The last 48 hours have been wild
European Super League
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What is there to think about at this stage?
Not much to decide. Probably not wanting to break Perez tonight the good news of them leavingIt doesn't matter, without EPL clubs the project is dead.
He's not wrong about the ffp thing. City will continue to piss all over it, now even more so as they are the new Uefa darling.
financial fair play has to be implemented, football is far from saved
This leaves a sour taste...
https://www.mundodeportivo.com/futb...rada.html?facet=amp&__twitter_impression=true
UEFA offered them money to pull out. So in the end they got their goal, more cash. Rats.
https://www.mundodeportivo.com/futb...rada.html?facet=amp&__twitter_impression=true
UEFA offered them money to pull out. So in the end they got their goal, more cash. Rats.
I just want to say, Bruno Fernandes is an absolute legend.
Amen.
Yeah, that's disgusting. But they've burnt so many bridges that we can turn this against them.
Also, Real Madrid have been fecked over, so that's some small consolation.
Seriously, this is how you become a United legend. Winning trophies only gets you so far.
Fake news. Mundodeportivo is a sh*t source.
This really is the part that puzzles me and makes me suspicious that there is still a missing clue. Are we really supposed to believe that the most powerful men in the world failed to hire people who could foresee this reaction? My grandma could have predicted the backlash, and she's dead!
If they bring it down to 4 teams, they can make it a friendly tournament over summer! Win-win!I'd have quite liked the SL to limp on (theoretically) with just the bankrupt Spanish and Italian clubs. But meh. Seems like Milan are already out and Atletico will definitely fold tomorrow.
Real, Inter, Juve and Barca the only ones left.
Anything to prolong Perez's misery.
“Levy thanks the fans for presenting their considered opinions that he definitely did not ask for and was fully prepared to ignore if they had not been vocal enough.”
What a pathetic statement.
I wonder if the last team left after the others have pulled out will have loads of extra stuff to sort out, like being the last one left at a party having to clear everything up.
Imagine there's some weird legal disclaimer that says there has to be a minimum of one team in at any time, so someone is just forever stuck in it.
Imagine there's some weird legal disclaimer that says there has to be a minimum of one team in at any time, so someone is just forever stuck in it.
UEFA seeing Spanish football clubs as the real enemy is a fascinating point to make.
Theyve bribed us and not the rest.
Perez at this minute:
Yeah, they're not sorry, and this isn't over, not by a long chalk.
Ours is the most dry. Quite telling.
UEFA have got most of the other recent changes right that everyone from the UK and Ireland panned when they were announced. The expanded Euros was a real winner, suddenly making the prospect of qualifying for the finals a possibility for a far greater range of countries. The Nations League was a winner, providing further competitive internationals and some nee silverware.
I’m interested to see how this new version of the CL feels. Football tends to be very conservative with its tournament formats. I’m sure the Proper Footballing Men will lampoon it, but it has the potential to provide something for people to get their teeth stuck into. Swiss systems always tend to provide interesting matches throughout and an exciting finish by their very nature.
Dreams can’t be buy.
Credit to our players who made their displeasure known within the club too. I've seen Bruno, Maguire, Shaw, Mata and De Gea cited in particular.
There could be many elements to it. Maybe they fully expected backlash from organizations and fans but all the government talk may have truly scared them.
Could also be that these American owners were just completely blinded by greed and all the others club in fear of missing out joined the project.
More facts will be coming out in the next months what happened behind the scenes. That is my expectation anyway.
Woodward gone, comfort league in shambles....next up, forcing the glazers to sell
Better financial fair play for them maybe, not every other club in a dozen or more countries who'd be blown out of the water.
And it was definitely the first step to a move away from Uefa, franchises maybe, etc.
He (we) can spin it any way they want.
Same as United. Well at least they're not fecking trying to lie to us through the gritted teeth. Anyway, I bet FSG and Glazers are absolutely livid with this now. They actually thought they'd be able to franchise football. Really don't understand the fans at all.
Man, people need to keep this energy for when we have people in the ground. Light a fire under the arse of these Yanks.
Also, apparently Maguire organised the uprising. No official statements but I am inclined to believe and we better finish this season on a real high now.
Also, apparently Maguire organised the uprising. No official statements but I am inclined to believe and we better finish this season on a real high now.
Yep, we need to seize this momentum and somehow get them out altogether. They're not going to stop at this.
Better than the Spurs one.
I went on the Real Madrid sub-reddit and more than half of their fans on there were at least receptive to the Super League, and at best cheerleading for it. I went onto the Barcelona sub-reddit and was happily surprised to see that they were more or less unanimous in the rejection of the ESL.
Better late than never
I've never been involved in a long thread like this. I am going to kind of miss it......work output dropped but football survived. Not going to lie but I was surprised how emotional all this made me.
Cheers, mates.
Cheers, mates.
I'm guessing that's related to the stories about UEFA looking at a private equity firm investing billions of Euros into the Champions League, right? Coincidentally, that firm was also English.
Oh shit
They've been working on their superleague idea for years and it was one of the biggest fiasco in the history of football, we're not going to see that anytime soon. I really disagree with this "it's bound to happen" speech. It's not.
So can we talk about the game against Burnley now?
Surely a Netflix documentary now. What a crazy 72 hours. Never experienced anything quite like it -- in football at least. A failed coupd'etat.