Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona slam UEFA threats over Super League exit
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Explaining UEFA s push to punish the 12 Super League clubs (1:28)
Gab Marcotti explains UEFA s ongoing attempts to punish the 12 clubs who attempted to form the Super League. (1:28)
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus, the three clubs still involved in the proposed European Super League, denounced on Saturday the intolerable pressure put on them by UEFA to drop the project.
UEFA said on Friday that the three clubs will face sanctions, and European soccer s ruling body has started disciplinary proceedings against them. Multiple sources told ESPN earlier this week that a maximum punishment under the organisation s disciplinary pathway would be a two-year ban from the Champions League or Europa League.
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Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus have stood firm over their Super League plans (Nick Potts/PA)
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Nine of the original 12 clubs who publicly signed up to the aborted European Super League have publicly committed to existing structure and agreed to significant financial sanctions in a bid to draw a line under the incident.
But what is behind their collective move, and what happens to the three clubs who are refusing to renounce the quickly-aborted format?
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Super League: Barcelona, Juventus, Madrid react to UEFA sanction
Segun Adewole
Published 8 May 2021
Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid have reacted to the sanction by UEFA for their involvement in the aborted Super League.
UEFA yesterday announced that nine of the 12 Super League clubs had agreed to a “Club Commitment Declaration” and accepted a five per cent cut in their European revenue for one season.
The European football governing body added that Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid will be “promptly referred” to disciplinary bodies.
In response, the three clubs issued a joint statement saying, “The founding clubs have suffered, and continue to suffer, unacceptable third-party pressures, threats, and offenses to abandon the project and therefore desist from their right and duty to provide solutions to the football ecosystem via concrete proposals and constructive dialogue. This is intolerable under the rule of law and Tribunals have already ruled in favour of th