Leaders 2019: "Creating a new competition is not rocket science" (L-C Olsson, European Leagues)

"Creating a new competition is not rocket science even if it sounds complicated. The most important thing is to agree on something where the domestic competitions and international competitions are able to work side by side. Primarily fans are interested in the domestic competitions, and then the national team, then club competitions. And that’s a shame. But this is also the direction we have to develop European club football," said Lars-Christer Olsson (SWE), president of European Leagues, during the 2019 edition of the Leaders Week conference cycle held at Twickenham Stadium in London (ENG), on 08/10/2019.

"I don’t think Andrea Agnelli is right that we are being melodramatic, because we have made a proposal that we are addressing the problem starting with principals. It doesn’t make sense for us to make comments on a format, and we don’t want a closed league. The proposal from the national associations looks pretty much like our proposal, which says this is what we’d like to achieve," added the leader of the union of professional leagues.

"What happened in the spring (2019), a…