Only 48 hours after the announcement of the creation of the Super League, one or two English clubs, possibly Chelsea and Manchester City, are already considering reversing the uproar. The first loopholes that UEFA intends to exploit to undermine the dissident project.
Aleksander Ceferin could quickly find a smile …
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There is still time to change your mind. You’ve made a huge mistake, but everyone’s making mistakes. On the occasion of his speech to the UEFA Congress on Tuesday, the president of the European body, Aleksander Ceferin, sent a strong message to the dissidents.
Despite the scale of the scandal aroused on Sunday by the announcement of the creation of the Super League, the leader promises not to sanction the 12 clubs behind the project if they agree to keep a low profile and return to the fold of the mother house.
UEFA targets the weak
These words are part of a well-defined strategy. In addition to wielding the stick with the threat of exclusion for clubs and players who would participate in the firm league, UEFA is also trying to wield the carrot. As the revelation L’Equipe on Tuesday, the body intends to engage in dialogue to convince two or three of the twelve founding members of this project to reverse in order to bring it down.
Obviously, UEFA does not choose its targets at random and primarily targets reluctant clubs, those which have joined the Super League more out of opportunism than out of real conviction. And precisely, the first signs of weakness come from appearing on the English side, the country from which half of the hard core (6 clubs out of 12: Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham) come.
Chelsea and Manchester City already have remorse
The Times reveals that one of the English rebels, unidentified, would already consider withdrawing from the competition in the face of the scale of the scandal that this project arouses, in particular on the side of the supporters, but also of the authorities and political authorities. The serious The Guardian moderates this information a little, but gives him names by asserting that Chelsea and Manchester City would show serious doubts about this project. be worried following threats of immediate exclusion from European competitions that the UEFA executive committee could pronounce on Friday against the rebels?
The fact remains that the two formations would have taken advantage of the Congress of the instance this Tuesday to begin to test the ground about a possible return in the folds of the UEFA. If the latter manages to repatriate one or two of its station sheep, the Super League project would be greatly weakened. Let us remember that the dissidents are in fact still looking for 3 founding members, so if they have to deal with defects …
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