European Super League

Do you want the ESL to happen?


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TheReligion

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What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
Perez chatting shite into the early hours of the morning?
 

JPRouve

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They need to educate themselves with the mindset of British and European sports fans.
The people leading it were Europeans, they are well educated but were just greedier.
 
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What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
Government saying they'll get involved. You might have the best lawyers but they play within the rules i.e. laws.

You rewrite the rules and it doesn't matter you have the best players if someone comes to a sword fight with a bazooka.

The people leading it were Europeans, they are well educated in were just greedier.
Yeah but it was the English clubs that broke this whole thing. So if the Yanks knew their audience, they would have known this would never fly.
 

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What an embarrassment for these clubs. Multi billion dollar companies acting like complete amateurs.
 

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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.
Yep, they've set the idea back by decades.

They've thrown away the plan they were working on for years, burned bridges with other clubs including each other, lost authority and leverage with UEFA/FIFA and botched things so badly that clubs will be very slow to sign up to a similar fiasco again.

And that's without taking into account any actual measures that will be put in place to prevent something like this happening any time soon.
 

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What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
I think they got immense pressure from the sponsors as sponsors don't like negativity. Some chose to go public like Liverpool's
and I would guess many more showed their discontent privately. That's what hits the clubs most.
 

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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.
From what I have read this was led by Perez and another Madrid banker. They managed to convince Woodward and the Italians who are of course bankrupt. Liverpool joined United and City and Chelsea were the last to join. Arsenal did not want to be left behind and Levy wanted to join by inviting himself.
The PT firm was the one used by Theresa May. Now you know why it was such a disaster in their PR.
 

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What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
The first clubs announcing that they weren't going to join and then the subsequent clubs declining offers.
 

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What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
They anticipated pushback from the fans, but I think they severely underestimated the sheer scale of public outcry that this would generate. It was bound to trigger sponsors to run for the hills. I don’t think the govt taking a tough stance helped either.
 

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What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
The fans knocked down the first domino. The rest then began to fall.
 

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Government saying they'll get involved. You might have the best lawyers but they play within the rules i.e. laws.

You rewrite the rules and it doesn't matter you have the best players if someone comes to a sword fight with a bazooka.
Ah, yes, I forgot the most powerful deterrent of them all. I have to agree.
 

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Yep, they've set the idea back by decades.

They've thrown away the plan they were working on for years, burned bridges with other clubs including each other, lost authority and leverage with UEFA/FIFA and botched things so badly that clubs will be very slow to sign up to a similar fiasco again.

And that's without taking into account any actual measures that will be put in place to prevent something like this happening any time soon.
Very well stated here.

New Coke was a fart in a pool compared to this.
 

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So as far as attempted mutinies and coups go. Was this one of the worst in history?
 

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What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
Fans reaction - esp. on Twitter & The FA meeting Boris
 

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I for one feel bad for Mourinho. He gave his life as a Martyr for football, and within the next day it all went back to normal. :lol:
 

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What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
They got off to a bad start right away. It was supposed to have 15 founding clubs. Without Bayern and PSG it already became harder to sell.
 

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I for one feel bad for Mourinho. He gave his life as a Martyr for football, and within the next day it all went back to normal. :lol:
We all won but Spurs seem to have come out on top from these past few days. Imagine if they beat City now as well :lol:.
 

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I haven’t had this many crashes in this site in a while.

It would be interesting to see the analytics of this site over the past 48 hours.