The ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) released this Thursday in favor of the Super League is generating a wave of reactions. Associations, competitions and unions are some of the entities that have positioned themselves against the possible creation of a new club football championship. In this regard, many teams from Europe, but also from the First and Second Division, have not been left behind.
Among the most notable are several founding teams of the Super League such as Inter Milan, Manchester United, Manchester City, Atlético de Madrid, Chelsea and Tottenham, which have been categorically against the Super League. Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and PSG also maintained their previous position and reject the new competition.
"Our position has not changed. We remain committed to working with our ECA colleagues and participating in UEFA competitions," City said in a statement. Hours before, Manchester United issued an almost identical statement. "Our position has not changed. We are fully committed to participating in UEFA competitions and cooperating with UEFA, the Premier League and the rest of the ECA clubs for the development of European football," United said in a statement. release.
In Spain, Betis, Mallorca, Osasuna or Cádiz are some of the teams, militants in the highest category of Spanish football, who have shown their disagreement about this hypothetical new competition, through their social networks. Also Valencia and Villarreal, clubs from the Valencian Community, as well as Levante and Espanyol, teams from the Hypermotion League.
Just before the Betis - Girona and Cádiz Real Sociedad matches, both teams posed together with the slogan 'Earn it on the field', a campaign that LaLiga has started to protest against the possible new competition.
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Atlético de Madrid has been one of the last clubs to take a position on this issue. The colchonero team, which was one of the founding teams, has stated that "the ECA and UEFA have created a partnership that makes the consideration that UEFA is a monopoly meaningless." "The European football family does not want the European Super League," reads the red and white statement.
The only teams in the League that have stayed away from this position so far are Barça and Real Madrid. The Blaugrana president, Joan Laporta, has shown himself "satisfied" with the resolution in question and has explained that the culé entity does not want to go against either the Spanish leagues or the national championships in general.
For his part, the Madrid president, Florentino Pérez, commented that "from today, European football is in the hands of the clubs." The white president considers the Super League as "a modern project fully compatible with national competitions and based on sporting merit."
