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Ceferin dismisses "super league" plans as fiction

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin insists a European "super league" will never come to fruition amid reports of a proposed breakaway.

A recent Football Leaks document, reported in Der Spiegel, claimed a host of European football's top clubs were in advanced negotiations to create a new league.

The German publication alleged that Bayern Munich and the club's chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge were at the forefront of the plans, with Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus among the 11 clubs they were purportedly hoping to persuade to join a new competition.

"We have some ideas. All I can say is that any super league is out of the question. It will not happen. It is in a way a fiction now or a dream," he said.

"I can confirm we have never seen, never discussed, never been involved in the creation of this document.

"We are fully engaged with UEFA in shaping the game going forward."

"It will be our duty to safeguard the great heritages of European football but, on the other side, I think we are very well aware that we have to safeguard markets, we have to think about upcoming markets," Agnelli said.

"We have to think about Poland. We have to think about Turkey, we have to think about Russia. Fans can rest assured that if we put our hands into making a new product it's because we want to make sure fans across Europe engage."