Juventus are threatened with Serie A EXPULSION if they don’t leave the Super League

Juventus will be kicked out of Serie A if they do not withdraw from the European Super League, Italian soccer federation president Gabriele Gravina said on Monday.

While AC Milan and Inter Milan backed out of the ill-fated bid to form a breakaway competition, Juventus remains the lone holdout in Italy.

‘The rules are clear. If Juventus is still part of the Super League when it enters next season, it can’t participate in Serie A,’ Gravina told Naples radio station Kiss Kiss. 

‘I would be sorry for the fans but rules are rules and they apply to everyone.’

Real Madrid and Barcelona are also still grasping onto the project, despite the risk of being banned from the Champions League.

‘I hope this holdout ends soon,’ Gravina added.

Juventus remains the lone holdout in Italy after Inter Milan and AC Milan backed out of it

The Super League project imploded three weeks ago after the six English clubs involved – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham – backed out inside 48 hours of the project’s announcement after a backlash from fans and the British government.

The Premier League clubs along with Atletico Madrid, Milan and Inter have officially signed up to a settlement with UEFA to participate only in the existing open European competitions and agreed to have up to 5% of revenue from those competitions withheld for one season.

The comments from Gravina follow a joint statement from Juventus, Barcelona and Real Madrid over the weekend, slamming ‘unacceptable pressures, threats and offences’ to scrap the Super League project, turning on the nine clubs that have signed a deal with UEFA.

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The Spanish duo and Italian giants have released a joint statement in response to UEFA

‘The founding clubs have suffered, and continue to suffer, unacceptable third-party pressures, threats, and offences to abandon the project and therefore desist from their right and duty to provide solutions to the football ecosystem via concrete proposals and constructive dialogue,’ the statement read. 

‘This is intolerable under the rule of law and Tribunals have already ruled in favour of the Super League proposal, ordering FIFA and UEFA to, either directly or through their affiliated bodies, refrain from taking any action which may hinder this initiative in any way while court proceedings are pending.’

The statement goes onto explain that the much-maligned Super League was designed to ‘provide solutions to the current unsustainable situation in the football industry’ and that ‘structural reforms are indispensable to ensure our sport stays appealing and survives in the long-term’.