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Bartomeu: Barcelona accepted invite to European Super League

The president had some big news before leaving

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Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned from his position as Barcelona president on Tuesday and then spoke at a press conference where he dropped another bombshell.

The 57-year-old said that before leaving the board agreed to join in a future European super league that has been talked about recently.

Here’s what the ex-president had to say about it:

There’s long been talk of a European Super League, but the subject of breakaway league raised it’s head again recently.

Some of the world’s biggest clubs were said to be in talks about launching a new competition that would also see Wall Street bank JP Morgan involved.

Clubs such as Liverpool, Manchester United, Barca, Real Madrid, Juventus and Bayern Munich have already been mentioned, although the plan would face plenty of opposition and it still seems unlikely currently.

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