The European Super League president - Florentino Perez - faced the media last night for the first time since the competition's dramatic collapse on Tuesday evening.
After 12 clubs agreed to join the breakaway competition on Sunday, all six of the English clubs involved - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur - were forced to back out after a remarkable backlash from clubs not involved, supporters and pundits alike.
The clubs were blasted for their plans to form the breakaway tournament, with many highlighting the damaging impact it would have on football as a whole and the English pyramid.
In the end, the six English clubs were forced to pull the plug on Tuesday night, following various protests from supporters.
The most telling protest came at Stamford Bridge ahead of Chelsea's Premier League clash with Brighton & Hove Albion. Several hundred Chelsea supporters, who are still unable to attend matches because of coronavirus restrictions, gathered outside the stadium and blocked the team bus' entrance to the ground.
In a remarkable scene of events, former Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech emerged within the crowd, urging Chelsea's supporters to backdown and insist that the situation would be sorted.
Within minutes, the first reports emerged that Chelsea were preparing documentation to pull the plug and exit the competition.
Now, Perez, who is refusing to give up on an alternative tournament being formed, insisting that the Super League plan is not "dead," has made a bizarre admission about the Blues supporters who gathered outside Stamford Bridge ahead of Tuesday's Premier League encounter.
Appearing on El Larguero last night, Perez said: "Chelsea fans? They were 40 people outside Stamford Bridge... and if you want, I will tell you who took them there."
To say that "40 people" had gathered outside Stamford Bridge was a remarkable understatement. Several hundreds gathered outside the Blues' home to make their voices heard about how much they disapproved of the idea of a European Super League being formed.
But who Perez implies who had led them there remains a mystery.
As well as making that claim about Chelsea's supporters, Perez also confirmed that those have so far exited the Super League plan have not officially completed their departures.
He added: "Nobody has yet paid the penalisation fee for leaving the Super League. We are almost all still in this, they have not officially left yet."
