Imagine that in the attic of his building lives Elon Muskable to buy Twitter if they give him ten minutes of recreation, and in the first, a couple of mileuristas with a mortgage up to their eyebrows. And that, therefore, they are obliged to agree if the portal has to be lined with marble or if the doorman has to wear Versace or a jumpsuit. Multiply the hype by two and you have UEFA. Ceferin manages that community, he needs everyone’s votes and understands that only the disciplinary route suffocates conflicts.
Football launched its Marshall Plan during the postwar period. The European Cup was an instrument of conciliation, it crossed the Iron Curtain and knew how to look East and West. That time passed and football began to receive money that the business did not produce to launder tycoons or states and that altered the natural order of things: City went to United, Chelsea to Liverpool… and Malaga went to the Champions League and now he is about to leave professional football. To prevent this artifice from liquidating a club if the oligarch changed his whim, a financial ‘fair play’ was born that is transgressed with total impunity. Given this inaction, the clubs that do not feed on oil believe that the income offered by that UEFA that looks the other way will not allow them to stay in the cartel. If Ceferin wants to know the germ of a Super League that I don’t like either, let him start there. And that it does not seem that his invention will be the same without three teams that have won almost a third of the Champions League.
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