Manchester United and Liverpool helped spearhead Super League proposals, suggests UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has revealed he “lost it a bit” with an unnamed English club in a conversation about the controversial European Super League proposals in 2021. Ceferin also suggested that Manchester United and Liverpool were the Premier League clubs spearheading the ill-fated plans. Ad Next month will mark two years since 12 of Europe’s biggest clubs made a joint announcement that they would be forming a breakaway Super League, prompting a furious backlash across the continent.

Europa LeagueHow to watch Arsenal v Sporting CP in the Europa League10 HOURS AGO Just days later the six Premier League clubs involved – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham – confirmed they were withdrawing. Ceferin revealed that Chelsea and Man City were both reluctant to break away from UEFA and sign up to the Super League «from the beginning». Eventually, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Atletico Madrid also dropped out, leaving Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus red-faced.

Speaking to Gary Neville's The Overlap, Ceferin said: «As much as I know, unfortunately your [Neville's] club's [United's] owners were very much involved and Liverpool as well. »I think that those two were from the English side the most involved [in the Super League]. The last to join were Chelsea and Manchester City.

I'm not sure about Tottenham and Arsenal. 'He's got every defender on the ropes' — Rio Ferdinand full of praise for Erling Haaland Pep Guardiola says Champions League win will not make up for perceived Julia Roberts snub «When I arrived in Switzerland, I got a phone call from one of the English clubs saying that we'll have to join this project. They didn't like it but didn't want to be the only ones out.