Facing Legal Action: Real Madrid Demand Six English Clubs Pay the Bill for the Failed Super League
The club wants the six English teams to help cover launch expenses after their rapid exit helped collapse the breakaway project.
- Real Madrid is seeking $89.9 million from six Premier League clubs—Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur—to cover costs from the aborted European Super League venture.
- A dozen clubs launched the ESL in April 2021 to rival the Champions League, but the proposal faced intense fan backlash, prompting all six English clubs to withdraw within three days.
- Madrid, Barcelona, and Juventus have shared the financial burden of the ESL to date, with the $89.9 million total requiring each of the 12 founding clubs to contribute about $7.5 million.
- Real Madrid president Florentino Perez insists the clubs cannot leave, citing a binding contract, while former Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli confirmed the founding members are legally binding shareholders.
- Whether the clubs must pay depends on the contract's specific wording, as legal experts suggest sufficiently savvy lawyers could argue either side given the document's existing vagaries.
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Facing legal action: Real Madrid demand six English clubs pay the bill for the failed Super League
After four years of silence, Real Madrid have decided to open the old files and settle the accounts. The Spanish club, who have been left alone defending the dream of the European Super League, are now demanding that six English Premier League clubs that fled the project in its very first days pay their share of the failure's bill, estimated at 80 million euros.
Real Madrid wants English clubs to return part of the money spent on the establishment of the European Super League.According to The Athletic, the Spanish club believes that Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham should reimburse their share of the initial costs of installing the project, despite the fact that in end are withdrawing.A source told the medium that the total amount that English clubs can pay r…
The Madrid Club has financial claims against English clubs that have agreed to a new tournament but have subsequently refused to participate.
Real Madrid seeks to oblige six English clubs to bear a share of the European super-cost, estimated at Euro80 million, despite its withdrawal in 2021. Do the original contracts allow for the collection of those funds?
Real Madrid has demanded that six English clubs pay a share of the initial costs of launching the European Super League.
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