Barça's reaction to the Super League ruling: "We invite the parties to start a dialogue"

FC Barcelona, ​​which together with Real Madrid has led the Super League ship, also hoped that the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union would be favorable to its creation.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
20 December 2023 Wednesday 15:34
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Barça's reaction to the Super League ruling: "We invite the parties to start a dialogue"

FC Barcelona, ​​which together with Real Madrid has led the Super League ship, also hoped that the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union would be favorable to its creation. Barcelona president Joan Laporta has always been in favor of agreeing with UEFA to launch the Super League in two years and mediating its creation with the League, and he stated this in an institutional statement that reinforced the entity's statement. Barcelona fan.

The Barcelona club celebrated the final ruling from which there is no appeal and pointed out that the Super League will provide "solutions to the overload of the calendar and the excess of national team matches" but also "to progress in regulation regarding financial fair play." . Therefore, the entity's intention is to open conversations with the League and the rest of European organizations. "I want to make it very clear that Barça's position is not at all against the Spanish League or the national ones. With better European competition and more resources for the clubs, the European leagues will be more balanced and competitive," Laporta warned, openly. to dialogue with all organizations. This is not the case with Florentino Pérez, who is in favor of starting the competition without having the approval of UEFA or negotiating with LaLiga.

Laporta also reported, referring to state clubs, that "the current structure of European football, in our opinion, benefits clubs that have unlimited financial resources, and in certain cases, even outside the world of football itself." The Super League, which aims to include Premier League clubs, would mean an economic injection of 1,000 million euros.

For all these reasons, the year in which Barcelona will celebrate its 125th anniversary, the club stated that "it wants to continue contributing its experience and sports knowledge to propose solutions and encourages starting a constructive debate between all football organizations, both domestically and internationally. ". The club also warns that "everything is subject to a complete reading of the sentence."