Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis suggested on Friday that the owners of Roma and Liverpool are secretly the same, prompting Roma chairman James Pallotta to joke that he "also owns Barca and Bayern."
In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport on Friday, De Laurentiis said "a little bird has told me a few years ago" that Pallotta is in some form of partnership with Liverpool's owner John Henry.
"I always had a suspicion that the real owner of Roma is the same as Liverpool and if this were the case, the two clubs should not be allowed to play in the Champions League," De Laurentiis said.