patrickblue wrote:Very interesting article from Perez's statement to the Spanish press.
Amongst other things he says
Perez then stated that one of the six English teams helped turn the tide in discussions with their reluctance to fully buy into the proposals.
"There was someone among the six English teams who didn't have much interest in the Super League and that started affecting the others. It's a team that was never convinced,” he explained.
Who could that have been?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/florentino-perez-hints-super-league-23958716
While I don't believe ANYTHING in Mirror I find it possible that there is some truth here. Maybe.
This is pretty easy to narrow down to three teams since Arsenal, rags and Scousepool had people in executive positions in the introduction of the league. Tottenham are badly in debt and financially needed it, regardless of whether they like it or not. So I'd count them out.
That leaves us and Chelsea. Could be either really as we are both financially stable though obviously both clubs are always looking new streams of revenue. I've gotten the impression in the past, little tiny hints, that big London clubs stick together behind the scenes. And Chelsea have just swallowed their pill on their misconduct cases. We on the other hand, we are only few months removed from that letter to UEFA trying to fuck us over. Spaniards have had the go at us any given chance. In fact I saw somewhere that Agnelli's do some business with our owner so it's very possible that we were actually invited by Agnelli's! Furthermore, our people strike as someone who like to be in charge of fortunes. So my guess actually is that it was us.
If my guess is right we were between two old enemies, G14 and UEFA. Probably played with two cards as well. Judging by the statement coming from UEFA praising us when we drew from it and also forced the whole thing to collapse UEFA decided to take the pill and forget the past and sort of invite us to their inner circle or at least closer to it. Sort of enemy of my enemy is my friend situation.