THE chief executives of the six rebel European Super League clubs have all resigned their roles with the Premier League.
Bosses of the remaining 14 clubs had insisted they no longer trusted those who had tried to set up the breakaway competition.
They demanded the top dogs at Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham be removed from positions on advisory groups and committees.
And SunSport can reveal all six — Vinai Venkatesham, Ed Woodward, Bruce Buck, Billy Hogan, Ferran Soriano and Rebecca Caplehorn — have now given in to Premier League demands and quit.
There had been some within the league who wanted heads to roll at the top table, by banning them from the full board.
That was never going to be imposed in reality, but the absence of any of the top sides in all working groups and committees sees a major shift in power at headquarters.
League bosses are still going through exactly what happened with the emergence of the ESL to see if any of the clubs involved actually broke any regulations.
However, all six insist they are legally protected from any charges being imposed and will fight any disciplinary action through the courts.
SunSport has revealed that at any one time there were between 300 and 400 staff — including bankers, lawyers and communications experts — working in various countries to try and get the European Super League over the line.
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Some of the clubs involved had been working on this for months.
As for the clubs’ media officers, they only found out a couple of days beforehand — and most thought the ESL was a terrible idea.
Although not all of them.
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has been vocal in his desire to continue with contractual obligations for the league to go ahead.
Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has made his thoughts on Perez no secret and recently said in a damning interview: “Perez is the president of a Super League that didn’t exist, and at the moment he’s the president of nothing.”
Ceferin also slammed Perez and other names behind the Super League as ‘snakes.’
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
