Organizers of the Super League project presented a long-promised new proposal Thursday for a multi-division competition involving up to 80 European soccer teams and operating outside of UEFA's authority.
Setting out 10 principles for the project, Spain-based A22 Sports Management said it had talked to "nearly 50 European clubs" about the revived proposal two years after the original idea collapsed. It is unclear if any clubs have supported the privately owned commercial project that would compete directly with the Champions League.
"Participation should be based on annual sporting merit and there should be no permanent members," A22 said. Barcelona president Joan Laporta said Thursday that the Super League was "progressing" while urging for more negotiations between its promoters and existing soccer authorities. The gap between England and the rest -- typified by the Premier League's domination of the January transfer window and record losses posted last year by Barcelona and Juventus -- could persuade team officials across Europe to find alternative ways to compete.
"Participating clubs should remain fully committed to domestic tournaments, as they do today," A22 said. The ECA on Thursday dismissed the latest announcement as "just another deliberately distorted and misleading attempt to destabilize the constructive work currently taking place between football's real stakeholders."
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