LONDON, United
Kingdom — US investment bank
JPMorgan on Monday confirmed it is financing the
breakaway Super League featuring 12 of Europe’s top football clubs, which
threatens to shake-up the world’s biggest sport.
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“I can confirm
that we are financing the deal, but have no further comment at the moment,” a
bank spokesman said in a statement to AFP.
Each of the
clubs from England, Italy and Spain will receive a one-off payment of 3.5
billion euros ($4.2 billion).
Six Premier
League teams — Liverpool, Manchester United,
Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City
and Tottenham — are involved, alongside Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico
Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan.
The clubs were
immediately accused of greed and cynicism and threatened with international
exile.
Organizers said
in a statement that three more founding members would be announced, with a
further five places up for grabs through a qualifying system each year and the
inaugural edition to start as “soon as practicable”.
The Super
League announcement appeared to be timed to pre-empt UEFA’s own scheduled
unveiling of reforms to the Champions League on Monday, with an expansion to 36
teams from 32 and two ‘wildcard’ slots expected to be among the plans. There
would be a minimum of 10 games for each team.
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