A European Super League would further drive up the cost for supporters to attend matches and lead to an widening competitive imbalance domestically.
That is the view of three independent experts who are urging the European Court of Justice to rule against a monopoly claim made by Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus against UEFA when they provide their initial judgment next week.
In an article published by the London School of Economics, academics Tsjalle van der Burg, Hanno Beck and Aloys Prinz stress that the financial reality of a Super League would further detach the big clubs from their domestic rivals and the entire concept of a closed competition “suffers from several significant flaws.”