Florentino Perez makes two alarming Super League threats as dust refuses to settle

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Florentino Perez, the president of the farcical Super League, is not giving up on his dream yet.

The Spaniard has claimed that the ESL is still legally binding and that until clubs pay their penalisation fees, they’re still involved.

What’s more, he said if the ESL doesn’t go ahead, another version will rear its head – and that no big transfers will happen this summer without it.

“If you think the Super League is dead, I can say you’re absolutely wrong,” he told El Larguero.

“If this project didn’t work, another one will. Remember: all the 12 clubs have signed a biding contract”.

“Nobody has yet paid the penalisation fee for leaving the SuperLeague. We are almost all still in this, they have not officially left yet…

“It’s impossible to make signings like Mbappé and Haaland – in general, not for Real Madrid – without the Super League.”

Perez is living in some kind of fantasy land in which he thinks the entire football world simply wants to see Mbappe at Real Madrid on €1m/week…

Isn’t the game, which has run for 150+ years, quite a lot more than that?

He is blind to a possibility that a fairer system can be developed based on merit – with salary caps and other rules which enable teams to compete on a level playing field – with the ability to reach the top table via performance.

The Super League was a closed shop. Where was the fun in that?

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  1. Sport isn’t about “fairness” it is about winning and entertaining. I am very suspect of this whole situation, and can see it being used as a means to pass a whole lot more unwanted and unneeded “legislations” and “regulations” that look like they address real problems but only end up eventually serving the elite. A Salary Cap is a fine example and would benefit Real Madrid much more than Sheffield United. Players want to join Real Madrid, so given the choice of the same fixed money, players will choose clubs with better the better chance of winning things and entering into the pantheon of football. Real Madrid then get a player well below their true market value. The money that is flooding into football is from sponsors and advertisers – NOT ONE SINGLE FAN gives a damn about these businesses, but these businesses are desperate for the exposure and kudos football can bring them. People watch football for the skill of the players and the love and hatred of the teams on the field. A salary cap will not stop the flood of money, it just diverts it to those who do not deserve it – the owners and shareholders – with idiots like John Henry and Stan Kroenke pocketing the money.

    This is what I expect to see next – a whole bunch of regulatory and government interference masquerading as bringing “fairness” when all it does is divert money into the pockets of those who control the game.

    Barcelona and Real Madrid are at the forefront of this Super League because the others pushed them there and they are the most desperate and so are willing to take the flack, but if all we see is new regulations coming in over the next while, then this was all a clever ruse and the fans will have been conned again. These are cunning and powerful men, and even if heads roll in public, in private the deals will still be done and the power of the owners of these clubs will continue to grow. Football is THE ONLY global phenomenon out there, nothing else compares to it, and that is why they control it and are abusing the fans.

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