La Liga hits out at 'selfish' European Super League

La Liga released a corporate video on social media on Tuesday in which it states that the European Super League project is "an engine of uncertainty". La Liga points out that its implementation would mean a "drop in revenue for the leagues" and the "destruction of domestic competitions and thousands of jobs" and says it is a "project at a loss to drive out current stakeholders".

"Not to mention the teams that would lose direct access to European competitions, thus ending the dream of most clubs, players and fans, and destroying the domestic leagues, which are the fundamental pillar of the European football ecosystem and the main source of financial stability for clubs," he said.

The video claims that the European Super League "tries to deceive by appealing to a supposed economic certainty derived from its format, implicitly acknowledging that its model is closed".

"But the reality," La Liga adds, "is that this format would perpetuate a few rich clubs from big cities and few countries. What these clubs would gain in Europe, they would lose from what they earn in the domestic leagues, thus creating a clear financial uncertainty that will be even greater for the Blue division clubs".

 

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La Liga claims that the domestic leagues "would lose at least 69% of their audiovisual revenues, as well as commercial and match day revenues" and that the European Super League "would destroy this entire ecosystem that directly employs 68,000 footballers, more than 3,000 coaches and 75,000 club workers".

It adds that it is "a selfish competition" that "attacks head-on the principle of solidarity of the European sport model, which does not consist of giving money as charity to the rest, but of not creating competitions that mean the financial ruin of the domestic leagues and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs".

The promoters of the Super League and the clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona are at loggerheads with UEFA, which they accuse of abuse of dominant position for preventing its implementation, contrary to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).