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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Sport
Keifer MacDonald

'Repentant sinners' Liverpool praised for European Super League reaction

The chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association has hailed Liverpool for the pace at which they have enforced changes at board level following the debacle of the European Super League.

In April 2021, the Reds were one of six Premier League clubs convinced by Real Madrid president Florentino Perez to become a founding member of a European breakaway league. The 75-year-old successfully persuaded his counterparts at eleven elite-level European clubs to sign up for the project in an attempt to reach never-before-seen financial heights, which he insisted UEFA were preventing clubs from achieving.

Such plans for Premier League clubs were short-lived though as a wave of fan demonstrations across England - beginning with Liverpool's trip to Elland Road - saw the disgraced half-dozen top-flight clubs swiftly ditch Perez's scheme.

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