Super League

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Perez gestern ausführlich im Interview

"The major clubs of England, Spain and Italy have to give a solution to the bad situation that football is experiencing"

"More competitive games will make everyone earn more money."

"We came to the conclusion that by doing the Super League instead of the CL we could help the lost income."

"The Super League will save clubs financially."

"Here at Real Madrid we lost a lot of money and we're in a very bad situation. Top clubs in Spain and England are coming to conclusions about fixing football. Madrid alone lost €400m and nothing was being done about that."

"UEFA threats? Football needs to evolve, audiences are going down."

"Football was losing interest from fans, we need a change."

"16-24 year old fans of that age don't have interest in football. Football needs to adapt to the new generations, now."

"All I do is for the good of football."

"The Super League will generate more money. It’s more attractive. Manchester-Barca will be more attractive than Manchester vs a smaller team."

"Teams can come in to the Super League, we never thought of that it's not a closed league, and we always thought about sporting merit. Sevilla can perfectly join the Super League the same way they can go to the CL in their league position."

"We have 15 teams + another 5 teams. Those 5 teams will earn their place every season."

"If you win, you receive €120-130m from UEFA but with Super League we will earn much more."

"The new Champions League format will not save football. I don't understand it, it won't help anything."

"I came in 2000 to save Real Madrid from financial ruin and I did. I saved the club."

"UEFA is a monopoly, what we're trying to do is save football. They must be transparent, and UEFA never has had a good history."

"I don't know why UEFA has been threatening since our press release says we would work out with them and FIFA."

"The players can stay totally calm about their national teams. The ban can't happen."

"How can La Liga lose prestige? It won't lose value with the Super League. Those two competitions can coexist."

"Champions League is attractive only from the quarterfinals. Nobody cares about the games before."

"We haven't invited PSG, and didn't talk to any German club yet."

"If PSG and Bayern Munich refuse, the Super League competition will not be canceled. This is an erroneous claim."

"The 15 founding clubs are the ones that matter the most in terms of entertainment. Others likes of Napoli and Roma will have a chance to be in the competition one year or another, then we'll see."

"Ceferin insulted Agnelli and that is totally unacceptable. We don’t want a president who insults another president."

"Everyone says that the Super League is the rich club's league, when that's not true, it's the league to save football."

"Boris Johnson said he will do everything to cancel the Super League? Someone must have told to him that the Premier League would disappear: it's false, it's not true. Everything will go back to normal."

"If we continue with the CL, interest will decrease further and even more with the new format."

"We don't want the rich teams to be richer and poor teams to be poorer. Football is a unity. Right now it's at a freefall."

"VAR? You mean Tebas' VAR or normal VAR? (laughs) There will be VAR, and a financial fair-play in this league."

"I didn't have to convince Laporta to join, this Super League will help Barcelona and football. They are in a bad moment"

"We have been working on this project for a long time."

"All the clubs signed for the Super League on Saturday, not yesterday. The contract is binding, nobody will leave."

"I would totally give up my spot as chairman to Laporta if I had to"

"We'll only select the best referees, under a professional criteria."

"Clubs are losing too much money. Big clubs and small clubs. TV rights have changed. We only earn 20% from TV rights."

"I'm a believer in transparency, I'm fully aware on how much LeBron James makes, but I don't know how much the UEFA president makes. Why?"

"We had to lower our salaries. I have a feeling that UEFA did not."

"There will be a salary cap at 55%."

"We haven't talked to Tebas recently. We'll talk to UEFA and FIFA."

"To make it simple, we want to make it the same as how basketball is. (an independent European league, like the EuroLeague)."

"If they want to wait for 2024 to make the reform, they can wait. We're not waiting for anyone."

"Football is in danger, and I'm working with the other teams to save football."

"This isn't a battle for money, this is a battle for football. We're trying to save football, and some people don't care because it's not in their financial interest."

"If UEFA don’t want to come to an agreement, we won’t back down. Because we need the Super League.”

"There are some  matches I can't stand to watch."

"The big clubs will share the money, like a pyramid."