According to L’Equipe, PSG contemplated creating a competition similar to the Super League before reconsidering: the Bohr project.
Despite being a staunch defender of the Champions League against the Super League project led by Real Madrid, Barcelona, or Juventus, PSG allegedly worked on a similar initiative, as revealed by Andrea Agnelli, former president of Juventus Turin, in an interview with the Financial Times last January.
« I remember taking the plane to Paris in the midst of Covid, » Agnelli told the British economic daily. « There was nobody around. Paris was deserted. Nasser (al-Khelaïfi) and I had conversations about a new competition, where he said that we needed changes because if we didn’t react, we were dead. »
The Bohr project is not associated with Real Madrid and its usual allies; it is a separate initiative led by the president of PSG this time.
Rejection of the Super League for Economic Reasons?
Sources close to the PSG president confirm the existence of this project: « A whole group of clubs was looking for ways to improve European competitions, how to make them more attractive, how to generate more revenue. This was done entirely with UEFA’s knowledge, » a source close to PSG told L’Equipe.
According to some sources, the club may have opted not to join the Super League because it deemed the promised sums insufficient. Did it hope for better remuneration with its project? Did it negotiate its allegiance to UEFA as some believe? One thing is certain: the PSG management has not always been fiercely opposed to a Super League project, concludes L’Equipe.