Last night, the newspaperThe Spiegelof Germany published a series of investigative reports on the secrets of contemporary football, related to two most prominent issues:

(1) How PSG and Man City colluded with current FIFA President Gianni Infantino to escape heavy penalties under UEFA's Financial Fair Play Law.

(2) How European giants have secretly nurtured and planned a Super League tournament project dedicated to them since 2016.

TOPIC (1):

Gianni Infantino calls for a revolution at FIFA, but he himself has been the one to do the opposite. Worse, when Infantino was UEFA General Secretary, he acted as an intermediary for two big clubs, PSG and Man City, to circumvent the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations.

Specifically, Infantino secretly met with representatives of these two clubs to negotiate. From there, he urged UEFA to accept "reconciliation" through light fines for PSG and Man City's FFP violations, instead of banning these two clubs from competing in European cups.

Besides Infantino, Michel Platini also played a role in covering up for PSG and Man City.

Not only that, this case also involved former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy has influence over both PSG and Man City.

With PSG, in 2010, Sarkozy called on Qatar's Prince Tamim Al-Thani to buy PSG (the club that Sarkozy supported), and at the same time set up a television unit in France (which is now the beIN SPORTS network), in return he would tell Platini to help Qatar host the 2022 World Cup.

As for Man City, no one knew that Sarkozy also had a relationship with Khaldoon Al Mubarak - Man City's chairman. Documents fromThe SpiegelIt was not clear, but Sarkozy also contributed to helping Man City escape heavy punishment from UEFA.

The Spiegelpointed out: Qatari owners circumvented FFP to pump 1.8 billion euros into PSG, while within 7 years UAE owners pumped 2.7 billion euros into Man City.

TOPIC (2):

The Big Seven, 7 European giants including Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Arsenal and AC Milan, since early 2016 have begun secret discussions (behind UEFA and ECA) about the Super League tournament project.

The first draft of the project, as described byThe Spiegel, sent to Real Madrid by Charlie Stillitano - a head full of gravel - who brought the Real Madrid vs Man Utd match to the US in 2014. According to Stillitano's outline, each major club will earn from half a billion euros per year.

Bayern Munich plays a role in researching the law to find loopholes for the formation of the Super League: Can Bayern Munich (as well as other clubs with corresponding tournaments) leave the Bundesliga to join the Super League, will players' contracts be affected, will Bayern Munich have any problems if they do not let their players serve the national team...

At that time, Bayern's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was the President of ECA - the association representing more than 200 European clubs. The person who helped Rummenigge research the law was Michael Gerlinger, the club's head of legal affairs.

Initially, this project was discussed urgently and enthusiastically by the Big Seven. Gradually, with the "sniffing" of UEFA and other small clubs, the Super League project became a weapon for the European giants to put pressure on UEFA. They forced UEFA to compromise, giving them greater benefits (economic, political). After achieving these benefits, some clubs were somewhat less determined with the project. However, the Super League was still open and the clubs were inclined towards not giving up the national championship.

According toThe Spiegel, the latest draft of the Super League mentions a binding agreement, with 11 "founding" clubs (the Big Seven with PSG, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool), and 5 "bookers" (Atletico, Dortmund, Marseille, Inter and Roma), expected to be signed in November. A tournament management company is set up, with the highest shares being Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Man Utd and Bayern Munich respectively.

(In early 2018, Der Spiegel's information source sent the newspaper a huge amount of information, raising the level of Football Leaks data thatThe Spiegelis holding 70 million documents, with a capacity of more than 3.4 terabytes. After many months of work,The Spiegellaunched its latest series of investigative reports last night. It is expected to continue with series in the coming weeks on: Champions League winners who tested positive for doping, and how Premier League giants evade tax.