BARCELONA – Barcelona, who remain an active member of the European Super League for the time being, could abandon the project if their partners decide in the Committee Meeting that the club intends to take place in May, revealed ESPN Sports, a source from Barça , acknowledging that, although according to the statutes Joan Laporta would not have been obliged to submit to the Assembly the accession to the project, his wish is to know the opinion of the partners.
Barça has signed an entry into the project, in the company of 11 other clubs, on the specific condition that, if it receives a negative response from its members, it will have the power to unsubscribe from the agreement without no equivalent or penalty.
The Barça club maintains a scrupulous institutional peace in the face of the crisis triggered in the last hours in anticipation of the development of events, which are beginning to jeopardize the continuity of the project.
In fact, the moves that took place on Tuesday, with the announced departure from Manchester City, could speed up contacts between the clubs that remain in the project for the time being, which would organize an emergency meeting in the next few hours to find out the way forward.
According to TV3, the other five British clubs (Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham) would soon join the loss of their citizens, and Atlético de Madrid would study this resolution as well.
The opposite reaction of the fans, especially in England, exerting great pressure on the clubs that sign the agreement, would have been the trigger for this crisis, after characters belonging to them, such as the case of Pep Guardiola or Jürgen Klopp, spoke out against this new competitions.
Barça, for the moment, remained in a discreet background and ignoring all the media noise triggered after the creation of the project of which it is a founding member. On Monday, he issued a statement announcing his accession … And since then he has remained silent, giving Florentino Pérez, the president of Real Madrid and SuperLiga, all the leading role.