according to a media specific. A firm of consultants to Real Madrid in October plans to be submitted, reports the mirror. Accordingly, it was planned that 16 Topclubs, including the Bundesliga clubs FC Bayern München and Borussia Dortmund, a Declaration of intent later this month to sign.
Should the plans be implemented, it would be 2021 for the Champions League, the European football Association Uefa hosting. The Superleague would be organized in accordance with these ideas privately, outside of the existing associations.
according to The report, the FC Bayern was in the context of different scenarios to consider, among other things, whether the Association could get off from the Bundesliga. And if a club in the newly created League players would have to leave for national teams. In the Person of his Boss, General counsel Michael Gerlinger, the Association should have a law firm check whether the of Munich, could not get out from the European competitions, but also from the Bundesliga.
had been By the following the Reform of the Champions League, which secures the four strongest leagues in each of the four starting places for the group phase, a Superleague at that time is no longer an issue. Gerlinger said the mirror, that mind games had been the exit from the Bundesliga fast "completely off the table".
BVB-boss Hans-Joachim Watzke: "as Long as I'm in charge here, will not leave BVB in the Bundesliga." There are current discussions about the Superliga, "is that clear, and I also believe that a few of the big Clubs of Europe to knit because it is clearly stated in it". However, these plans were "not very concrete".
FC Bayern Munich has reacted to the report with a commitment to the League and to the existing European Cup competitions. "The FC Bayern Munich stands by its membership of the football League and competitions as long as I am Chairman of the Executive Board of FC Bayern, the Uefa and the ECA jointly organised Club," said the Chairman of the Board Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. The plans for super League are FC Bayern, is neither known, nor Bayern have participated in negotiations, it said in a statement from the club.
Rummenigge had said in an Interview in the magazine 11 Freunde that he expected in the distant future with the introduction of a European Superleague: "I suspect that this League will come one day. But don't ask me when."
among the 16 Clubs that could play according to the level of 2021 in a Superleague, in addition to the FC Bayern, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Manchester United, FC Chelsea, FC Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool FC, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and AC Milan as the founder, can not descend. To do this, Atlético Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Olympique Marseille, Inter Milan and AS Roma as the "initial guests come first". In the interview, a second League, in which only these guests would be able to descend.
Background of the games is that in the coming year the funds from the Champions League by 2021 to be re-distributed. Currently, the Uefa pay annual premiums of two billion to the Clubs in the Champions League, the most successful clubs get up to 100 million euros. The idea that the Topclubs organize in a League of its own, to achieve much higher revenue, there are already a few decades.
three years Ago the plans were according to the report, more with the top clubs from the existing leagues could get out. Then, too, negotiations on the distributions of the Champions League. In the year 2016 discussed the League should run with Play on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays on 34 weeks. At the time, the FC Schalke 04 has been named as a potential participant in the Superliga.
Gianni Infantino and the Financial Fair Play rulesThe mirror also reported on misconduct by the President of the world football governing body Fifa, Gianni Infantino. This promotes "a friendly attorney that could potentially investigate him". He influenced the Statute of the ethics Commission of the Fifa in his favor, and pressure on those who exercised it, to control him. For the Fifa-project Trophy Infantino've spent a disproportionate amount of money. He has ensured that money against the Fifa rules, the early associations was paid.
in Addition, Infantino had already broken in his time as General Secretary of Uefa rules. Although the clubs Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain over the years, against the Financial Fair-Play would break the rules, he did not punish the Clubs and the Uefa control your "systematically" betrayed.
The reporting by the mirror is the result of research by the unveiling platform Football Leaks, the existence of the magazine and its partners of the research network European Investigative Collaborations.
