Todd Boehly and Chelsea owners have expressed their views on the European Super League’s new format.

The European Super League is back in the news after the European Court of Justice rejected FIFA and UEFA’s attempts to prevent the league from being formed in 2021.

Both governing bodies threatened to impose severe sanctions on the 12 clubs that founded the competition, which included Premier League clubs Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur, Italian clubs Inter Milan, Juventus, and AC Milan, and La Liga clubs Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, and Real Madrid.

The development sparked strong opposition from supporters, with the Premier League and UEFA both condemning the idea of a new Super League. However, the ECJ has concluded that the backlash was unlawful since UEFA and FIFA were abusing their market dominance by threatening to punish teams that tried to break away.

The ESL has just revealed a totally new 64-team model with no permanent members. The revamped model for the competition would involve 64 men’s and 32 women’s teams playing midweek in a league system across Europe, with the criteria for the formation based on ‘sporting merit’.

The three-tier tournament consists of the ‘Star League’ (16 clubs), the ‘Gold League’ (16 clubs), and the ‘Blue League’ (32 clubs) and will consist of annual promotion and relegation between leagues, with promotion into the ‘Blue League’ dependent on domestic league success.

So far, as of 1 p.m. on Thursday, December 21, Manchester United and Bayern Munich have lambasted the new system, with the Bundesliga heavyweights seeing it as a “attack on the importance of national leagues.”

Todd Boehly and Chelsea owners have expressed their views on the European Super League’s new format.

Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali will now make the decision on whether Chelsea will join the new European Super League. Since taking over at Stamford Bridge, the club’s co-controlling owners have stirred controversy in football by spending over £1 billion on new signings.

As football.london reported in September, Boehly and Eghbali believe the Premier League‘s economic potential will increase in the coming years. And, with the new Champions League model due to be implemented, the financial flow is as strong as ever.

“I never say no, I like to keep options open, but it [joining a European Super League] is not something we are talking about at all,” Boehly stated in September at the SALT Conference.

“I believe the Champions League already has a significant component of that.” Every season, the finest clubs compete against each other. That is already prevalent. If you win the Champions League, you will receive more than €100 million (£88.5 million). You win the Masters and make a few million dollars.

“I believe you can do that more frequently in the summer [play Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich], and there are other options.” I believe that the fans’ passion for the sport is so tremendous that I don’t see that changing.”

Eghbali, who plays a more quiet role at the club in Boehly, agreed with his co-controlling partner. “I think the sport needs more premium high-quality matches and content, but it doesn’t have to be a Super League,” he told football.london.

“Todd [Boehly] went there for an All-Star Game, the baseball talent competition or draft generates £200 million to £300 million in revenue on a Monday or Tuesday every year, none of which exist in the EPL.” Could there be an EPL-Serie A match? Could pre-season games produce more quality material on the pitch? You might be able to.

“But, structurally, given how botched that [ESL] episode was, does anyone want something like that?” A few teams in Spain do, and they are loud about it, but everyone else refuses to travel there.”