With Juventus beginning the process to pull out of the failed European Super League project last week, the proposed breakaway now consists of just two of its original chief architects – Barcelona and Real Madrid. Rumblings of Saudi Arabia now attempting to swallow the idea and make it their own have begun to surface, and SportsLens have composed exclusive odds on the future of a proposed football Super League.
- The original European Super League proposition is all but dead in the water, largely due to widespread backlash when the idea first surfaced in 2021.
- Barcelona and Real Madrid are the only two remaining advocates from the original ‘founders’, of which there were 12.
- The rapidly emerging Saudi Pro League are looking to take the reins on a new-look Super League, and hope to convince Europe’s elite to compete alongside them.
Future of the Super League | Exclusive Odds
- Super League to be revived with original clubs – 5/1
- To be revived with Saudi teams – 5/1
- Newcastle to join original teams – 5/1
Lee Astley, SportsLens’ Head of News, said: “It would take something drastic and frankly unpalatable for the Super League to be revived in its original form.
“Real Madrid and Barcelona remain resolute in their stance over what they claim to be the only way to balance the power shift happening in football right now, but their rapidly waining influence over the past decade has to be a driving factor.
“Saudi Arabia are some way from reaching their end goal as football’s most important league, but mutterings of a potential Super League takeover, in which they can transform it into a lucrative proposition for European teams, may appeal.”
Saudi Arabia to Revive The Super League – 5/1
The defining story of the summer window so far – the Saudi Pro League’s rapid ascension – has shades of what China attempted to do in the mid 2010’s.
Although they managed to attract some of European football’s star names, both young and old, Saudi Arabia’s perturbing venture into the market knows no bounds.
The nation’s oil-rich sovereign wealth fund have taken control of the league’s biggest clubs in a large-scale privatisation project, and the sky is limit to what, and who, they will be able to attract.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, N’Golo Kante, Ruben Neves – these are just some of the names who have been persuaded to join the Saudi revolution, albeit with one driving factor behind their decisions.
Nevertheless, there have been suggestions that the Pro League are eager try and persuade Barcelona and Real Madrid to join them in a new Super League proposition, in what would be a monumental step into elite football for Saudi.
UEFA would no doubt be unable to compete with the financial brawn of the nation’s boundless wealth fund, and teams such as Barcelona who have made no secret of their economic shortcomings in recent years, may be unable to turn down such a proposal.
We would go as far as saying that this is far more likely to materialise than the original iteration, particularly if more and more globally recognised players flock to Saudi.
For now the long-established European elite and the Saudi Pro League exist concurrently, albeit with a sizeable chasm separating them. A Saudi-led Super League would build a bridge between the two that was previously unfathomable.
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