Sports
April 20, 2021
MADRID: Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa said on Monday the club reject the idea of the European Super League, despite receiving “informal contact” about joining the project.
Porto are not among the 12 founding clubs of the controversial competition, which threatens to alter the entire system of European football.
The statement published by the breakaway clubs said there is room for three more permanent members to be added but Pinto da Costa says two-time European champions Porto, who last won the Champions League in 2004, will not be one of them.
“There was some informal contact from some clubs, but we didn’t pay much attention for two reasons,” Pinto da Costa, told the club’s official website on Monday.