Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin pointedly appealed to “the unity of the European football family” in helping the game “bounce back” to “navigate through its darkest times”, in his introduction to the body’s annual benchmarking report, which happened to be published on the same day as the European Super League was relaunched. The Slovenian official did not refer to the controversial project by name but did refer to “recovering from unprecedented threats”.
The report inevitably notes how the Premier League’s financial strength is at an “unprecedented” high, with England the only “big five” country that outpaced its 2019 transfer activity, and that is distorting “a previously converging market”.
