European Super League's new organiser open to English club talks

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Brighton players deterioration  anti-Super League T-shirtsThere were protests from shot fans and players successful England astir the thought of the European Super League

The doorway is unfastened for English clubs to articulation caller talks astir launching a European Super League, says a elder enforcement connected the project.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham backed retired of the project wrong 48 hours of its ill-fated motorboat successful 2021.

But Bernd Reichart has indicated that talks with those clubs could inactive happen.

"It is simply a voluntary proposition to talk," Reichart told BBC Sport.

The erstwhile main enforcement astatine German broadcaster RTL has been appointed main enforcement of A22 Sports Management, the institution promoting a revamped Super League proposal.

He added: "If idiosyncratic closes a door, I cannot speech to them but I would expect radical to beryllium funny and that important clubs volition privation to thrust it and spell into the discussions.

"A fig of clubs proceed to attraction and suggest solutions contempt criticism. They travel back, they listen, they larn and prosecute successful a conversation."

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus stay wedded to the thought of a Super League.

They were 3 of 12 elite European clubs who announced the enactment of the contention - which would person operated extracurricular of Uefa's power - successful April 2021.

But the six English clubs progressive each withdrew swiftly amid wide nationalist and governmental opposition, with Prince William and then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson among those speaking retired against it.

The Super League thought could beryllium fixed caller impetus, though, with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) scheduled to regularisation adjacent outpouring connected the validity of Uefa's monopoly connected organising cross-border competitions.

Since the archetypal program collapsed, Uefa and the influential European Clubs' Association, present headed by Paris St-German president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, person created a associated assemblage for maximising commercialized opportunities and negotiating broadcasting rights.

This has not stalled ESL supporters, with Reichart present starring the program to revive the project.

Earlier this month, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said shot was "sick", with Juventus and Barcelona some experiencing terrible fiscal pressures.

Reichart says helium wants to make a contention wherever fiscal regulations are decently enforced, claiming this is not the lawsuit currently.

And helium is keen to sermon a much unfastened contention - with a deficiency of promotion and relegation 1 of the large factors successful the downfall of the archetypal plan.

"The cardinal portion of the disapproval was astir imperishable membership, sporting merit and promotion and relegation," said Reichart. "Now the format volition beryllium the effect of constructive dialogue.

"I americium having ideas thrown astatine maine and I privation to research them. We don't person a pre-determined format due to the fact that that is what destroyed the dialog past year. Then definite elements were picked up, Uefa came retired with threats and sanctions and the statement was over.

"Now we are returning and making suggestions. It is the close attack and a credible one. There are a fig of formats that could contiguous the crippled successful a much charismatic and effectual way."

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