Super League project: "A new version? In the middle of war? Complete nonsense!" (A. Ceferin, UEFA)

"I am sick and tired of speaking about this non-football project. First they launched their nonsense of an idea (European Super League project) in the middle of the pandemic. Now we are reading articles every day about them planning to launch another idea now, in the middle of war (in Ukraine, which began on 24/02/2022). While we are saving players they work on a project like that. Honestly they can pay whoever they want to write 'this is a nice project, full of solidarity and will give charity to small ones', this is complete nonsense and everyone except them knows it," said Aleksander Ceferin, president of UEFA during the "Business of Football Summit" organised by the British daily newspaper The Financial Times, at The Biltmore Mayfair Hotel in London (ENG) on 03/03/2022.

The UEFA president spoke by videoconference before Andrea Agnelli, president of Juventus FC (Serie A TIM), who is due to present a new version of the European Super League project at the same event (aptly titled "Disruption, recovery and the struggle for power"), together with FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF…