Why have Juventus pulled out of the Super League?
The letter sent to Barca and Real Madrid by Juventus allegedly explains that UEFA have threatened to ban the Turin outfit from European competitions for five years due to the cases it has recently been involved in.
The letter sent to Barca and Real Madrid by Juventus allegedly explains that UEFA have threatened to ban the Turin outfit from European competitions for five years due to the cases it has recently been involved in.
The most prominent of which saw the Serie A club docked 10 points, failing to qualify for the Champions League, and being made to play its third-string cousin the Conference League next term.
The Super League has put Barca, Real, and Juve at loggerheads with UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, and last summer saw the trio play friendlies against one another in a pre-season tour of the United States after a failure to find other European opponents.
Roma pulling out of the Joan Gamper Trophy friendly that Barca hold at the beginning of each new campaign was because of pressure from Paris Saint Germain and the European Club Association not to associate themselves with the Catalans.
Juventus know that in order to reach any kind of agreement with UEFA, it must step down from defending the Super League and attempting to see it realized.
Despite a public falling out by the eternal enemies in El Clasico, in relation to the Blaugrana's 'Caso Negreira' referee's committee payments scandal which could see Barca banned from the Champions League for a year as concluded by UEFA investigatorsβ¦
Barca and Madrid have not shown any indication of quitting in their quest to launch the Super League.
At the turn of this year, Barca president Joan Laporta boldly predicted that the competition "will be a reality in 2025" and could merge with the Premier League.
Source: Forbes
Source: Forbes
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