Special Report: What do the ECA actually want?

Hunt for settlement on Champions League reforms, previously promised by late March, goes on without resolution.

Numerous sources across European game express concern about ECA, alleging that the body wants to ultimately take over the running of European club competition and is positioning itself to do so.

Champions League reform talks broke down at the twelfth hour after clubs demanded majority control over commercial joint venture with UEFA.

“They are set up as a lobby group, but you can see from the people they are hiring that their ambitions lie beyond that.”