Sir Alex Ferguson has criticised the failed European Super League project, saying that ‘every team should have their dream’ to succeed at the highest level.
The unsuccessful plans would have created a closed shop at the top of European football, with only five ‘outsiders’ able to qualify for the breakaway competition alongside 15 permanent members.
Ferguson’s former club Manchester United were among the leading players backing the proposals, but he told BBC Sport: ‘As a player I played in European football for Rangers and Dunfermline. And then as a manager I took a provincial club, Aberdeen, and beat Real Madrid in the (1983 Cup Winners’ Cup) final in Gothenburg.