'We have snakes close to us': UEFA chief condemns Super League plan

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A furious UEFA boss Alexander Ceferin refers to club figures supporting a new European Super League as 'snakes' as tensions rise over breakaway plans.

Ceferin spoke following a UEFA executive committee meeting and said some "legal assessments" would begin on Tuesday morning.

Three of the 12 rebels — Chelsea, Manchester City and Real Madrid — are scheduled to play in the Champions League semifinals next week.Earlier, the 12 planning to start the breakaway Super League told the leaders of FIFA and UEFA that they have started legal action aimed at fending off threats to block their competition.

The seismic move to shake up the sport is partly engineered by the American owners of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United, who also run franchises in closed US leagues, a model they are trying to replicate in Europe.Klopp on Monday repeated comments in past years that he was against a Super League: "My opinion didn't change," he told English Premier League broadcaster Sky ahead of a game at Leeds.

The breakaway was launched just as UEFA thought it had agreement on an expansion of the Champions League from 2024.

 

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