It wasn't our idea!
Barcelona took a giant step back from the failed attempt to split football down the middle just 48 hours after signing up as founding fathers.
Now they can return to their €730million (£629m) short-term debt problem – one which would have been solved in one fell swoop had the Super League plan not been such ill-concocted fantasy.
El Mundo Deportivo's front page on Tuesday screamed '€350m (£302m) now' regarding the promised windfall upfront payment from the scheme's American investors. Today's front page wound things down to English clubs 'undoing Florentino's project'.
Those words are important going forward – if this is remembered as the Real Madrid president's brainchild then it will help Barcelona and Atletico Madrid put as much distance from it as possible.
On Tuesday night Gerard Pique tweeted enthusiastically about football fans having won the day. He also made fun of Real Madrid president Perez who appeared all guns blazing on Spanish television on Monday only to then pull out of a planned radio appearance on Tuesday.
Some criticised Pique for only speaking after the deal had fallen apart but silence had been Barcelona's strategy from the start.
This was a scheme the club's president Joan Laporta had signed up to because his predecessor Josep Bartomeu had laid the foundations and because for all that Laporta didn't like it, it was a potential way out of the debt spiral.
It's no secret he didn't like it. He admitted having serious reservations about it when he spoke to Sportsmail in December.
In an interview carried out at the end of last year Laporta was asked about the rumours of a closed-shop league from which teams could not be relegated and the effect removing meritocracy from football's biggest competition might have.
'We're of the opinion that you can destroy the essence of football,' was his unequivocal response.
Asked outright if he was in favour of a Super League he said: 'Above all, I'm in favour of football. It's the spectacle that, yes, has developed as a business, but is also to bring people together, communities; it's part of life. So I am in favour of that.'
Laporta's doubts over the idea of a closed-shop Super League were also expressed to Spanish media. He told Spanish radio Cadena Cope: 'You kill the business of football and you lose the nice relationship with the lesser-known teams. They will have to argue their case very well to convince me.'
The fact that Barcelona signed up suggests the case was made to him. An immediate injection of money is certainly what the club needed.
El Mundo Deportivo's back page on Tuesday headlined: 'Without the Super League there is no plan B'. Many Barca supporters saw the prospect of a taking a share of the estimated £3.03billion, set against future broadcasting revenue, as a way out of the financial mire.
The fans' response is also how Barcelona claim they will now walk away from this with no penalties. They say their being part of it was totally conditioned by the club's members ratifying it by ballot at the next AGM.
Atletico Madrid find themselves in a similar position. They let Real Madrid president Perez do the talking, they will not let him take the blame or the commiserations from those who see him as the innovator Spanish football needed, and who was let-down by his co-conspirators.
Like Barcelona and Real Madrid, Atletico will have to get back to thinking of other ways to ease their financial woes.
Their new stadium is at least built but not paid for. The club went into debt with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim to pay for their move from the old Vicente Calderon and the debt of around €200m (£172m) owed to Slim's company Inbursa will not be paid off until around 2028.
They have football's highest-paid coach and a wage bill that stood at €348m (£300m) before the pandemic forced cuts.
The antidote to all this would be to win the league this season. LaLiga's title race this year is as exciting as it has been in years. Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid can all take the crown. All three have also had their fair share of Champions League glory over the past decade.
That's another reminder that they wanted to rip it all up for money, not because it was no longer any fun.