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.
"Look, first they launched this nonsense of an idea in the middle of a pandemic. Now we are reading articles every day they are planning to launch another idea in the middle of war. They obviously live in a parallel world.
"While we are saving players, together with other stakeholders, and work to help in a terrible situation, they work on a project like that.
"Honestly they can pay whoever they want to write, ‘This is a nice project, full of solidarity and will give charity to small ones’, this is complete nonsense and everyone except them knows it.
"One of them even after called me and apologised and then they go again. Now for them fans are customers, for us fans are fans. For us football is about football players and about fans. All the rest is a supporting team."
