The 12 rebel clubs planning to form a European Super League (ESL) are “ready for dialogue” with the national leagues and UEFA, sources told ESPN.
With wide hostility and opposition to the proposed ESL announced on Sunday from inside football and also from political leaders such as the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the French president Emmanuel Macron, personalities from the separatist cabal accept the need for high-level conversations to establish their plans.
President UEFA, Aleksander Ceferin, he called the group “a dozen dirty” during an explosive press conference on Monday, in which he also said that the proposals, attended by Real Madrid, Liverpool, Manchester United and others, were “spit in front of lovers. Football”.
President Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, group chairman ESL, responded by saying that football must “change and adapt”, while rejecting Ceferin’s threat to ban rebel clubs from competitions in UEFA.
A meeting of the 14 clubs from took place on Tuesday First league not participating in proposals – Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham are subscribers to the plan ESL – in an effort to agree on a strategy to combat the initiative.
But as anger at the separatist plan remains intense, confirmed by fans burning a Liverpool shirt ahead of Monday’s game against Leeds United at Elland Road, key figures in ESL They believe that conversations can lower the temperature and lead to a better understanding of the proposals.
According to the plan ESL, there would be a pay annual solidarity of EUR 160 million for clubs in First league to ensure that the money generated by the new competition is filtered into national football.
ESL leaders are determined to explain their vision of staying in the national leagues while only playing in a Super League during the week.
However, opposition to the proposals remains strong, with national leagues and associations united in their determination to block separatist competition anyway.