Crystal Palace Chairman has written the below column for the Sunday Times, republished below in full.
After three years of meticulous planning — or three days, depending on who is telling the story — Joan Laporta, the Barcelona president, spilt the beans over lunch to, of all people, the La Liga president, Javier Tebas, who said that what he heard amounted to “a Super League of PowerPoints — there is not enough television money in the world to match the figures they were talking about”.
Tebas called everyone and anyone who mattered, including the Uefa president, Alexander Ceferin.