Leagues and clubs are preparing to push back on UEFA’s Champions League reforms in the wake of the European Super League’s collapse. The changes were viewed as compromise measures which would favour the continent’s biggest clubs and ward off the threat of a Super League – something they clearly failed to achieve. Javier Tebas, LaLiga’s president and the host of Thursday’s Club Advisory Platform (CAP) of the European Leagues umbrella group, believes the breakaway competition’s demise has changed the nature of the discussions. “We really need to use this gift that we’ve really been given of this terrible idea of a Super League to effect change. “We must realise that although we’ve won one battle (the Super League) I really don’t believe that yet we have won the war.

Source: Express May 27, 2021 15:11 UTC