Italian Journalist Mario Sconcerti: “Super League Plan Was Too Desperate, Agnelli Tried To Damage Serie A” | OneFootball

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·22 April 2021

Italian Journalist Mario Sconcerti: “Super League Plan Was Too Desperate, Agnelli Tried To Damage Serie A”

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Inter will not get the chance to take part in a European Super League because the project was built on ‘desperation’, a leading Italian journalist argued today.

The Nerazzurri were one of 12 clubs on Sunday night to announce they would take part in the new franchise, only to pull out on Wednesday following widespread condemnation from fans, players, politicians and rival clubs.


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Mario Sconcerti was far from impressed with the attempted to breakaway and accused Inter, AC Milan and Juventus’ chiefs of trying to ‘damage’ Serie A.

“There are three things we can learn from this story in hindsight,” Sconcerti wrote in a column for Corriere della Sera’s print edition.

“Firstly, it could still be possible for the big European clubs to agree something important which is less drastic than the Super League.

“Secondly, we’ve had confirmation that youngsters are taking far less interest in football than the generations of their fathers.

“Thirdly, the Super League collapsed in the space of two days because it didn’t have a strong industrial founding, it was brought forward out of desperation.

“Andrea Agnelli, Beppe Marotta and Ivan Gazidis have roles with the Lega Serie A and yet they were working to damage the league.

“You can’t do this.”

Sconcerti’s criticism of Marotta seems somewhat wide of the mark, given that Inter’s CEO admitted yesterday he was never directly involved in the plans to create the Super League.

The Super League project began to fall apart on Tuesday night when Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham pulled out under intense pressure from the Premier League and the UK government.

Inter, AC Milan and Atletico Madrid followed suit the next morning and now the plan seems dead, at least in its current guise.

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