In a week where Europe's elite were preparing a breakaway to set up a Super League while UEFA outlined their plans to revolutionise the Champions League, one of the only areas people agree on is that European football needs reform.
Real Madrid president, and president of the doomed Super League, Florentino Perez came out fighting but his efforts to overhaul the game are now falling on deaf ears.
English football's six Super League participants have pulled out - four clubs apologising directly to their supporters for the error in their judgement - and while Perez insists it is not over, the notion of a Super League is fast fading.