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Revival project
On 19 October 2022, A22 Sports Management, the Spain-based company that "sponsor[s]" and "assist[s]" in "the creation of the European Super League," appointed as chief executive Bernd Reichart, formerly the CEO of German broadcaster RTL. The same day, Reichart claimed the European Super League "would be relaunched within three years." He added that European football is "becoming unsustainable" under the "current system." After claiming that "European club-football is not living up to its potential", he stated that "permanent membership is off the table" and, instead, the "stakeholders" should discuss "an open competition based on sporting merit." UEFA responded that they had received a letter from A22 and "will consider the request for a meeting in due course," while the management of the Premier League directed interested parties to its 9 June 2021 statement, jointly signed with the FA, in which it was acknowledged that their member-clubs' actions to participate in a Super League were a "mistake" and, therefore, "the matter" has been brought "to a conclusion."

UEFA's meeting with A22 Sports Management took place on 8 November 2022, and was attended by representatives from all sectors to express their total disagreement with the Super League. The meeting was attended by around 30 people, including UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin, Paris Saint-Germain's and European Club Association (ECA) chief Nasser Al-Khelaifi, La Liga president Javier Tebas, and more than 20 senior officials from the ECA, continental leagues, supporters' groups and footballers' associations. They all said they remain firmly against the Super League plan.

Former Bayern Munich footballer and ex-FC Bayern München AG executive chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge addressed the ESL as follows: “In football, you need to realize when the game is lost, and your game is lost forever”. -Al-Khelaifi of Paris Saint-Germain described the attempts of Super League's representative Bernd Reichart to reopen dialogue as "as if it were a broken record", stating that "football is not a legal contract, but a social contract. You have to respect the fans".

A manifesto for the proposed resurrection was published on 9 February 2023, stating the league would be a multi-divisional competition with promotion and relegations, with places being awarded "based on merit". The manifesto was met with criticism from the European Club Association, Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional president Javier Tebas, and others, with the chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association stating "the walking corpse that is the European Super League twitches again."

Two weeks after the manifesto was made public, on 23 February, the UK government announced that an "independent regulator" would be appointed, as was recommended by a 2022 fan-led review, whose mandate would be to "protect English football's cultural heritage." Among the regulator's explicit tasks shall be to stop "English clubs from joining closed-shop competitions, which are judged to harm the domestic game," in a clear reference to the European Super League. The Premier League stated, in response, that it is "vital" the regulator's actions do not lead to any "unintended consequences" that could affect the PL's "global appeal and success."

In Spain, in the same month, veteran sports-journalist Alfredo Relaño wrote an editorial in El País, discussing the league presented in 2022 by Bernd Reichart. Relaño opined that "it would be far from easy to replace" the European club competitions UEFA has been organizing since 1954, even if the European court would decide in favor of ESL.