Real Madrid President, Florentino Perez, has said that the European Super League is not dead and the plans still exist.

This comes after the ESL suffered an abrupt death after just 48 hours of its official announcement despite about three years of planning.

TalkSports reports that the plans crumbled after six English Premier League clubs, who were founding members of the ESL, pulled out of the project.

With Manchester City, Chelsea Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Tottenham jumping off the ESL ship, other European teams, including Inter and Atletico Madrid, announced their withdrawal.

This followed an announcement by Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli who noted that the ESL plans could no longer continue following backlashes received from all angles.

Speaking in an interview with El Larguero, Perez who was supposed to be the chairman of the league said: “The Super League project is now in stand-by, I can confirm.

“Juventus and AC Milan have not left the Super League. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and AC Milan are still in talks to find solutions.

“If this project didn’t work, another one will. Remember: all the 12 clubs have signed a binding contract.”

He continued: “I am a bit sad, disappointed. We have been working three years on this project, on fighting the current financial situation in Spanish football. It is easy to understand – you cannot touch La Liga, so you look for more money midweek and UCL format is obsolete.

“I have never seen aggression greater on the part of the president of UEFA and other presidents of Liga, it was orchestrated, it surprised it all. Never seen anything like it – insults, threats, as if we had killed someone, killed football.

“We are just working on saving football, after this pandemic. Madrid income falling from 900m to 600m this year. We have worked very hard on something that would satisfy everyone – and we did expect such a response.”

Speaking further, Perez alleged that the fans who staged a protest against the ESL at Stamford Bridge weren’t actual Chelsea fans but people who were planted to protest against the controversial league.

“Who brought those Chelsea fans to protest? There were only 40 Chelsea fans [to begin with], and I could tell who brought them… just like here someone gave Cadiz jerseys [against the Super League].”

Perez further added that the six EPL clubs backed out because one of them wasn’t totally into the project and it discouraged others.

“There was someone in the English six clubs who did not have much interest. That started to affect the others, there was fear. One of the English clubs was never really convinced.

“There was a campaign, totally manipulated, that we were going to finish the national leagues. That we were ending football, it was terrible. But we were working for football to survive.

“There are people with privileges who do not want to lose them, and are willing to run clubs, although when the clubs are ruined they will lose their privileges.”

“The English clubs tried to do something, but they were being told they were killing football. But there is no other solution, than the Super League. Or somebody invents something else.

“They are leaving due to UEFA putting on a show, which surprised me. I don’t want to get into it with the UEFA president, but he needs to be able to talk. It was like we had thrown an atomic bomb. They did not let us explain, as they did not want anything to change.”

“It cannot be that in England, the six lose money, and 14 make money. In Spain, the top three lose money, and the others make money. It cannot continue – at the moment the rich are those who are losing money.”