PARIS: The European Super League crumbled on Wednesday with 10 of the 12 founding clubs turning their backs on the three-day old project despite mastermind Florentino Perez insisting the widely-condemned breakaway tournament was not dead, but merely “on stand-by”.
Perez shrugged off the withdrawals of the six English clubs as well as Inter and AC Milan, and Atletico Madrid.
Juventus said the project was unworkable.
“The project is on stand-by. The project exists, but half of them have left, tired of what they have heard over 24 hours, saying they don’t want to continue,” Real Madrid president Perez told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser.
When asked if it was wrong to think the breakaway competition was now dead, he added: “Absolutely”.
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