Rebel golf equipment should reject Super League to keep away from UEFA ban: Aleksander Ceferin

The Spanish and Italian golf equipment nonetheless clinging to the Super League should disavow the breakaway or face being banned from the Champions League, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin instructed The Associated Press on Friday.
Although the Super League imploded this week after being quickly deserted by most individuals, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and AC Milan haven’t left the mission and officers may “suffer some consequences,” Ceferin stated.
“It’s crystal clear that the clubs will have to decide if they are Super League or they are a European club,” Ceferin stated in a phone interview with the AP. “If they say we are a Super League, then they don’t play Champions League, of course … and if they are ready to do that, they can play in their own competition.”
It took UEFA solely 48 hours to see off the specter of a gaggle of 12 golf equipment forming a Super League with largely closed entry, splitting from the Champions League the place qualification is decided yearly from home competitions.
But Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez, who was to chair the Super League, continues to defy Ceferin by pledging to maintain engaged on reviving the Super League. While Madrid’s place within the Champions League semifinals subsequent week just isn’t in danger, participation sooner or later can be until the ultimatum is dropped.
The Super League launch turned unviable when it was abandoned on Tuesday night time by the six English golf equipment — Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham — adopted by Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan quitting the next day.
UEFA is assessing sanctions for officers from the golf equipment concerned within the revolt that threatened to tear European soccer aside after being launched on Sunday night time simply as Ceferin was making ready to formally unveil a brand new format for the Champions League the next day.
“We still are waiting for legal expertise and then we will say, but everybody faces consequences for their decisions and they know that,” Ceferin stated. “For me, it’s a very different situation between the clubs that admitted their mistake and said, ‘We will leave the project.’ The others mainly know I would say that this project is dead, but they don’t want to believe it, probably.”
Ceferin led a digital assembly of UEFA’s high decision-making physique on Friday when the prospect of punishing the membership officers who misled them was mentioned.
“We agreed today at the executive committee to connect with the football federations, the national associations and leagues that are concerned,” Ceferin stated. “We will do that next week and we’ll see. It would be good that we can see what specific leagues can do, and what the federations can do, and what UEFA can do.”