Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, president of PSG and the ECA (European Club Association), is one of the strongest opponents of the Super League project defended by Real Madrid and Barça, in addition to being an ally of UEFA in this controversial issue. However, the Qatari leader previously planned the creation of a similar competition, an alternative to the Champions League, together with the then president of Juventus, Andrea Agnelli, according to the newspaper L’Équipe.
The project in question was named ‘Bohr’, in reference to the Danish physicist Niels Bohr who participated in the creation of the atomic bomb. Continuing with the information from the French newspaper, the president of the Parisian club met with his counterpart in the Vecchia Signora in the fall of 2020 to design a tournament that would save the teams’ finances.
The meeting, which took place in Paris, was revealed by Agnelli himself in an interview in the Financial Times. Al Khelaïfi was in charge of managing the financial aspect of the project, while the Italian was going to dedicate himself to government management.
Both Al Khelaïfi and Agnelli, according to L’Équipe, considered that the economic crisis caused by the Covid pandemic had irreparably burdened the clubs and that the Champions League did not distribute enough income among its participants.
The French newspaper also assures that Al Khelaïfi’s PSG initially joined the Super League led by Real Madrid, Barça and Juventus, presented in April 2021, but that it later changed its position when the Qatari leader was appointed. president of the ECA.
