Aleksander Čeferin reveals all on the Super League, football integrity & Liverpool's UCL Final
The Overlap
The Overlap
4.3 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin joins Gary Neville on the latest episode of The Overlap.
Aleksander speaks on his childhood & growing up in Slovenia, before becoming a defence lawyer.
They then discuss Liverpool's Champions League final, and Aleksander issues an apology to the club.
Finally the UEFA President talks about the European Super League and the following fallout.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I was being a criminal lawyer helped you survive as you were for president. |
| 0:10.0 | I know how to judge people. I'm not easily scared. |
| 0:14.0 | I said many times that I've met less criminals in 25 years of criminal law than in two years of football. We have to keep our football from these sharks that are swimming around. |
| 0:26.6 | Manchester United are for sale at this moment in time. |
| 0:28.6 | It looks like the only two bidders have other clubs in the French League which could end up playing against Manchester United. |
| 0:33.6 | How are you able to deal with that? |
| 0:35.6 | Those are the current rules, which we have to rethink. |
| 0:39.3 | Are you worried about the power of the English Premier League? |
| 0:41.3 | I'm not worried about that. |
| 0:43.3 | Can the Super League project exist without English clubs? |
| 0:46.3 | No way. |
| 0:47.3 | I lost it a bit. I said, look, you go to hell. |
| 0:50.3 | From tomorrow you are my enemies. |
| 0:52.3 | The recent UEFA report, which was damning of the situation around the Champions League final, |
| 0:58.0 | you've not spoken on this subject yet. |
| 1:00.0 | I feel sorry for what happened and we will make sure that it doesn't happen ever again. So we've got a big day today. We're interviewing the UAFA president, Alexander Schafferin. |
| 1:20.6 | Find out a little bit more about the governance, the structure of power in football in UEFA, |
| 1:25.8 | the attacks on UAFA from the big clubs around the Super |
| 1:28.8 | League and the report that's just come out in the last few weeks, which is damming of |
| 1:33.8 | UEFA's role in the Paris final, between Liverpool and Real Madrid. I think what I'm expecting |
| 1:39.0 | today, it's interesting about Sheffering. He's admired, he's liked. When you think of all the |
| 1:43.1 | corruption that's existed in global football over the last 20, 30 years, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Overlap, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Overlap and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.