He “flashed and thundered” against her European Super League The Karl Heinz Rummeninge!
Through his statements, the legend and former president of Bayern Munich once again reiterated his opposition to its project ESLstressing that this is a league in which you will participate because you are rich, while adding that such efforts contribute to losing the roots of football.
In detail what he said:
“The defeat of the European Super League lies in the facts, in the refusal of Europe in the project. The only thing missing is legal confirmation. I was worried the night they announced the European Super League. It was midnight, they had tried in vain to convince us and others, they were on the verge of breaking up. I thought, “What if they actually make the revolution? It would be a mess.” In two days the bubble burst. I was on the pitch for Bayern and Aleksandar Ceferin (current UEFA president) was texting me every five minutes to say: Chelsea, Liverpool, City have withdrawn… It’s over.
The word Super says it all. She wants to be superior to everything. From the league, the Champions League, football. As for Bayern, they didn’t come to me at the time, but tried Oliver Kahn, my designated successor. Me, Uli Hennes and the president Heiner said: “Never with us! We want to win, but with rules. Paris Saint-Germain thought so too.
Plan A, with Europe’s top teams, was just an alibi. Their goal is to include Arabs, Americans and organize an international tournament. The roots are lost. Initiatives of this type have all been rejected culturally, footballingly and financially. UEFA offers the best possible tournament, the new 36-team Champions League will be even more spectacular and open.
Did you see the Copenhagen celebrations for qualification to the last 16? He was to finish last, he qualified and for them it looked like Christmas. Always win themselves? No, in football there is the unthinkable, the emotion. Not the math. Nobody in Germany would go to the European Super League, there would be a fan revolution. For us, value makes sense. If you are good, you win. There you buy your place in the League because you are rich and you win even if you don’t win.
It’s not for us. I’m old and I’ve seen a lot. Image, money and solidarity have never been better. Perfect balance. Once the profits have to be shared, everyone would like more, it’s true, but in the end we come to an agreement. Change for change’s sake would make no sense. Football must be protected and politics must help. Another model would only cause damage. Football is a central phenomenon of social life.
Millions of people go to the stadium on the weekend. But now politics must also understand something else that the American owner of Liverpool asked me: “Why in America I invest and win and here every year I win and expenses increase?”. Here’s the problem. You win, you collect, but wages and transfers go up. I went to Brussels to ask for interventions and they always told me that the market should be free”.
Source: Sport Fm
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