Real Madrid has debunked reports of the club planning to join the English Premier League and leave La Liga. According to the club, the speculations are all fake. They said it is “completely false, absurd and impossible.”
On Saturday, Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportive says Real Madrid had been “studying for weeks” the possibility of leaving Spain’s top flight. It also said that the club president Florentino Perez’s favoured option was the Premier League, but the information had also been compiled on Serie A and the Bundesliga.
Real Madrid denied the reports in a statement. The statement says “only intends to disturb, once more, the day to day of our club”. The reports come days after Real launched a lawsuit against La Liga president Javier Tebas over a 2.7bn euro (£2.3bn) investment in the league from CVC Capital Partners.
Real, Juventus and Barcelona are the only sides not to have renounced the breakaway European Super League and have reiterated their intention to “keep developing the Super League project.” Real have debts of around £1bn, as do Barca and fellow La Liga side Atletico Madrid.