European Super League

Do you want the ESL to happen?


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Foxbatt

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I was thinking about this before. How is possible that an agreement is broken so easily without further consequences? The lawyers must have prepared some very serious compensations for that case. It's either that, or what has happened was a completely unpredictable scenario that has caught everyone by surprise.
I think they never expected the fans, the media, the Governments, and even Prince William to get involved so strongly. Once the Governments got involved the clubs that left can say it is void ab initio and leave without any compensations.
 

Walters_19_MuFc

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What a day this has been so far, especially when I was fearing the worse a couple of days back.

ESL gone - Check
Woody gone - Check
Glazers gone - In progress
 

Eckers99

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Be piss funny when Leicester, Everton, Leeds, West Ham, Wolves and Southampton take the 6 spots instead.
 

justboy68

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What a complete farce this thing has been. Shows just how out of touch these total morons who run these clubs are. It would be amazing if the 50+1 rule could somehow come in off the back of this. If it's ever going to happen now is the time with this momentum.

Feck off Woodward you rat! Feck off Glazer scum!
 

bosnian_red

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Why does he keep saying the current system doesn't work? What doesn't work? Spending 150m on Dembele, Coutinho, Griezmann etc and failing constantly? Giving players 500k a week when you can't afford to do it? No shit. The clubs that are in trouble are the clubs that were out of control like Barca, Madrid and Juve. They are the ones who will be fecked and they are the ones who can't survive. Let them die. feck them.
 

lex talionis

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I’m proud of every one of you here and all clubs supporters across the country.

Today we are all United.
 

spiriticon

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Why does he keep saying the current system doesn't work? What doesn't work? Spending 150m on Dembele, Coutinho, Griezmann etc and failing constantly? Giving players 500k a week when you can't afford to do it? No shit. The clubs that are in trouble are the clubs that were out of control like Barca, Madrid and Juve. They are the ones who will be fecked and they are the ones who can't survive. Let them die. feck them.
Exactly. It doesn't work only because Barca and Real have terrible accountants.
 

The Irish Connection

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So, it seems like people decided that proxy battles between Russia, Qatar, China and Saudi Arabia on the football pitch is better than having an ESL. That's fine by me, but I hope people realize what they're rallying against.

I for one am not happy about United, Real Madrid and Barcelona becoming irrelevant clubs because they can't really compete against nation state levels of wealth and excess. Know that financial fair play is well and truly dead because of what has transpired over the past year or two. A billion for Qatar is nothing - a rounding error in their oil revenues. A billion for Barcelona is the difference between bankruptcy and survival as a football club.

If anything, I'd welcome our Saudi overlords if they chose to take over United. I hope you do too, otherwise what awaits is just a slow fade to obscurity.
Yep, City and psg are a big reason why this shitstorm happened.
 

Slops

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Big respect for Chelsea and City starting this domino effect. We were never going to withdraw otherwise
I dunno. They tried to pull the same shit as everyone else.

I feel like the clubs that jumped from the doomed project earliest are just trying to earn a bit of good will from doing so. They're as complicit in this whole disaster as every other club involved.
 

Gasolin

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I was thinking about this before. How is possible that an agreement is broken so easily without further consequences? The lawyers must have prepared some very serious compensations for that case. It's either that, or what has happened was a completely unpredictable scenario that has caught everyone by surprise.
Football people are often amateurish despite the size of their business. At the end of the day, they are just a massive size SME. It's very possible they were not that good.
 

UnofficialDevil

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I'm not anti Scottish, I just wanted Moyes out.
I dunno. They tried to pull the same shit as everyone else.

I feel like the clubs that jumped from the doomed project earliest are just trying to earn a bit of good will from doing so. They're as complicit in this whole disaster as everyone else.
They are yes. But they are also the ones that made this fall apart.
 

utdalltheway

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oh yeah, feck the Spanish courts.
I mean, cmon, how did they side with Perez? I sense something's rotten in Madrid.
And it's not Juan Carlos, cos he fcuked off to the ME.
 

RedPed

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Perez isn't giving up! :lol:

I seriously don't know what else they can do to make this a reality.
Surely he must understand that given the events of the past 48 hours, no English club with any sense will ever go anywhere near something like that again?
 

Zehner

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Perez isn't giving up! :lol:

I seriously don't know what else they can do to make this a reality.

So..

Barca get 220m for Neymar, waste 280m on Coutinho and Dembele, then raise a loan to sign a player whose position is already occupied by the best player in the world for 120m. Madrid rebuilds its stadium for almost 800m then wastes 140m on a player with one year left on his contract. Juve signs a 33 year old for 100m and probably pays him around 50m per season. T Luckily there's Perez to identify the root of all these problems: The CL simply isn't profitable enoug!
 

Rightnr

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So..

Barca get 220m for Neymar, waste 280m on Coutinho and Dembele, then raise a loan to sign a player whose position is already occupied by the best player in the world for 120m. Madrid rebuilds its stadium for almost 800m then wastes 140m on a player with one year left on his contract. Juve signs a 33 year old for 100m and probably pays him around 50m per season. T Luckily there's Perez to identify the root of all these problems: The CL simply isn't profitable enoug!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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Big respect for Chelsea and City starting this domino effect. We were never going to withdraw otherwise
They are probably the worse. The rats are the first to jump the boat. The only ones to be praised are the ones that didnt go with this abomination from the start: bayern, dortmund, PSG and others that were proposed.

Chelsea and city wanted in as the ones that remained longer in bur shit their pants the first.
 

4bars

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So..

Barca get 220m for Neymar, waste 280m on Coutinho and Dembele, then raise a loan to sign a player whose position is already occupied by the best player in the world for 120m. Madrid rebuilds its stadium for almost 800m then wastes 140m on a player with one year left on his contract. Juve signs a 33 year old for 100m and probably pays him around 50m per season. T Luckily there's Perez to identify the root of all these problems: The CL simply isn't profitable enoug!
Beyond stupid. As rummeneige said, costs are the problem, not the revenue
 

UnofficialDevil

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I'm not anti Scottish, I just wanted Moyes out.
They are probably the worse. The rats are the first to jump the boat. The only ones to be praised are the ones that didnt go with this abomination from the start: bayern, dortmund, PSG and others that were proposed.

Chelsea and city wanted in as the ones that remained longer in bur shit their pants the first.
Yes Bayern and PSG do deserve praise. But I still applaud Chelsea and City for making this fall apart.
 

Manny

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Perez isn't giving up! :lol:

I seriously don't know what else they can do to make this a reality.
Perez is one of those egotistical old rich pricks who constantly looking to leave a legacy.

Winning feck knows how many CLs wasn't enough for him, he got involved in this thinking he'd be remembered fondly for reshaping the entire game.