• Charlie Stillitano discussed league restructuring with five English clubs
• ‘What would Manchester United argue: did we create soccer or did Leicester?’Closing off European football competitions to include only elite clubs could build them far richer,according to the American sports executive who has held talks with the leading English Premier League teams about a shake-up to long-established league structures.
The Relevant Sports chairman, Charlie Stillitano, and held talks with Arsenal,Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester City and Manchester United on Tuesday in London about this year’s International Champions Cup (ICC),an annual pre-season friendly tournament organised by his company. Stillitano confirmed they also discussed “restructuring the Champions League” – an issue tall on the European Club organization agenda amid a power vacuum at Uefa.
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Source: theguardian.com