Exclusive"A European SuperLeague with 40 or 44 clubs and end of promotion-relegation" (W. Gaillard, ex-UEFA)

"To put everything back in order -- and even if this makes some people scream -- it is necessary to abolish promotion-relegation. It would take a big European SuperLeague, with North and a South conferences -- like the North Americans do with their East, Center, and West divisions -- with 20 or 22 teams in each and big play-offs at the end. We obviously abolish the Champions League, so this will make fewer matches, and we can keep the national championships for the other clubs," stated William Gaillard, sports consultant and former director of communications and political affairs of UEFA, to News Tank Football on 26/05/2020.

The landscape of European football drawn by the one who was the main adviser to Michel Platini, then president of UEFA, is rather bleak: "An enormous concentration of wealth, a spectacular increase in inequality, and when one says inequality one also says predictability: everyone knows in advance who will win the domestic leagues. Wages and transfers represent 90% of a team's budget, three players' agents control the transfer market. Sovereign States which are…