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.
Manchester City, along with Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Tottenham will all be fined
significantly by the Premier League after their attempted break away to a European Super League last month, according to the latest information.
All six clubs from the English top-flight were involved in an attempted breakaway to join six other major European clubs last month to join a US-driven competition which would see all 12 clubs exit from participation in the Champions League or Europa League.
Ultimately, in the case of the six Premier League clubs, no plan came to fruition after a strong backlash from all of football s governing bodies, fans, and even high-ranking politicians such as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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According to a report from ESPN, Liverpool FC, along with the clubs that have pulled out of the planned breakaway Super League, will avoid the maximum punishment under the organisation’s disciplinary pathway, a two-year ban from the Champions League or Europa League.
Over the past 10 days, UEFA have been in conversation with the 12 clubs in an effort to agree a lesser sanction and extract a formal definitive commitment not to pursue the Super League effort. Liverpool, along with Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are understood to have agreed, with Inter Milan were close to an agreement.
Daily Times
May 6, 2021
LONDON: Arsenal’s season appeared to be ending with a whimper when they were reduced to 10 men after falling 2-0 behind against Villarreal in last week’s first leg of their Europa League semi-final. Instead, a precious away goal gave them hope they can finish an inconsistent campaign on a high by setting up a showdown in the Polish city of Gdansk against Manchester United. Arsenal are ninth in the Premier League table and are unlikely to qualify for Europe next year via that route but winning the Europa League would give them a ticket back to the Champions League.