President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Aleksander Čeferin has said that there is 'slightly possibility' that Tuesday's Championships League semi-final between Spanish side Real Madrid and English side Chelsea FC could be cancelled as punishment for the two clubs for their role in the European Super League, Newspremise reports.

It would be recall that Real Madrid and Chelsea were both part of the 'dirty dozone', the 12 European giants who announced their breakaway to form Competition on Sunday night.

However, strong protests from fans, players, managers and pundits led to the idea collapsing and its founder, Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, admitted the project was in tatters on Wednesday after all six Premier League clubs dropped out.

Attention has now turned to what punishment the 12 clubs, which included all of the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’, three clubs from Spain and three from Italy, would face for their role in the scheme.

Three of the 12 – Chelsea, Manchester City and Real Madrid – are still in the Champions League while Arsenal and Manchester United are competing in the Europa League semi-finals.

One option that has been put forward is those clubs still involved in UEFA’s flagship club competitions could be disqualified, especially as Real Madrid have not formally withdrawn from the Super League.

Ceferin, who called the breakaway group ‘snakes’, ‘arrogant’ and ‘greedy’ over the past few days, has admitted there is a chance the semi-finals will not go ahead but warned broadcasting deals make it unlikely.

‘The key is that this season has already started, so broadcasters would come at us for damages if we don’t play the semi-finals,’ he said on Slovenian TV channel 24UR.

'So, there’s a relatively small possibility that this match isn’t played next week. But, things could be a little different in the future.’

When asked about Real Madrid president Florentino Perez’s outburst on Wednesday night, in which he said he would never want a UEFA president like Ceferin, the Slovenian replied: ‘Well, that’s more incentive for me to stay.

'He wants a president who obeys whatever he says, who listens to him and who does what he thinks. I do what I think is good for European and world football.'

Perez has refused to back down in his defence of the disastrous Super League project and insists anyone who thinks the project is dead is ‘completely wrong’.

In an interview with El Larguero’s Manu Carreno, Perez, who was also the president of the Super League, claimed a smear campaign was created to oppose the plans after fierce backlash across Europe.

'I am a bit sad, disappointed,' he started. '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 LaLiga, so you look for more money midweek.

‘The leagues are sacred. What we can change is the midweek games. The Champions League is obsolete – it’s only interesting from the quarter-finals onwards.

'Among the 12 teams we lost €650million last season. This season two or three more times. This format clearly does not work.’

Perez also bizarrely claimed that Chelsea fans were ‘taken’ to Stamford Bridge to protest the Super League on Tuesday night, which helped spark a chain reaction in the English clubs dropping out.

He said: ‘Who brought those Chelsea fans to protest? There were only 40 Chelsea fans, and I could tell who brought them… just like here someone gave Cadiz jerseys (against Super League).’


Source: https://newspremises.com.ng/chelsea-and-real-madrids-champions-league-semi-final-may-not-go-ahead-says-uefa-chief-ceferin/

Can this people just allow Chelsea win this UCL in peace??

Cc: Lalasticlala, Mynd44, Dominique

It won't happen because UEFA can be sued and they will lose a huge amount of money, broadcasters, fans and the viewers all over the world will not take it lightly oh

Na wash....
If em try am, then them go know say as fans kill ESL na so em go kill champions league....

These clubs are after their money n profit so is UEFA.. I no sabi wetin d bin deal come be

That's nonsense, you said you don't want ESL and they back out and ready to continue with UEFA and you still want to punish them? That's ridiculous and nonsense, you don't need to punish them again since they all agreed to back out from the ESL, so they (UEFA) need to back out from this petty thing called punishments.

They cant stop them from playing the game now, they backed out of the Super League so why should they stop them. they should not do any how oo.

Read: https://sportscliffs.com/2021/04/22/real-madrid-president-insist-super-league-is-alive/

UEFA can't try it.

except its covid reasons, its not dt easy to council such a big game for any selfish reasons...
ESL is dead on arrival, all clubs av dropped and only madrid n barca in it cnt run it..
so jus allow us enjoy dt game because I CNT wait to see Madrid show Chelsea why they are the kings of UCL.

donstan18:
Can this people just allow Chelsea win this UCL in peace??

win UCL in Peace bcoz its england league cup abi?? madrid is the most successful team in Europe, zizou have won 3 in a bounce. so put some respect on dt team..

Can this people just allow Chelsea win this UCL in peace??