Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin ‘sick and tired’ of speaking about European Super League

Aleksander Ceferin has criticised the morals of those still attempting to organise a European Super League and told the clubs involved they are free to take part in the breakaway league but only if they leave Uefa competitions.

The president of European football’s governing body was speaking at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit where the Super League topic was raised.

Six Premier League sides were founder members of the breakaway competition which launched last April but collapsed within 72 hours amid fan outrage and opposition from Fifa, Uefa and leagues around the world.

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus remain on board with the concept and only on Wednesday, Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville suggested it could make a comeback.

But Ceferin said from Uefa’s headquarters in Switzerland: “I have to say speaking about Super League is not speaking about football, but let’s speak about it anyway. In a way I am sick and tired of speaking of this non-football project.

“Look, first they launched this nonsense of an idea in the middle of a pandemic. Now we are reading articles every day they are planning to launch another idea in the middle of war. They obviously live in a parallel world.

“While we are saving players, together with other stakeholders, and work to help in a terrible situation, they work on a project like that.

“Honestly they can pay whoever they want to write ‘this is a nice project, full of solidarity and will give charity to small ones’, this is complete nonsense and everyone except them knows it.

“One of them even after called me and apologised and then they go again. Now for them fans are customers, for us fans are fans. For us football is about football players and about fans. All the rest is a