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The Super League was the dream child of Real Madrid president Florentino Perez but within just 48 hours of its announcements, the breakaway league came crumbling down.

Initially, 12 of the biggest teams in Europe were a part of the Super League, out of which six were from the English Premier League. But when things started getting hotter, the English sides were the first to pull out.

Perez has made it clear that the dream of the Super League is not yet over and in the same breath, he’s also hinted that the Premier League authorities were one of the biggest reasons why the rebel league did not take off.

The Real Madrid president said on Spanish radio show El Larguero, as quoted by Sky Sports: “If anyone thinks the Super League is dead, are they wrong? Absolutely.

“We’re going to keep working and what everyone thinks is for the best will emerge. The project is on standby. The Super League still exists.

“I’m a bit sad and disappointed because we’ve been working on this project for three years. There was someone in the group of six English teams who wasn’t that interested and I think that started to become contagious among the others.

“There are people of a certain age involved and maybe they were scared because they didn’t understand anything that was going on. We all signed a binding contract, but I don’t think that one of them was ever convinced.

“In the end, there was an onslaught from the leagues and the Premier League got fired up, so they said, ‘we’ll leave it for now’.”

Manchester City were the first English side who formally pulled out of the Super League, and then within half a day, all the other Premier League sides followed the same path.

The Premier League authorities, the non-ESL English clubs and even high profile people like Boris Johnson and Prince William came out to show discontent with the Super League so the big-six clubs chose to back out without wasting any time.

While Perez is still harbouring feelings of the ESL, but there are rumours the Premier League sides could be forced to sign a binding contract that would prevent them from joining such a rebel league in the future.

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