Ideja multinacionalne lige klubova Srednje Europe Zvuči kao priča koju se trebalo prekinuti odmah po prekšenom dogovoru o ulasku srpskih klubova. Istupom hrvatskih klubova, svih , odmah. — Zagi
Evo sa wikipedije citat od jednog od glavnih koji su osnivali ligu:
Ten years later, in a 2011 interview for the Serbian newspaper Press, Roman Lisac explained the league's behind the scenes strategy during its nascent stages was actually quite different:
I'm convinced the league would've never been able to survive without Serbian clubs. Getting Crvena zvezda and Partizan to join the league was something that we worked on from day one. However, the situation ten years ago was not that simple. Too much antagonistic post-war politics was still all around us, and it made our task all the more difficult. Everything that smelled of old Yugoslavia caused a lot of resistance both in Croatia and in Serbia. I repeat, the idea of having both Crvena zvezda and Partizan in the league was there from the very beginning, but we avoided talking about it publicly because of politics.[5]