Rotten.
Nice work. Did you put this together?
Yeah. Everything is pointing to Saudi Arabia and Florentino Perez. The German newspaper Suddeutche Zeitung has discovered that it was Saudi money behind the whole European Super League project. Then it was just 2+2=4.
Saudi Arabia desperately wants to invest in European football, just like Qatar and UAE have done with PSG and Manchester City. It's a political, PR and financial project for all of them. I am pretty sure that Saudis, in the near future, will buy one of the European clubs. Probably Inter Milan. Or, Newcastle, if the British government and FA allow them to do that.
My guess is that Putin called Roman Abramovich and told him to withdraw from the ESL. Gazprom's sponsorship of the UEFA Champions League and the Champions League final in 2022. in St. Petersburg are too precious to Putin. Also, some of the European Cup games will be played in St. Petersburg this year. And without Chelsea, PSG, Bayern, Borussia Dortmund and many other clubs like Porto, Ajax, Napoli, Benfica, Anderlecht, Monaco, Lyon, Marseille, Leverkusen, Leipzig etc. what's the point of the so called Super League?