Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid, seemed to be endorsing the notion of a European Super League when he cautioned that the current state of the football witch indicated that she was “sick.”
Perez served as president of the Super League, which was proposed last year, and has been at the helm of the key personalities who have led leading clubs in European football to withdraw from UEFA competitions in recent years.
The idea of creating the separatist competition failed because of the tenuous club alliances as well as political and public pressures, particularly after each of the six English Premier League clubs that were a part of this alliance withdrew, in addition to 3 other clubs withdrawing from the competition in the days after the announcement of 12 clubs to create the Super League.
Although Real Madrid faced Inter, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Liverpool from England during their Champions League victory last season, Perez’s main justification for this idea was to let best clubs in Europe to compete against one another more frequently.
In order to tackle a problem, one must first recognise that they have one, Perez said in a speech at the club’s general meeting on Sunday. Our sport is ailing and losing ground to others on the international stage.
When we played in 7 games with the utmost passion and interest during Real Madrid’s European Cup run, Perez continued, we shouldn’t be confused about its effects.
This was the outcome of the draw, as well as the effectiveness and superiority of our team, he continued. It was a scenario that helped the audience regain their sense of exhilaration.
According to Perez, “this is why we think that European competitions should alter, to offer spectators high-quality matches all year round between the strongest clubs, with the best players fighting.”
The 75-year-old Perez also brought up tennis, where before his retirement, Roger Federer frequently faced off against Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Spain’s Rafael Nadal.
The Real Madrid president was also quoted by the network (ESBN) as saying: “In tennis, Nadal and Federer played 40 matches in 15 years.” In 16 years, Nadal and Djokovic engaged in 59 matches.
The Spanish official further stated: In 67 years, we only made nine appearances for Liverpool in football. Four times over the history of the European Cup, we faced Chelsea.
What does it mean to deny the supporters access to all of these games?
Perez also discussed a recent Forbes rating of the 50 most expensive sports teams in the world, in which Real Madrid came in at number 13, behind numerous American sports clubs.
Perez affirmed, “We were first in all sports and now we’re 13th.” They must be doing extremely well in the US and extremely poorly in Europe.
Football is losing the global entertainment war to other sports and other media, the Real Madrid president emphasised. We require management that is professional, contemporary, and transparent, not dependent on antiquated systems from the previous century.
At the conclusion of his remarks, Perez attacked Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, saying: Recently, the president of the European Club Association (Nasser Al-Khelaifi) commented about the Super League, saying that Real Madrid is terrified of competition.
Perhaps we should keep in mind who Real Madrid is, he continued. Competition is ingrained in our DNA.
Federer and Nadal have squared off 40 times in the “Super League,” according to Real Madrid’s president.
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