Asked about several hot topics in European football, the president of ECA and PSG, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, again tackled the boss of Real Madrid.
At a time when his Paris Saint-Germain must rebuild, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is out in the media, but under his cap as president of the Association of European Clubs (ECA). On this occasion, the Qatari leader took the opportunity to defend the new financial fair play, but not only.
While Florentino Pérez (Real Madrid), Andrea Agnelli (Juventus) and Joan Laporta (FC Barcelona) await the answers of justice, NAK has also put a layer on the European Super League (ESL) project. Determined to blow up this project, Al-Khelaïfi once again showed himself to be offensive on this subject in an interview granted to the BBC.
PSG said no to €400m
“With ESL or non-ESL, I hate to say Super League; you are talking about three clubs. They know there is no chance. People are dying in Ukraine and have nowhere to sleep, and we are fighting for the Super League? The problem with ESL clubs is that they don’t have stability, they don’t have a long-term financial vision. They keep talking about their legal contract [avec l’ESL]. What they forget is that football is a social contract, not a legal contract, they wave a piece of paper”he said, before sending a tackle to Florentino Pérez.
“Florentino Perez spoke to me during the Champions League game and said: ‘we have to get to a point where we can talk to you. I was very hard with him, I said that I was happy to be able to dialogue, but that if he was going to do things behind my back, that did not interest me. I want to play those European games, the really big games, of course I want to. I know what the public wants, but we cannot say ‘you are a small club, you are excluded’. It has to be an open system, under the aegis of a governing body, where everyone is respected. I could have accepted the check for 400 million euros from the ESL because they invited me. Then when I said no, they said they didn’t invite me, that sums them up. If I had only thought of myself, I could have done it, especially during the Covid. But what about the ecosystem and the fans we represent? » We are awaiting the response from the boss of the Casa Blanca.
