Switzerland —
UEFA examined its "options" on Friday on how to deal with the 12
clubs involved in the failed Super League, designed to supplant the Champions
League, without announcing any sanctions.
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"The UEFA executive committee has been informed of the latest
developments in relation to the 'Super League', in particular regarding the
options available to UEFA and the measures it plans to take," said
European football's governing body in a press release which gave no further details.
In the space of 48 hours this week beginning on Sunday evening, UEFA, aided
by fans and politicians, quelled a mutiny by the English, Spanish and Italian
clubs who presumed to form their own quasi-closed tournament.
Nine clubs, including all six in England, subsequently withdrew and even if
Juventus, Barcelona and Real Madrid, whose president Florentino Perez led the
attempted secession, are still refusing formally to capitulate, their proposal
no longer looks credible.
US investment bank JPMorgan, which agreed to financially back the breakaway
Super League, said Friday it had "clearly misjudged" the failed
project's impact.
Among the many punishments being considered by UEFA would have been the
possible exclusion of Manchester City, Chelsea and Real Madrid, all of whom
signed up for the Super League, from the Champions League semi-finals which
begin next week.
Such a drastic measure appeared to have been ruled out by UEFA president
Aleksander Ceferin who told Slovenian television Pop T on Wednesday:
"There is relatively little chance that next week's matches will not be
played... If we cancelled the matches, television stations would have
compensation demands."
It remains to be seen what the "consequences" promised Wednesday
by Ceferin to the dissident clubs and their leaders will look like, the UEFA
boss not having specified whether they would be judicial, disciplinary or
sporting.
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