Gary Neville for PM.
European Super League
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Does anyone have a video of Neville? He's probably just saying what we're all thinking.
What bollocks. I can only think you have not actually watched him on Sky, his passion and honesty are incontestible.
Hate this and hate the concept, but Sky acting so scandalised and upset after their own heavy involvement in the current state of football as such a money driven machine can do one. They're just panicking they'll be losing some of their cut
Too drastic for football and made during very sensitive moments of pandemic crisis.
Many things feels just unsettling with this idea.
Many things feels just unsettling with this idea.
I would pay to hear what Fergie thought of this. If he still had big influence at the club then I can't see us being involved. Football is a game for the people, local working class is where it started.
These cocks know nothing about it but have all the power. We're a disgrace and the writing has been on the wall for our club for the past 8 years.
These cocks know nothing about it but have all the power. We're a disgrace and the writing has been on the wall for our club for the past 8 years.
'I don't like them and they don't like me, but'
The man's a fecking hero.
That would never happen, as the national associations and UEFA would be completely opposed. The Champions League and Europa League already exist for competition across national borders. This would be very different: the breakaway clubs would have to resign from UEFA and go it alone, leaving their national leagues.
Agree 100%
Spot on. I’ve never been so ashamed of my club.
All the fortune and fame this league has brought us and we are willing to rip up our ties to it just to line the pockets of owners.
I think this is me done with football.
This. People need to calm down and take an outside perspective of the situation.
The move would be to make the PL an 18 or 16 team league, which what UEFA wanted at one stage anyway!
The biggest luddite attitude to change is the belief it is also needed and always good.
Feel for Ole then, but there's absolutely no chance that he doesn't know about this.
No one sees a problem, I don't really understand your tone here. I simply gave you the different outcomes and the reason why residents often aren't massively against those stadiums.
Wrexham statement: "Despite the club's two 4-0 victories this week, we can confirm we will not be seeking membership to the newly uncovered Super League"
Good banter from Wrexham
And even so, this proposal takes everything that's bad about UEFA and cranks it up to 11.
It's like you have a cold, and then you say 'ah I'm sick anyway so let's take a bath in ionising radiation'.
Without the lure of Champions League football revenue, and replacing that with a guaranteed income would be a) great for the Glazers and b) shit for the quality /investment in our side
You mean when basketball teams tank their performance for a draft spot
Now some little #### pipe up and tell me the Glazers are not scum.
I don't like the idea of this league, but as you say Sky have driven the money grabbing culture.
Sky as in who? Neville? He's not Sky. He works for them currently, but he's a football man through and through.
am I right though that there is no cap on what players get paid? so the money saved in one way goes in another. I think the top QBs get way more than most PL players but I could be wrong
You only have to look in this thread to see there’s some people that are for it. Most likely people that have never set foot in a football stadium.
It’s a joke. Would make the main leagues completely irrelevant.
Not Sheffield, but definitely a Spurs or a Athletico or a City who will pump in the oil money to win the non Super League competitions.
Yep! All 3 clubs should hang their heads in shame.
One thing I will say about his comments though is when he said that he thought better of Liverpool people than this. This isn't anyone from Liverpool (the city) making this decision. This is a statement of pure greed by our American owners.
Don't really have an opinion with what little we know.
I'm quite confident that if it does happen, regardless of how much we don't like it, we'll all watch it though.
I'm quite confident that if it does happen, regardless of how much we don't like it, we'll all watch it though.
This is heartbreaking, I'll probably stop watching football alltogether if this happens...
Well said - ban Mansour. Glazers out
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Every single organisation criticising this is the biggest hypocrite going. They're all fecking money obsessed, including Sky Sports. That said, haven't the changes UEFA are proposing been framed as a cash grab too? And one that protects the elite clubs? It seems theres just multiple shit shows happening here, all the same time. And it all involves self interest.
Being American has a lot to do with this in fairness. They’re trying to turn this into an NFL style closed shop that where the owners can make (even more) buckets of cash. It’s pure Americana.
They break away I’m out of this 100%.
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Not often I agree with Gary Neville, but on this occasion, I have too, it’s a fecking disgrace, they don’t give a shit about the fans.
I’m embarrassed my club is involved, I will never attend another game, if this greed fest goes ahead.
I’m embarrassed my club is involved, I will never attend another game, if this greed fest goes ahead.
And Invested in the Salford City project that is currently buying their way towards the Premier League.
Indeed. Football is full of hypocrites.
Go away with your conspiracy bollocks. Neville is and always will be a Manchester United man.
What you are talking about isn't fairness but equality which isn't how football has ever worked, football has never been fair. Two cities with vastly different populations can't operate with the same budgets unless you artificially create equality which isn't fair for the one that is bigger and wealthier. To be clear I like US sports and their socialist() structure but it's based on varsity teams and the fact that they essentially get the best young players for free while barely spending resources on their developments, professional sports in the US are a business for billionaires and easy way to make hundreds of millions per year. So it's important for them to have an equalitarian system in a closed league because that's where the excitement come from the fact that the worst team can climb the ranks by adding the best rookies to their teams.
But my problem is with the PL and UEFA talking about fairness in their statements? So how is it fair to have a 'European CL' when some nations are regarded as more deserving of spots than others? How is it fair that City can have oil owners but not Newcastle? My problem is that these entities are crying about 'fairness' when their actions have only shown that they don't give a shit about it. My biggest hope is that this Super League doesn't happen but it spurns UEFA and the rest into real change. I'm really only criticising the 'response' from the various authorities about this and laughing about how they have had chances to affect fairness but have done jack shit and are now crying at those going against them.
Edit: I meant to say that I do agree with your point that I was off the mark in my branding of my point and its general ideals. I just hate UEFA and seeing them cry foul using this language amuses me.
The point is that we have been here before with people up in arms about change in football. Senior English footballing stakeholders have a terrible track record in supporting the development of the elite game. If it was up to England, there would have been no World Cup, have been no Euros, have been no European club competitions.
Don't give a shit mate. He'd say the same if Salford City didn't exist.