Tomorrow, the Court of the European Union is due to issue a final verdict on the project of the European Super League and its lawsuit against UEFA, which it claims has a monopoly on football on the continent. However, if the EU sides with the Super League, nothing will change in the world of football, because that project, which at one point was supported by 12 big clubs of the continent, is dead. The legendary German ace Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, at one time Bayern’s first operative and one of the most influential people in European football, is convinced of this.The Court of Justice of the European Union will live stream the European Super League ruling on December 21. A22 Sports Management, promoters of the European Super League, are hoping FIFA/UEFA’s ‘monopoly’ over European club competitions is deemed anti-competitive giving them a… pic.twitter.com/8F4o0wLbvj— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) December 19, 2023 Speaking to ‘Gazzetta dello Sport’, the Bayern’s legend explained his stance.”The Super League has lost and it is time for it to admit it; football belongs to everyone, not just the rich. Since that afternoon, Agnelli disconnected the phone and lost everything, including the image of him. I played football and I know that when you lose you have to admit it and that’s it. It is in the facts, in Europe’s rejection of the project. All that is missing is legal confirmation. “Am I worried? Not anymore. In two days the bubble burst. I was at the Bayern stadium and UEFA president Ceferin was sending me text messages every five minutes to tell me: Chelsea, Liverpool, City have withdrawn… It’s over” he said.No. 25 until ’25 for 25 years with Bayern Munich: Thomas Muller extends his contractThe brain behind the idea was certainly Real’s president Florentino Perez, but former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli was promoting the idea and did most of the work to create the league.”I understand that the coronavirus has forced clubs to accelerate, someone wanted fresh money, but all that was not professional. I do not understand it and humanly I feel sorry for him. He was president of the ECA, he was in the UEFA Executive, he was president of Juventus… He lost everything, even his image. I called him around those days and he didn’t answer the phone, he didn’t have the courage to do it” said the German.Mainz denies Borussia again, Dortmund is in serious crisisAsked what he thinks would have happened if the Super League somehow managed to survive, Rummennige had no dilemma:”Serie A would become Serie B and the Bundesliga, the second division. Poor tournaments. And do you know why all this? To harm the Premier League, which simply wins more because it is better. Especially the Spanish: they wanted to damage it and invented this tournament, the only one that would count. Super League’s alibi was to include the best European teams, but its objective is to include Arabs and Americans and organize an international tournament” said Bayern’s board member.
