Valdano believes that after a failed project, there should be a debate about the future of football and discussed the effect that the Super League will have on the team and players.
It was a super project
Former Real Madrid CEO Jorge Valdano assessed the failure of the Super League and criticized Los Blancos president Florentino Perez for the way he dealt with it. Valdano believes that after a failed project, there should be a debate about the future of football and discussed the effect that the Super League will have on the team and players. “The players are not affected by what happens in the offices because one witnessed the separation of teams in real-time, and it did not surprise me that much,” he told reporters. “It was a super project with very shaky foundations, and it was bound to fall apart.”
The English fans won the war
Valdano also stressed the importance of fans in this situation. “It was clear that the document they signed had very little legal value. The English fans won the war because here in Spain no one raised a finger, you cannot revolutionize a product as popular as football without knowing the product’s customers deeply”. Jorge Valdano also spoke about the statements of Florentino Perez. “You cannot go on ‘El Chiringuito’ and explain the general lines of the law, present yourself as the saviour of football, without explaining in detail what you want to do through credible people who can have a level of trust in the project. “Football itself, which is very powerful, has been underestimated; it has four billion fans to keep happy. Agnelli represented 200 teams, and he betrayed them; some directors have lost a lot of credibility.”
Valdano also highlighted financial concerns regarding the Super League. “People don’t get to look at the accounts, I discussed with Gerard Pique, who knows a lot of information. But the 12 teams scores in the Super League weren’t one of them. I don’t know how much real money or credits there was or whether it was biased. The truth is that the megaproject collapsed.”