Get the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Real Madrid president Florentino Perez worked away in the shadows in April to mastermind the European Super League proposal.
The politician-turned-football-bureaucrat launched an assault on football when plans were announced to create a closed shop 'elite' division earlier this year, but thankfully the proposal was met with unprecedented backlash and anger from supporters.
It soon emerged why Perez and the other Super League rebel clubs were so intent on destroying football as we know it, though, because some of the continent's biggest clubs, including Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus, were drowning in crippling debt.
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