Mesut Özil: "Kids grow up dreaming to win the World Cup and the Champions League - not any Super League"
European Super League
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Feel the same as a Chelsea fan. I'd be absolutely fine with relegation at this point.
The way I remember it is that the city of Seattle didn't want to shell out hundreds of millions for a new venue and the OKC owners only bought them because the previous owners didn't want to pay either. With the state Old Trafford is in who's to say the same couldn't happen in 10 or 15 years?
Because that's why franchises move in US sport, to exploit local markets. Stadiums are exploited to the fullest and generates revenues while local fanbases bring huge commercial revenues, they don't move just for the sake of moving.
Why would we get better signings?
agents will just increase the price. Do you think Haalands price wouldn’t suddenly sneak up to 150m+
the second thing is the owners will just bank more cash
Had holes in the roof last time there were fans. What a sad, sad time for football. Kick them all out of domestic leagues
A poster here said one of the reasons for something like this is United have only faced Ronaldo a few times since he left and this would ensure it happened every year. You realise how shite we've been in most of that time and haven't deserved to be playing at the top table yeah? You earn the right, you don't have it written into law you're entitled to it just because you're rich.
Edwin Van Der Sar may give them the longest middle finger in football history if they come asking.
Because Rangers are a bigger team than Burnley. Most of England won't watch Burnley vs Sheff, but most of the UK will watch Rangers vs Newcastle. Marginal probably but a bigger game
keep it fresh in people's memories
Eventually it all comes down to economics of it , I believe Clubs would come up with some sort of understanding with UEFA with these super league clubs getting greater share of the spoils .
Domestic league FA aren't the immediate target for these Clubs ,Super league and Domestic leagues can easily coexist.
It's champions league which faces existential crisis.
I look forward to seeing the undertaker keeping nets and Ric flair managing woooooh
Wow, that's a hard listen? Poor guy.. sounds like I feel.
Hope Sir Alex and Bobby tell United to take their names off the stands.
On the basis the Twattish Twelve threatened legal action because they've already got 4 billion lined up (as if we didn't know their motives before?!), Fergie and Charlton could surely take legal action if needed and argue United are using their names to profit from. Doubt either signed anything?
Every hour of the last 20 has got progressively worse for me. I keep thinking it can't get worse but it does. I've never been so angry and sad at the same time. Right now (and this audio clip maybe pushed feelings to the forefront) but I am absolutely heartbroken.
I want to see Messi push Perez' face into Pogba's asscrack.
Valencia condemn The Super League
Valencia have condemned the super league as well.
https://www.valenciacf.com/en/artic...fd95LV87KHLh4WOOt1T3TdFCwZTIslq1ORRXQRvJTE5AM
https://www.valenciacf.com/en/artic...fd95LV87KHLh4WOOt1T3TdFCwZTIslq1ORRXQRvJTE5AM
I’m sure they will win fans over when they announce that teams can have 5 subs in this competition 
Nah, you can't have teams in 2 concurrent leagues, and expect them to put focus into the one that brings them less financial reward. It's an existential threat to the domestic leagues too, just slightly delayed.
I’m sure they will win fans over when they announce that teams can have 5 subs in this competition
Budweiser sub of the game.
Do UEFA have clean hands? Absolutely not. The moment they started expanding the champions league, they essentially sacrificed its integrity for the money. Now they’re shocked that the big clubs have banded together to create a super league all for the money. feck UEFA, they helped create this mess.
Instead of expanding an already bloated champions league how about reducing it so that it’s only 2 or 3 clubs in the big leagues who qualify, with the rest going to an expanded knockout only UEFA cup. The quality of competition in both would increase and it would put to death the “top 4 trophy.”
Instead of expanding an already bloated champions league how about reducing it so that it’s only 2 or 3 clubs in the big leagues who qualify, with the rest going to an expanded knockout only UEFA cup. The quality of competition in both would increase and it would put to death the “top 4 trophy.”
Any of you guys defending this need to watch this and have your head given a wobble it's a disgrace.
So genuinely only bad news and bad things attached to the SL, literally not a crumb of positivity?
With the almost universal condemnation of this idea I'm hopeful this might somehow get thrown out.
However, the damage is already done to us as a club given that we were one of the 12 who decided this was a good idea, the only way I see any possibility of damage control is if there's widespread condemnation from the players/manager (not gonna happen) or the Glazers go (sadly, unlikely too)
However, the damage is already done to us as a club given that we were one of the 12 who decided this was a good idea, the only way I see any possibility of damage control is if there's widespread condemnation from the players/manager (not gonna happen) or the Glazers go (sadly, unlikely too)
Yet, they don’t seem to be certain it can go through.
https://www.firstpost.com/sports/ju...per-league-project-will-take-off-9543281.html
It is more complicated than just saying "well, look at the NBA". That league (as well as the NHL, MLB and NFL) have been run by cartels since its inception, and have never been run differently. It's how the leagues were created in the first place. The draft system, the playoffs, the entire shebang is created with profits and cartels in mind. European football (or football in general) wasn't created this way.
Nevermind the fact that if a team becomes unprofitable (?), they just move it somewhere else, which has happened plenty of times.
I hate Arsenal and Spurs, but even I would be quite sad if they suddenly became "Arsenal Rome" and "Lisbon Hotspur".
maybe we don't know. we don't know if they will be more expensive than Cl games. but equally, you could argue they will likely bet better than most CL games, which are generally dire to till the knockout stages.
I wouldn't say that equates to a slap in the phase to fans. Better quality opposition equates to a rise in price. like season tickets go up when teams get promoted to the PL, or even in most cases Div 1 to championship.
Of course, i may change my mind when the ticket price comes out, but currently, everything these clubs are doing is disrespectful to the game, but not to there own fans.
We will need to see how things pan out in the coming weeks and months. If the Super League goes ahead as proposed, that will be it for me. If we are kicked out of the Premier League, it's all over. If we remain in the Premier League, with around 400 million per year basic for six clubs and only a fraction of that for the rest, any semblance of a fair competition is dead. The 'big six' already have a massive financial advantage, but it still isn't enough for them: they want total domination of their domestic leagues and a closed shop in Europe.
This looks really bleak, unless the Super League clubs can be convinced to back down from this lunacy.
Looks like I will finally be rocking up at FC United, fifteen years late and with a massive apology. I will not watch a single minute of any closed shop Super League.
Joan Laporta in January: "I think the European Super League represents everything that is wrong with football. It's all about the money, you lose the essence of the beautiful sport"
Will Laporte change his mind?
They've already been doing it sadly for 20-30 years.
I mean, when was the last time Real and Barca didn't qualify for the CL?
We've been out of it a couple of times, but still UEFA bent the rules so clubs like ourselves who have dropped in performance still had a better chance of qualifying by creating a top 4 qualification route even.
Football has been dying a slow, sh*tty death for about 30 years.
Messi "Time to get ....MESSY!"
fecksake, when will Woodward and the Glazers stop tarnishing the foundations of this football club. Morons the lot of them.
This is the first step if successful towards a permanent move from domestic competition. In 10 years time their weekday competition would be the main weekend competition!
Greater Manchester is around 3 million in a 10 mile radius and the largest urban area outside of London. It's just towns surrounding never merged. The City of Salford used to have over a million in it. So called Manchester (1 in the pic )is just a sliver and was extended into Stockport for the Airport.
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But then it would not be the easy money cash cow that the clubs starting it want it to be. That's the point. This is nothing to do with taking on uefa and making a better competition it's all about making more money for these individuals at the top.