By Paul Nicholson
April 22 – Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros, former European Leagues boss and head of global integrity group SIGA, has said the collapse of the European Super League proposal presents a “unique opportunity to redefine European football” and move away from the days of the ‘gun on the table’ negotiations of Europe’s super wealthy clubs.
By Samindra Kunti
April 21 – More nails were hammered into the coffin of the European Super League breakaway plan this morning (Wednesday) with rebel clubs Inter Milan, AC Milan and Atletico Madrid all officially announcing they are withdrawing in the wake of the departure of England’s Big Six Premier League clubs.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 21 – It took months of secret behind the scenes negotiations to put together but disintegrated just 48 hours after its launch.
By David Owen
April 21 – The European football body UEFA has posted a deficit of €73.9 million for the covid-hit 2019-20 financial year.
April 21- Irish FA president David Martin (pictured) has been elected as a FIFA vice-president after winning the vote for the position reserved for the four British associations.
April 21 – Although the prospect of a breakaway Super League is starting to recede into the distance – for the moment – the wounds are deep and Spain’s LaLiga is not letting some of the statement’s made by Real Madrid’s president Florentino Perez go unanswered.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 20 – Twenty-four hours after lambasting organisers of the European Super League, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin struck a still-forceful but more philosophical tone today as he summed up his annus horribilis marked by the Covid-19 pandemic that sent football behind closed doors and the creation of the breakaway grouping UEFA had tried desperately to stave off.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 20 – Making his first public comment on the creation of the European Super League, FIFA president Gianni Infantino today urged those involved to think again or “live with the consequences.”
By Andrew Warshaw
April 20 – Faced with stinging criticism across the Continent from fans, ex-players, politicians, commentators and all the leading football stakeholders, the man driving the new European Super League has hit back by insisting the project was devised to save the game rather than destroy it.
By Samindra Kunti
April 20 – British PM Boris Johnson and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have led the political clamour against the breakaway Super League by promising their governments will support attempts to halt such a competition as the backlash against the 12 breakaway clubs reached a new crescendo.
April 20 – Bayern Munich’s Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has replaced Andrea Agnelli on an interim basis as the president of the European Club Association (ECA) after the Juventus owner resigned following the announcement of the new Super League plans that included his club but left most other ECA member out in the cold.
April 20 – UEFA’s reformatted Champions League will go ahead as planned starting with the 2024/25 season. With temperatures high over the new Super League breakaway that could begin as early as this August, UEFA made it clear there would be no stopping the new formats for its club competitions after two years of consultation.
April 20 – Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven are looking to raise €50 million in the coming months with billionaire Robert van der Wallen, a member of the supervisory board, driving the capital raise.
April 20 – UEFA have postponed until Friday a final decision over whether they are dropping any host cities for this year’s delayed Euro 2020, with Munich, Bilbao and Dublin still in danger of being axed if they can’t guarantee a limited number of spectators.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 19 – An incensed UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin (pictured) launched a withering attack on the “disgraceful, self-serving” organisers of the new European Super League today, ruling out any possible negotiation, promising that players who take part will be banned and reserving his strongest rebuke for Juventus boss Andrea Agnelli who he accused of repeatedly lying over his true intentions.