I didn't realise my post said that. The point is why have people not taken a stance on money ruining the game before now? Small clubs have been getting hit financially for years while money at the top has been out of control for years. People didn't really give a shit about that before, but now they apparently do?
European Super League
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Owners are untouchable it seems.
Master Race™
Hahaha
Good. Kick them all out even if means PSG are handed the CL.
They would face massive suits. Not to mention the loss of revenue for not playing the final and semifinal. Cannot see it happening.
Well at least we know that this is not going to affect either of the useless Bristol clubs.
And that is the problem of it all. They can put debt on a club, be greedy as hell, yet it is the club and the fans who suffer. Football has become such a shitty business
Forget Portugal and think of England. 80% of the team is *gone*.
WOW just WOW. Back then the European Cup was a new exciting competition comparable to the Super League concept and United were I believe without checking England's first representatives
David Byrne ?
UEFA and FIFA are a cancer and need reforming/stopping as well. They are only trying to stop this because they will lose money. They dont give a shit about the sport, it's been getting ruined for years under them and they have sat back and done nothing.
The European Cup didn't gut Division 1 of its biggest six teams and effectively have them abandoning it. It isn't comparable.
Eventually the 15 teams will buy their own island and call it Super League Island™ they’ll all feck off from their respective countries and move there
2014:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27652181
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-27775588
2015:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-arrest-of-crew-investigating-qatar-world-cup
2017:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40412928
2018:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44994041
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...black-ops-us-australia-football-a8468391.html
2019:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-qatars-secret-880m-world-cup-payments-to-fifa-p3r5rvw9x
2020:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52197014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_controversies
No argument with that, but this league will kill football as we know it. UEFA/FIFA is a slowly killing it, so there is still time (maybe). The ESL will gut football immediately.
Funny this has happened just as Barcelona's spending was spiralling out of control.
It's not remotely comparable to the Super League concept.
Maybe they told Messi last year to make him stay...
UEFA President: United weren't a big club until Alex Ferguson
People want to bow down to the governing body of a competition which the president thinks we were a tinpot club before SAF even though we had won a European Cup 18 years before SAF?
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People want to bow down to the governing body of a competition which the president thinks we were a tinpot club before SAF even though we had won a European Cup 18 years before SAF?
Gotta say, I'm loving all the meltdown. I'm ready to give it all up, I just want shit to burn down 
Not even close to similar - try again
It’s like New Coke only more shit.
Stop acting like this is some sort of fight against UEFA.
It will be detrimental to all teams not in this League and is for the owners of those clubs to have a closed shop with no fear of relegation. Don't pretend its some crusade to save the game from UEFA.
It could be even more cynical than that. It's a good idea for German and French clubs to wait and see how Serie A, La Liga and the PL deal with their clubs, if they ban them from domestic competitions then there is a chance for wealty club owners to get significantly more money from TVs because the ESL is supposed to be a midweek competition, that means that weekends primetime slots could yield big money. If you are Al Khelaifi, you get Ratcliffe, Pinault, Seydoux and Rybolovlev on the phone and try to find out if they are willing to develop a product for weekends.
I wonder if the clubs in question anticipated level of response from fans. It’s almost unanimously negative.
Honestly? Same. I love chaos and dramaGotta say, I'm loving all the meltdown. I'm ready to give it all up, I just want shit to burn down
I beg to differ, I think he will be having his accountants on speed dial working out how much of the £400m payout he can get for his clients and how to hide it from the taxman. Players may not have been contacted but I will bet my last dollar that the likes of Raiola and Mendes were kept in the loop.
Talk of banning players from international football is just posturing and it will be tied up in litigation for years. It's up to the governments to step in and dial back this corporatization of the poor man's sport by the elite.
Sorry but these comments aren't helping. Sort your shit and have dialogues. Stay out of media.
The drama is amazing - I’m happy to see the chaos. I just hope it amounts to nothing serious in the end.Gotta say, I'm loving all the meltdown. I'm ready to give it all up, I just want shit to burn down
I am not for these proposals. I’m just resigned to them.
Hard to imagine this going down if SAF would have still been at the club, and I am not taking anything away from Ole at all. Just everyone respects SAF the real godfather
Football has stopped making sense
The outrage has nothing to do with UEFA.
I think it would be fascinating to know what these clubs internal data suggested re: fan and player/ex-player response. Did they expect the huge backlash? I am confident they are so out of touch and insulated (especially the American owners) that they just might have had no idea.
99,9% they did. And yet they went ahead with it. The brazenness is something else.
I don’t think there’s a way back. To get to this point of the announcement and breaking away there would have to have been foundations built for years. Contracts signed etc.
There’s no way they go back because of PR because I have no doubt they fully anticipated it.
There’s no way they go back because of PR because I have no doubt they fully anticipated it.
Soccer Bowl.
I want super league. Let's move on from those pointless 3 AM game against Spartak Moscow...
The essence of Champions league is always watching the elite club vs elite club anyway, this is what we want.
The essence of Champions league is always watching the elite club vs elite club anyway, this is what we want.