Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus on one side, the rest of football Europe on the other. The English backed down after the pressure from the fans, but initially were all in. The Italians would certainly go after the money, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Belgians too, but UEFA has two strong collaborators against the European Super League – Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain. Although the support of this second club, as shown by today’s articles from L’Equipe and France Football, was not the most sincere from the start. It was revealed that PSG, in cooperation with Juventus, was the first club which planned to establish a competition that would rival the UEFA Champions League, and would probably ruined the national championships along the way.The Super league proposal: 64 clubs in Stars, Golden and Blue leaguesThe leaders of the two clubs, Nasser al-Khelaifi and Andrea Agnelli, met during the corona virus pandemic in then-empty Paris. With the assistance of consulting firms, they compiled a 30-page document. Code name of the project: “Bohr”. Bohr, like the surname of Niels Bohr, a 20th century Danish physicist who carried out work on the atomic bomb. It was actually Agnelli who mentioned this first in an interview with the Financial Times last January.“I remember flying to Paris in the middle of Covid. There was no one around. Paris was deserted. Nasser (al-Khelaïfi) and I had conversations about a new competition, where he said we needed changes, because if we didn’t react, we were dead“ he said back then.Arsenal must oppose Super League for fans, claims ArtetaSo, the plan was to establish a league for 24 clubs that would compete in six groups. Everyone would play a minimum of 32 games per season, for a total of 413 matches. On page 10, it is also written that due to such a large number of games, the clubs would be stimulated to leave the domestic championships. However, L’Equipe points out that it was abandoned, because Al Khelaifi and Agnelli were aware that they would face harsh condemnations. They came up with another plan, that the biggest clubs in Europe’s domestic championships play with reserve or elite B teams. They would certainly have the money to finance them if something like the Superliga was founded.Buffon still cannot understand why PSG hasn’t won the Champions LeagueHowever, all those talks were conducted while Al Khelaifi and Agnelli were friends, and they haven’t been since the first operative of Paris Saint-Germain changed sides and moved to Alexander Ceferin’s team, for which he was also awarded the position of president of the European Club Association (ECA). He replaced Agnelli in that position, who proudly lost his leadership position at Juventus. The “Bohr” project died like that. Now Real, Barca and Juve are leading a new project in cooperation with the company A22. PSG and Bayern are the loudest opponents of that idea.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE1/8 finalsTuesdayCopenhagen – Man.City 1-3 (1-2)/Mattsson 34 – De Bruyne 10, Silva 45+1, Foden 90+3/RB Leipzig – Real Madrid 0-1 (0-0)/Diaz 49/WednesdayPSG – Sociedad 2-0 (0-0)/Mbappe 58, Barcola 71/Lazio – Bayern 1-0 (0-0)/Immobile 69 pen/Tuesday the 20th23:00: (2.00) Inter (3.40) Atl.Madrid (3.90)23:00: (2.15) PSV (3.45) Dortmund (3.35)Wednesday the 21st23:00: (4.10) Porto (3.50) Arsenal (1.90)23:00: (2.70) Napoli (3.35) Barcelona (2.60)***odds are subject to change***
