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To the ones of the "big six" English did not like them that the Athletic was in the Superleague

Published:27/04/2021 - 02:43h

Updated:27/04/2021 - 09:27h

The English teams saw with discomfort that the Athletic of Madrid was part of the 12 members founders of the almost extinct project of the Superliga European

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Afterwards that they passed 48 hours of the announcement of his creation, the Superliga founded by twelve of the main clubs of all Europe dispelled after the renunciation of the members of the "big six" English, the three Italians and the one of the Athletic of Madrid.

In the case of the team colchonero was a stay that caused that several members of the club put in his against, especially a good number of fans. The truth is that the adventure rojiblanca in the project was short, but convulsa.

In the first place, MundoDeportivo already had given to know that some of the investors of the project did not see with good eyes the presence of the combined rojiblanco in the same. They preferred another team, as for example the Seville, to account of the reports that handled with regard to the capacity of growth of said club in the average and long term.

Recently, of agreement to informations revealed Chain Be, has known that, in addition to the investors, the English clubs that went to participate in this tournament showed his doubts with regard to the presence of the team rojiblanco in the same. According to the quoted half, the teams of the Premier League would not have liked them that the Athletic of Madrid appeared between the clubs founders of the Superliga.

The known as 'Big Six' (Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham), would have left to glimpse his unrest by the presence of the colchoneros. The reason that alleged for this, went "his scarce world-wide tug in social networks and his low television audiences out of Spain".

The veracity of the complaints

However, there is something of true in the interests that the English had with regard to the Athletic of Madrid, since, of all the 12 members, is the one who worse data has in both cases, by what one of the teams that more advantage would take out of the Superliga would be the Athletic of Madrid. In spite of his discomfort with the Athletic, the enormous rejection that generated the project was what finished motivating to the six English teams those who 48 hours after the announcement withdrew of the competition.

Nevertheless, in any moment had a 'no' definite to the team colchonero, but yes that the English teams showed his doubts on his presence. With everything, the situation did not become so decisive as so that the rest of the members had to go out in defence of the Athletic of Madrid.

Florentino defends the project

In spite of the sea of criticisms, the managerial maximum of the Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, argued that tergiversó totally the aim of the project of the Superliga. "It is that they are not truth neither a thing neither the another, but has manipulated everything. Neither it is a plan excluyente neither goes against the leagues. The project Superliga is the best possible, and has done to help to the football to go out of the crisis. The football is gravely injured because his economy sinks and it is necessary to adapt to the period that live", ensured Florentino in an interview given daily ACE the past Friday.

And it added: "The Superliga does not go against the domestic championships and has like aim that flow more money for all the football. It has thought to give him more interest to the parties. And I think that the new reform of the UEFA neither gives solution to the problem because what has presented not even is better of what there is. And besides we can not expect until the 2024".

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