The Super League task is "very overmuch alive" according to Bernd Reichart, the caller CEO of A22 Sports Management, the institution promoting the revamped plan.
The breakaway competition, which included 12 elite European clubs, was launched successful April 2021 but collapsed 48 hours aboriginal aft English Premier League clubs pulled out owed to a wide nationalist backlash and governmental opposition.
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Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus, who were among the 12 founding clubs, person not withdrawn from the project.
"It's precise overmuch alive. There are immoderate who privation to state that it is dead, but if they accidental it a lot, determination is overmuch to suspect," Reichart told Cadena Ser.. "There are clubs successful Europe that surely stock the imaginativeness of Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona, and present they person the accidental to stock what they think.
"There is simply a wide statement that shot needs reform. Football cannot proceed arsenic it is designed now."
Football's governing bodies, UEFA and FIFA, are against the instauration of the Super League.
"Nobody wants it but the fewer who deliberation that shot is each astir money," UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said astir the Super League earlier this year.
A Madrid tribunal stopped UEFA from punishing the breakaway clubs and the lawsuit was referred to the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The ECJ is expected to regularisation aboriginal successful 2023 connected the situation made by Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus to the alleged monopoly power they accidental UEFA has implicit planetary competitions.
With the Super League facing ineligible hurdles, Reichart does not expect the breakaway contention from starting earlier the 2024-25 campaign.
"Until determination is certainty from the European Court, it's unreasonable to deliberation that it could beryllium played earlier the 2024-25 campaign," Reichart said. "It's a agelong journey, but we person the humility to bash it measurement by measurement without pause."
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Reichart said the revamped Super League task volition beryllium much inclusive with "sporting merit applied," which was 1 of the main criticisms of the archetypal plan.
"The conception of a fixed [guaranteed] placement is not thing that we are presently considering," helium added. "Sporting merit volition beryllium applied to each members of that Super League."
Reichart confirmed that the Super League would not beryllium played astatine the weekends and hence not impact the home competitions.
"The Super League has ne'er been intended to harm the home leagues, oregon the calendar, but we are talking astir European contention during the week, yes," helium said.
Despite the Premier League clubs' opposition, Reichart said the Super League "will widen its hands to each members of European football."
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