UEFA president slams Super League rebels for resurrecting ‘nonsense’ idea ‘in the middle of a war’

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has accused club owners still plotting to organise a European Super League as “living in a parallel world”.

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus have been condemned by Ceferin for trying to resurrect the Super League “in the middle of war”.

Ceferin was scathing about the rebel clubs, who he accused of having deliberately “launched their nonsense of an idea in the middle of a pandemic.”

Speaking via video link at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit in London, where Juventus president Andrea Agnelli was expected to lay out new plans for a breakaway, Ceferin said: "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.

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