"It was great catching up with FIFA. President, Gianni Infantino on the sidelines of the #CAFElections2021. The rollout of the African Super League with 20 permanent member clubs is underway," Tanzanian side Simba's CEO Barbara Gonzalez tweeted a few weeks ago.
Gianni Infantino first announced the idea of the African Super League creation in 2019, claiming that it could potentially generate $200m in revenue. However, FIFA sources noted that there was no real business plan at the time.
According to The New York Times, it's expected that the participating teams would need to invest at least $20m per season for five seasons.
At the same time, there's no real evidence of the Super League creation, except for that tweet from Gonzalez. For now, the idea seems to be hardly feasible due to its complicated logistics: finding the perfect location to play games, coming up with a convenient schedule, etc.
"There's a suspicion that Gianni's [Infantino's] motivations may be less to do with securing the future of African soccer and more his hopes of creating a club competition that can rival and, eventually, overtake the Champions League," The New York Times add.
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Following the withdrawal of 9 out of 12 European Super League clubs, Florentino Perez gave an interview discussing the future of the project.
"The Super League project is now in stand-by, I can confirm," he told radio station El Larguero.
"Juventus and AC Milan have not left the Super League. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and AC Milan are still in talks to find solutions.
"If this project didn't work, another one will. Remember: all the 12 clubs have signed a binding contract.
"I am a bit sad, disappointed. We have been working three years on this project, on fighting the current financial situation in Spanish football. It is easy to understand - you cannot touch La Liga, so you look for more money midweek and UCL format is obsolete.
"I have never seen aggression greater on the part of the president of UEFA and other presidents of Liga, it was orchestrated, it surprised it all. Never seen anything like it - insults, threats, as if we had killed someone, killed football."
With major backlash from across the board, the European Super League will is no longer an imminent reality but the consequences of the supposed contracts signed by the breakaway clubs will only be apparent over time.
Florentino Perez forgets one of the Super League clubs during live TV interview – video goes viral
Speaking to El Chiringuito, European Super League president Florentino Perez failed to name all 6 Premier League clubs which initially joined the league.
Perez successfully remembered Man City, Man United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea but forgot to mention Spurs.
Under different circumstances, Tottenham fans would probably get angry but given most of them were against their side going to the ESL, there was no serious backlash on social media. The video quickly went viral, though.