Uefa reports €74 million deficit for covid-hit 2019-20 financial year
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.
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UEFA elections: Martin takes seat at FIFA’s top table, Christillin keeps hers
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.
Perez ‘football is dying’ interview debunked as lies by LaLiga
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.
Ceferin praises UEFA’s covid solidarity, declares war on ‘conspirators’ and thanks Tottenham Trev
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.
Infantino warns Super League clubs they will have to ‘live with the consequences’
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.”
Real Madrid’s Perez claims Super League will save football and fans want it
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.
Politicians, fans, clubs and leagues launch tsunami of Super League criticism
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.
Rummenige returns to lead ECA after Agnelli’s spectacular exit
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.
UEFA pushes ahead with Champions League revamp
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.
PSV Eindhoven look for €50m to keep long term pressure on Ajax
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.
UEFA pushes back Euros hosting deadlines for Munich, Bilbao and Dublin
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.
Ceferin fury at betrayal of Super League ‘Dirty Dozen’ and promises players will be banned
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.
Leagues in crisis as breakaway ‘Super League’ clubs told they will be banned
By Andrew Warshaw
April 19 – After months of secret behind the scenes negotiations by the Continent’s elite clubs, European football has been plunged into unprecedented crisis and division with the announcement of a much-dreaded but long-touted breakaway Super League, prompting a fierce backlash from UEFA, individual leagues and even the British government.
Super League clubs line up for £3.5bn payout with promise of £10bn for rest of football
By Paul Nicholson
April 19 – The breakaway Super League broke official cover last night – just after midnight central European time – with a statement confirming the 12 ‘Founding Clubs’ and a €3.5 billion share-out for joining the new set-up.
Agnelli: Would you buy a used car off this man?
By Andrew Warshaw
April 19 – One notable figure was conspicuous by his absence at today’s all-important UEFA executive committee. The man who, it is alleged, stabbed European football’s governing body in the back after what is being described as the night that changed the sport for ever.