europe’s strongest football executives.

The call for reduced spending would lead to a major change for clubs that have increased transfer and salary budgets to sign and retain star players over the years, and indicate how the collapse of the Superliga will not be resolved. tremendous losses due to the pandemic suffered by leagues and clubs.

“Instead of three or four Ferraris, you just have one Ferrari and, in short, adjust the expenses to what reality is and our reality is now marked by Covid, which reminds us that revenue cannot grow indefinitely,” said Fernando Roig. Villarreal CF majority league owner and president.

The escape teams hoped the Super League could attract billions in revenue to make money after the coronavirus pandemic. Deloitte consultants report that the world’s 20 richest clubs will have to lose 2 billion euros in revenue in the two seasons of the pandemic.

Florentino Pérez, The president of Real Madrid and head of the Super League, claimed that the competition would “save football” and that the revenue growth generated by Europe’s top clubs could also benefit rivals.

He complained that Thebes is “made up of figures that are not real,” and called the project “Superliga Powerpoints.” The president of La Liga has stressed that he will make an effort to prevent a resurgence of a similar breakaway, but will not impose sanctions on clubs.

The effects of the 12 clubs following the Superliga are still emerging. In England, the Premier League is making efforts to remove representatives from Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur from its subcommittees, according to someone close to the English first division.

Joel Glazer, a member of the US multimillion-dollar family and owner of Manchester United, has apologized for his club’s role in the Superliga, but has stressed the need for football to be “more sustainable”.