BARCELONA – Barcelona confirmed this Monday, in a statement, its membership in the European Super League as a founding member.
“FC Barcelona announces that it has reached an agreement with eleven other of the most important football clubs in Europe to form a new competition, the Superliga, which will be governed by its Founding Clubs and which was born with the desire to be the best competition at the club level in the world, “said the club in a statement, in which he took the opportunity to not, in the first person, draw a scenario of confrontation with the official bodies, which have already reacted against its creation, assuring that the clubs ‘founders hope to hold talks soon with UEFA and FIFA in order to seek the best solutions for the Superleague and for the whole of world football’.
Asked by ESPN Esports, sources from the Barça club preferred not to announce the moves that will take place in the future, waiting, first of all, for the UEFA Executive Committee meeting and confident, as expressed in the statement when finding points of agreement between the parties to avoid a split.
From the Camp Nou it was recalled that the new board found a very embryonic outline of what Josep Maria Bartomeu announced in his farewell, when during his resignation speech he proclaimed that his board approved “the requirements to be part of a European Super League, “making it clear that taking part in the competition” will have to be ratified by the next Assembly of delegates “and clarifying that this step” will ensure that the club remains the members “.
During the election campaign, however, Joan Laporta was opposed to the creation of the SuperLiga, expressing his position in an interview with Cadena Cope. “I think the European League is in charge of the football business. It’s just a matter of money … I don’t have in-depth information on how the competition is going to be organized, but I’m more for that, not everything is money , because maybe thinking about making a lot of money is going to charge your business, what is football, what are the essences of football, this beautiful sport that serves to make a community proud of its team, because there are very nice relationships … I think this Super League could be loaded. “
However, the scene has changed at the Camp Nou and Barcelona, which agrees on the need to give both economic and sporting impetus to the maximum continental competition, will have to officially ratify the project together with the remaining eleven clubs, it being understood that he could present this project to the partners for approval … Something that did not happen in the creation of the Euroleague of basketball in the year 2000.