Barcelona will release a statement on Saturday about the measures that UEFA has announced against the club, it reports Mundo Deportivo. The Catalans are diametrically opposed to the European Football Association when it comes to the Super League. Nine clubs officially left the elite competition on Friday, but Barcelona is still in favor, together with Real Madrid and Juventus.
The Super League has been definitively dismantled due to the agreement of the other nine clubs with UEFA. Barcelona will indicate in its statement, among other things, that the position of UEFA in the negotiations is ‘unacceptable’. The club is offended by the European Football Association and demands ‘respect’. Barcelona already stated in a statement at the end of April that ‘structural reforms, aimed at financial sustainability, are certainly necessary at this time’ and that the Super League is justified.
The New York Times reports Friday evening that Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus are investigating what legal action is possible against the other nine founders of the Super League. The three clubs rely on the contract that has been signed, which their former partners cannot simply escape. Barça, Real and Juve sent a letter to their former partners on Thursday threatening damages of millions of euros.
The three superpowers are playing high game, because UEFA is now threatening with severe sanctions. “These clubs will have to deal with UEFA later,” said Aleksander Ceferin, the president of the union, on Friday. Through ESPN There was speculation about a two-year lockout for European football. According to COPE is that sanction indeed on the table, but UEFA still hopes to come out with the clubs and the penalty was therefore not announced on Friday. Ceferin still wants to do that if no agreement has been reached after the Champions League final on May 29.
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