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In a way, you've got to admire Andrea Agnelli. It takes some neck to get up on stage and criticise the way in which European football is run, while at the ...

In particular, international TV rights, the value of which have risen by €422 million per season (an increase of 26 per cent for the 2022-23 to 2024-25 cycle when compared to the 2019-20 to 2021/22 cycle). The other big five are struggling to replicate that. They were in the Championship as recently as 2020, and haven't competed in European competition for 20 years, and yet sit 18th, above Champions League regulars like Benfica and Ajax. In a way, you've got to admire Andrea Agnelli. [he said in his farewell speech.](https://www.goal.com/it/notizie/agnelli-superlega-si-rischia-di-remare-a-favore-della-premier-league/bltff63396d5b5dcd56) "Otherwise, it risks a decrease in favour of a single dominant league which within a few years will attract all the talent of European football within its league, completely marginalising the other leagues and the others are already marginalised." For the first time ever, more than half of the clubs (11 of 20) come from the same country, while 80 percent of the Premier League's current members are represented in the top 30.