“They won’t be banned if they join Super League”- Real Madrid chief Perez laughs off UEFA’s threats to ban players

“They won’t be banned if they join Super League”- Real Madrid chief Perez laughs off UEFA’s threats to ban players

Florentino Perez backs his project European Super League after it came into severe criticism from the UEFA officials

Real Madrid are all set to play in the newly proposed European Super League and are one of the 12 founding members of the project. Florentino Perez is the mastermind behind the formation of the controversial league which would run parallel to the UEFA Champions League.

The Los Blancos boss has now come out and cleared a number of doubts regarding the newly proposed league after it got a number of negative comments since its inception. UEFA on their part, have threatened that players who would play in the Super League would be banned from all UEFA and FIFA competitions including the Euros and the World Cup.

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However, the Real Madrid president does not want to dwell on false threats and assured players that nothing of the sort would happen eventually.

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Perez spoke about Ceferin’s threats in an interview with El Chiringuito on Monday, saying: “Every player can be calm because that’s not going to happen. They won’t be banned if they join the Super League.”

There have been suggestions from the UEFA that 3 of the 4 semi-finalists of this season’s Champions League – Manchester City, Madrid and Chelsea will be kicked out of the tournament effective immediately.

The newly elected Madrid president has dismissed those threats too –  “Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea will not be banned from the Champions League or domestic leagues. Impossible, I can assure you of that. 100 per cent, it won’t happen, the law protects us. This is impossible.”

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The original interview with El Chiringuito TV

Aleksander Ceferin, the European body’s President had earlier launched an attack on Manchester United’s Ed Woodward and Juventus’ Andrea Agnelli because of their allegiances with the Super League. Perez stood in support of his fellow clubs’ presidents and claimed more transparency on the European authorities’ part.

Perez argued – “Why aren’t UEFA and La Liga salaries public? Why haven’t salaries been reduced like everyone else during the pandemic? We need more transparency. We know the salary of LeBron James but we don’t know the salary of the UEFA president.”

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