Exclusive: Super League clubs still to pay their fines in full
IMAGO | Mohammed Salah during a UEFA Champions League match against Real Madrid in 2023.
Three years after six EPL clubs agreed to pay £22 million to grassroots causes to atone for their part in the Super League plot, payments are trickling in.
EPL confirm payments are up to date, but refuse to give any details of transactions, who has benefited or how much has been paid.
Why it matters: As legal and political scrutiny falls on the Premier League over its sanctioning regime, the league’s lack of transparency over how it dealt with the biggest crisis in its history raises questions.
The perspective: The “goodwill gestures” agreed by the EPL six amounted to less than 1 per cent of 2021 turnover, but clubs appear to have an unlimited timeline to pay them.
24 January 2024 - 4:35 PM
The six Premier League clubs that took part in a plot to join a breakaway European Super League three years ago are still to fully pay a £22 million settlement agreement for their part in the scandal and are also unlikely to have to pay their share of a €15 million settlement with UEFA.
The “gesture of goodwill” payments that the six clubs – Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool – collaboratively agreed in May 2021 to pay towards Premier Leagu
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