European Super League
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So PSG won the CL?
Well yeah, but what else are you going to do? 12 clubs isn't much though, but if you get 200-300 mill euros to join in I guess there won't be lack of clubs.
me too. Fecking Woodward
Almost a bigger money version of what Ashley has spent the last decade doing at Newcastle, we'll see if many still believe Newcastle fans were asking too much for a bit of investment and ambition when Utd are happily raking it in being bottom half fodder for City and PSG etc
The reason is spelt revenue. They need the top talents for broadcasting revenue for the international games. Money is the decisive factor here, it's all posturing from UEFA at this point.
Ed's favorite books are from Sun Tzu and Machiavelli.
No it doesn't, and no you can't turn the argument around. The 12 clubs want something that would be hugely detrimental to European football, and at worst turn the club I've supported almost my whole life into something I could no longer care about. UEFA wants to stop this. Which means that in this case, and however bad UEFA might be generally, they're in the right and doing the good thing.
This is not Manchester United, same thing I tell myself about City. This is some cnuts who have wormed their way in and infected Manchester United. Manchester United is more than these cnuts murdering football as is Liverpool, Manchester City, Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal. Some good would come from this if all these boards and owners are forced to feck off and the clubs return to normal. I'd rather see my club back in League 1 than see the cnuts behind this stay in power.
So apparently JP Morgan was found with a cargo ship full of cocaine a couple of years ago and nothing came of it. Clearly in this to clean their mo..err, I mean, because they love the sport so much!
feck sake that's rich coming from a guy who plays for PSG. Give me a break Ander, Oil clubs are why this is happening.
Say whatever you want about Sky but this spells it out, pure and simple.
I am sure some will try to justify this but the people running the club are there to extract your €, £ and $, not make your club enjoyable to watch.
Yip. 20 team structure implies their backup plan is a single 20 team home and away league, with a knockout tournament at the end.
Oh god, what happens if they add in a one-legged knockout tournament where every game is played at a neutral ground.
Uniteds owners. Feel like there needs to be a distinction, the club with all its history is being dragged into this.
We ceased being that Manchester United in 2005.
It could get ugly. At the very least, you would expect the clubs who have signed up to be banned from competing next season in any UEFA competition.
Ed Woodward appears to be persona non grata in Europe now too, so you'd expect his position to be untenable if United come grovelling back. Angelli would also be finished.
It is up to players. You either play super league with consenquence (If UEFA are to be believed) or keep playing like you do now.
Nobody says UEFA / FIFA are perfect. But what these club, including ours, are doing is nothing short of stupidity. This is just one step.
Oh, yes they do. It is UEFA and FIFA that are base of those cups. There is also unity from national associations about this subject. So, if super league want to create own World Cup or EuroCup, then they can do that with 20 teams.
There'll always be transitional issues. I can imagine all players 30+ will probably walk away from their current clubs. It'll be some short term pain no doubt.
Oil clubs are welcome and benefit from the new world order.
As much as I hate to say it, Ander is right and should be applauded for speaking out.
I really wish that instead of voting through the new changes, EUFA had announced they were redesigning the system now they don't have to care what these 12 have to say about anything.
Well said. It's all so sad.
YepHe overdid it. The love of the game.
*Joel Glazer is literally the Vice President of the ESL*
But yeah! Fecking Woodward!
When it's the leadership of the club being, you can't say it's just some worms infection. It's takeover.
Not gonna stick the knife in your club fanbase here, but just saying as for us, our fan fought when Glazers take over. Guess we lost, but can't say we didn't try.
That's what I'm thinking too but it seems the ones involved in this new league are sure making every effort to show they are pushing ahead with this thing. If UEFA caves to them in a way you could argue they won even more than if they go off on their own. They re almost quite literally holding people hostage.
On top of that the best teams aren't even in it anyways, Having Arsenal and Spurs in the tournament over the likes of PSG and Bayern says it all about this joke of a project. Honestly winning it won't even prove you're the best team in Europe, pointless from a fan perspective.
Oh yeah, the timing of this is to minimize potential protests but I think there will still be some so that'll be police resources wasted and potentially more covid spread, these people care about nothing but personal gain.
That would be the silver lining, if this was the catalyst to extracting these poisonous owners out of their respective clubs.
Its a football forum so obviously its related to football. The pandemic affects everything.
Bet Jose is so glad to take his payoff and not have to deal with any of this
To be fair to the Italian press, they're just as damning as the French press (who with no clubs yet joined, you might expect this reaction)
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An editorial in sports daily L’Equipe says the Super League members are “traitors”. “If they continue with their project, we will never forgive them," it reads. "We won’t forgive them if they give it up, either. The 12 clubs will remain traitors of a shared ideal for a long time still. They’ve showed they’re ready to kill off European football, its essence, its history and its beauty with their cynicism and greed.”
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An editorial in sports daily L’Equipe says the Super League members are “traitors”. “If they continue with their project, we will never forgive them," it reads. "We won’t forgive them if they give it up, either. The 12 clubs will remain traitors of a shared ideal for a long time still. They’ve showed they’re ready to kill off European football, its essence, its history and its beauty with their cynicism and greed.”
I know pictures aren't really accepted but that's how I imagine him at the minute.Yep
Yes, you can turn the argument around. It doesn't make it so just because you have a set mindset.
There is a bigger picture here that you are clearly failing to see and whilst I certainly am not personally sold on the idea of a Super League, it's all down to UEFA not budging over media rights because they want to keep more of that money to themselves that in the end is generated mainly through the top clubs. Its a game of greed where I'm not sure that there is a "right and good thing" between the two.
Your emotional sentiment is secondary to money no matter what club you support as it has been for more than a decade now with the development of new entities in European football, massively inflated transfer fees, and the increase of players jumping clubs for a better payday. If it took a European Super League for you to wake up and smell the coffee then I'm very sorry for you, but this should hardly be surprising.
I know pictures aren't really accepted but that's how I imagine him at the minute.
What happens when a "founding" team comes 20th and a non-founding team places ahead of them? The founding team remains and the non-founding team loses their place. How can anyone not see this issue?
The even worse part is it'll be heavy, heavy odds-on every season that the every one of the 'Founders' finish above the qualifiers due to the absolutely massive financial disparity they will have created. Ditto for any possible domestic league these teams play in.
The biggest issue though - sporting-wise - is that every domestic league position from 2nd - 17th essentially means the same thing except for varying levels of prize money for the owners. If you have a bad first 10 games domestically, the next 28 are essentially pointless dead rubbers....your domestic season could be over in September.
I started thinking, can this affect a players contract? Is he obliged to just accept to drop the national team, CL, EL and domestic league for this SuperCrapLeague?? Or can this lead to a court decision to void contracts?
I liked this when I saw but...
“All shirts that are surrendered during the amnesty will be donated to local youth groups and humanitarian projects in Africa”
So local groups wear donated shirts - bad
Projects in Africa don’t have footy shirts as a priority.
Also , to be cynical, Grimsby say “*While stocks last”.