European Super League
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This is absolutely surreal. This feels like a horrible nightmare. I've seen United go through up and downs. We've had good years and bad years, embarrassing defeats and magnificent successes. But this right now feels like the absolute worst I have felt about this club. This is a horrible idea and I would have little interest in seeing their progression through what is a glorified exhibition tournament.
Please, those leagues are dead without those teams. Make no mistake, how many low league teams have profited off United and co?
United will tell him he’ll get 500k a week in the new super league and he’ll sign a new deal
Wonder if we get to stay up 
I bet they have the good pastries at those meetings. You know the ones... the *really* good ones.
Aye, this is dreamland for them.
I haven't defended the Glazers, you're wrongfully associating the SL with it being pro Glazer, lets stop that association immediately. The SL is it's own thing, not a pro and anti Glazer movement.
And I'm referring to the club tweets that have apparently been put out
One of the worst parts of this all is the fact the glazers are now certain to stay at the club long term due to the money involved in this European league. Hopefully the Premier league and Uefa blow this competition from starting.
They will join.
We’ve earned the right to play against Newcastle and we run the risk of not playing them every year just like they do with us.
Now we’re guaranteed to play Madrid every season. You lose the magic of drawling them in the competition once in a blue moon and you get the same match played numerous times.
El Clasico got fecking boring during that period between 2010-2012 where they played each other nearly every week, this will too.
I get your starry eyed optimism of the best of the best playing but it’s artificial and vapid and wrong and eventually the honeymoon period wears off and there’s nothing to show for it. Except maybe when we consistently finish bottom and he top clubs decide to boot us out and invite someone more appealing because it’s dog eat dog.
Disgraceful.
But in the end i don't think its going to happen though.
But in the end i don't think its going to happen though.
Oh I don’t think the founders will get relegated. It’ll be like U.K. at the Eurovision. The other 5 will be at risk.
Guess when we won the European World Cup in Japan that was a friendly as well. Hope you didn't get too excited, you know, friendly and all that.
Yeah, of course they will.
I mean, if all clubs have to submit to the Eurovision as well then I think we could be onto something here
Right...so you mock the negative sentiment here yet you haven't even bothered to read the entire statement yourself.
For anyone wondering what the fuss is all about. THIS. IS. IT.
This Super Plastic League is going to absolutely wipe off football's history.
It's been confimed that any participating club will be sent to the lowest division. So maybe you're being a bit ridiculous.
Nobody's asked the important question
Will United be banned from FIFA 22?
Will United be banned from FIFA 22?
McSauce does a fantastic Sweet Caroline I believe.
Says who? Why can't the format change in a season or so once it's established? We should just worry about winning it instead of worrying about being bored of playing world class teams to be honest, strange and silly argument.
Only if the player unionised. They can stop this.
It's on the app now. A joke of a statement
Every word sounds like (1) it's happening and (2) they don't give a feck.
My Grandad watched them pre war, my Dad since the Babes, me since relegation.
Sure some will say it's just a game ...
Narrator: He wasn’t
Well the next couple years are gonna be interesting. A world cup in fecking Qatar and a cash grab league.
I think the whole reason for this is to stop Mancity and PSG from happening again. FA and UEFA can cry foul but they let State own football clubs and asked other teams to compete with them. This was bound to happen.
I assume a second tier competition will arrive in due course. With the amount of money involved, it will be ratified after some hue and cry from both FA and UEFA
I assume a second tier competition will arrive in due course. With the amount of money involved, it will be ratified after some hue and cry from both FA and UEFA
Cheers!
Yeah, I'm done with football if this goes ahead. My dad switched off from anything football related the day Utd floated on the stock exchange, I thought that was extreme but I get his point now.
I have no idea when you've had a little rant about what I might think, just having a discussion here and I've said nothing about what I think.
I've tried to think about this from both perspectives and form as rational an opinion as I can. I've considered my own reasons for this not being a good thing and they don't include a complete lack of investment. I expect we would be able to invest more than we end up doing, but going far and competing in this competition, as well as the continued domestic competition (bans etc would change the dynamic of this completely though) will still be a thing. We have spent money and a good amount at that, even if it isn't as much as it could have been and even if it has been spent poorly.
Please leave the straw mans and assumptions though, there is no reason we can't play devil's advocate, discuss, debate without being dramatic and bringing up digs about our principles for watching the sport. So dramatic.
Just read it, seems fine. Massive over reaction on here as usual
I mean... okay. But for the time being...
Oh, come on. Surely you must be paid for this.
This whole model is made by Americans for American consumer consumption. It's basically the NBA/NFL model for football.
It's so obvious that I think you're trolling or have ulterior motives.
Were you ecstatic when you heard we were playing Burnley earlier? Me neither.
The reason the CL has glamour ties is because of two things: their scarcity and because a lot is riding on it. It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get there and everything hinges on the result. What is riding on the same fixture when it happens every year and both teams sit 7th and 9th in a league they won’t win?
Congrats on learning how to Google. If you bothered doing any actual research whatsoever you would see that winning the Gilbraltan league earned them a qualifying spot for the Europa League, where they lost to Rangers.
Not dissimilar to Midtjylland, who you tried to mock being in the Champions League, having to get through two qualification rounds before deservedly entering the group stage this season.
TL;DR - you haven't got a fecking clue what you are talking about.