Real Madrid president insists European Super League will return

Perez says clubs, funding bank have taken time to reflect following a backlash over the announced project.

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has said the 12 clubs who were part of the European Super League could not abandon it due to binding contracts, promising that the project would return after a period of reflection. Perez was one of the leading figures in the breakaway competition, which was unveiled last Sunday only to fall apart within days when all six English clubs involved withdrew and others followed. But Perez, whose club is one of the three teams along with Barcelona and Juventus yet to abandon the project, said it was not so simple for clubs to leave.