Football Leaks: "I absolutely and clearly reject this ('betraying the ECA')" (K-H Rummenigge)

"In its current issue no. 45 dated 03/112018, 'Der Spiegel' magazine claims that Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, as chairman of the European Club Association (ECA), had betrayed all medium-sized and smaller member clubs belonging to the ECA," stated FC Bayern Munich (Bundesliga) on 02/11/2018.

"I absolutely and clearly reject this. The vote in favour of the reform agreed between UEFA and the ECA was unanimous," stated Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in the press release of Bayern Munich.

"In 2016, the team worked in secret with six other top European football clubs (thought to include among the six: Real Madrid CF, FC Barcelona, and Juventus FC) to come up with a plan for founding their own Super League. The European umbrella organization UEFA was only able to avoid a scenario in which the continent's top football teams walked away from the established system of competitions by promising the leading clubs significantly more money and power starting in the 2018-19 season," said Der Spiegel, which is part of 14 other European media outlets which comprise the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC…