Javier Tebas admitted that he had lied with his opposition strategy to Super League in 2021 and that the threats players and clubs would have if they supported the project. The League president explained how he learned of the birth of the Super League, in 2021, and how he worked with Alexandre Ceferinepresident of the UEFAin what he calls “Operation Pop the Balloon.”
Between laughs, Tebas explained the process by which the opposition to the Super League was created, in his first project announced in 2021, and with his words he acknowledged that He manipulated clubs and playersgiven that a possible punishment was invented it could not be given.
This sanction, invoked by the opponents of the Super League, was leaving these teams and their players without participating in international competitions (including a World Cup or a European Championship). And Tebas now laughingly acknowledges what we already knew, that it was impossible to arrivebut he didn’t care.
The League president acknowledged this by detailing how he conceived and carried out this “ball puncture operation”. Thus, Tebas – according to his own version – explained to Ceferin that he had to announce that he was going to present a Super League before the clubs participating in this project announced it themselves. “We have to say that we are going to ban it, but first we will see who we have in our favor in the league and the federations,” Tebas said. “You call these others, we will make a press release“UEFA must do it,” said the league president.
“The first press release came from a convent, but Where are we going with this statement?” exclaimed Tebas, to emphasize that the arguments against the Super League needed to be reversed. And that’s where the invention of the President of the League and of Ceferin. “We will say that we will ban players from competitions”added Tebas during his interview with Jordi Wild last Thursday.
After that, Tebas explained how his opposing partners in the Super League reacted. “Everyone tells me ‘but it’s forbidden’explained the leader of the League, who revealed his reaction at that moment and this is what explains the deception: “I don’t care, you’re going to put it on”. “It was necessary to put something very strong In order for this to have an impact, we decided to filter this news and break the ball before the news of the Super League was released,” Tebas explained. In other words, this argument that the players of the clubs that supported the Super League They were going to find themselves without participating in international competitions (especially a World Cup or a European Cup) was a lie, it was invented. And those who said it, including Thebes, as he now acknowledges, knew it was a lie.
He admits to having let Barça compete financially doped
In this interview, Tebas admitted that Barcelona had signed irregularly Jules Koundé and Robert Lewandowskitwo key signings of the summer of 2022. According to the president of the League, “the League could not say no” to the plan that FC Barcelona presented to him with those famous levers, with which Laporta sold the club’s assets with contracts that later were not fulfilled.
