Chelsea handed boost over European Super League snub after co-owner's admission

Chelsea have been handed a boost over their European Super League snub after co-owner Behdad Eghbali's recent admission.

In 2021, a European Super League was formed of 12 of Europe's leading football clubs and Chelsea were one of the founding teams involved.

On the March 18th the Blues released a club statement revealing they would be establishing a new midweek competition, the Super League.

The clubs announced as founders were, AC Milan, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur.

There was also a plan to include another three clubs before the competition began.

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang after his goal against AC Milan. (Alamy)

Following the statement's from clubs however there was an immense load of backlash. Within 48 hours nine of the proposed founders confirmed their exits from the plans to launch the Super League.

Chelsea were joined by all the fellow English clubs, AC and Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid in their decision to leave.

The Spanish side were the first to reveal they would be leaving the competition and were quickly followed.

Since then the Blues have been taken over by a new ownership team.

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Co-owner Eghbali believes that none of the nine clubs that stepped away from the proposed Super League have any desire to continue to pursue it.

The Clearlake Capital co-founder appeared at the Sportico Invest in Sports conference in New York on Wednesday and spoke to Football London.

He said: "I think the sport needs more premium high quality matches and content but it doesn't have to be a Super League.

Todd (Boehly) went there on an All-Star Game, the baseball talent competition or draft generates £200 million to £300 million of revenue on a Monday or Tuesday each year, none of that exists in the EPL."

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Carney Chukwuemeka against Brentford for Chelsea. (Alamy)

He continued: "Could there be an EPL versus Serie A game? Could you see pre-season matches producing more premium content on the pitch? You could.

"But structurally, given how botched that episode was does anybody have any appetite for something like that? A couple of teams in Spain do and they are vocal about it, but everyone else doesn't want to go there anymore."