European Super League

[Dante]

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They're playing 'Celebrate Good Times' on the air right now!

 

[Berbaclass]

Power of people. If you are so many you can defeat anything.

I would not let clubs that easy. Point deduction and banned from next year CL / EL games. There must be concenquences.

Now we need this red club to announce something.

I don’t even know if it is that. Hardly anything has genuinely happened. I few tweets and Gary Neville yesterday then a few people turning up at Stamford Bridge. Seems a bit easy..

 

[Water Melon]

So Chelsea, City and Atletico are pulling out. I hope Boris Johnson does pull the trigger and ownership model in England changes. Roman and the sheikhs have got the message and do not want to lose their money. Where the fook the vice Chairman of ESL is? I hope he is deluded enough to push for his new position till the very end to piss the British public and government truly off.

 

[Relevated]

Woodward and whoever else resigned from their position at uefa are absolutely egg faced now.

 

[esmufc07]

I hope so! Hope this is the beginning of the end for Glazers too but I suspect they will just get everything in a row and go again

Hopefully the damage has been done and the government will be serious in its proposals to look at/reform the ownership of clubs.

 

[laughtersassassin]

Well would you look at that. Fan opinion does matter.

Maybe that'll make some of the quiet people reconsider the Glazers

 

[Mickeza]

It's fallen. The Champions League reforms announced yesterday were coming anyway, they didn't change because of the announcement on Sunday. It's collapsed because it was the pet project of Perez and the American owners, particularly our dear leaders, and the others have backtracked seeing what a load of nonsense it was and how negative the reaction has been.

There’s a story from earlier today about UEFA changing the format and taking out a credit loan on 7bn. This 4.6bn league hasn’t just collapsed in 6 hours from nowhere.

 

[sullydnl]

I believe it is. The big clubs just showed everyone how powerful they are and now will be renegotiating terms with UEFA.

All my opinion of course. Could be bs.

There is literally zero chance this was a negotiating position. They've burned too many bridges, suffered too much reputational damage, thrown away a plan we know they had been working on for years and likely ensured measures will be put in place to guarantee this won't happen again.

It was a genuine attempt at forming a Super League and they botched it.

 

[Drifter]

Remember the 89 who voted for this and the fact that their fantasy league will still be on the Xbox and PS5

 

[Judas]

Hopefully Woodward and the Glazers feck off too, we can dream.

 

[MattofManchester]

I believe it is. The big clubs just showed everyone how powerful they are and now will be renegotiating terms with UEFA.

All my opinion of course. Could be bs.

What I hope this leads to is ownership reform. To stop the excess monopoly. Fans know they have a voice. Time to use it.

 

[mazhar13]

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Dan Roan of the BBC confirms City's exit.

 

[Drainy]

Joel Glazer crying in his bed.

maybe not only have they missed out on the big bucks they were after but potentially devaluing their own shares since the government is threatening to change the rules regarding ownership. Its a pretty massive backfire.

 

[BusbyMalone]

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[Ranchero]

Reportedly Atletico pulling out.

 

[Guy Incognito]

This might sound mad but its bad in the long run that they are pulling out this easy.

If legislation isn't brought in Glazers FSG and co will regroup and do this again in a few years.

The power must be taken from them.

Yep.

Nothing will change unless they bring in legislation.

 

[pseudo_canadian]

Glazers and Woodward out surely? After pulling a stunt like this there is no turning back. Any goodwill that may have been there is lost forever.

 

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[Zapata]

50+1 is a must now.

 

[Gambit]

The cynic in me thinks UEFA have given something in return and this was all a bluff...

Didn't they announce 4.6billion something or other today. Which funnily enough was what the superleague project was originally quoting.

 

[Whiteside '85]

The longer we stay in it, the more idiotic & isolated we will be. Woodward is a buffoon & they’ve seriously miscalculated the backlash. Own up the mistake & get out of our club.

I am heartened by the response of the fans on here.

We know that Ed and the Glazers aren't what Manchester United need
"We are United!" in our contempt for them.

 

[Delano]

We're out.

Now the Glazers can feck off and Perez can play against himself.

 

[Pagh Wraith]

This is just glorious.

 

[JinnerJamie]

Woodward and whoever else resigned from their position at uefa are absolutely egg faced now.

They were never going to be able to go back

 

[golden_blunder]

It's quite bizarre to see people react so positively to this latest Chelsea nonsense and take every bit of news about this literally, getting emotional and not thinking for two seconds.

This Super League was extremely unlikely to happen, at least in the coming two years. Which was blatantly obvious given how amateurish the news was brought into the world, how unprepared everyone involved is at the moment, other than a cheap website there was no infrastructure in place at all. Obviously a club like Chelsea knows this so they can now act like they're taking the moral highground after joining the plan first to put pressure on UEFA - they're a scummy club who owe their success to the ridiculous spending of a shady Russian billionaire. And distgustingly people on here are celebrating this and lapping it up like a bunch of sheep.

The whole Super League is more of a threat and a negotiation position than anything by the big clubs involved. Throw out a generic press release and an amateurish website in the week UEFA is introducing their new CL set-up, create a meda shit storm.

In the meanwhile the UEFA is now being forced to create a lot more funds for the new CL, there's talks of finding investment parters to pump 6-7 billion into the new Champions League.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2...-2bn-deal-with-centricus-to-halt-super-league

"UEFA is in discussions with Centricus Asset Management over a 6 billion-euro ($7.2 billion) financing package to overhaul its flagship soccer tournament and stop plans for a new breakaway Super League, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Switzerland-based sporting body is working with Centricus on a plan to fund a new-look UEFA Champions League tournament, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential information."

I don’t know about that. Ed withdrew United from the ECA and himself from a position on fifa or uefa (can’t remember which). United went balls in on this idea

 

[Drifter]

Glazers and Woodward out surely? After pulling a stunt like this there is no turning back. Any goodwill that may have been there is lost forever.

So true. The bridge is well and truly burnt

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Everyone's pulling out except for us. Manchester United, Super League champions 2021! Our trophyless run is over!

 

[Ixion]

Do you think they genuinely thought the fans of the clubs involved would be really happy about it?

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Woodward and whoever else resigned from their position at uefa are absolutely egg faced now.

Most definitely.

 

[klayton88]

Damn. I wish I had these pulling out skills.

 

[Tom Van Persie]

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[Judas]

We're signing Haaland and Sancho in the summer as a "we are so sorry xx" present.

 

[The Irish Connection]

Glazers out now! force them to sell through FA fines!

 

[Rightnr]

The weirdest thing is some in here seem tetchy that its not happening

Yeah, I was about to make a note of a few names today but it seems a bit late.

However @crossy1686 definitely is top of the list.

 

[Withnail]

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Actually laughing out loud on me own here

 

[Wolverine]

Not sure if legit but

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[Offside]

Need Glazers out

 

[DomesticTadpole]

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Respect.

 

[RORY65]

There’s a story from earlier today about UEFA changing the format and taking out a credit loan on 7bn. This 4.6bn league hasn’t just collapsed in 6 hours from nowhere.

This £4.6bn league was announced even though 3 of the clubs who were meant to be in it had clearly already pulled out and 2 others in particular only begrudgingly agreed to it last week. The new Champions League already massive suits these teams but they thought they could get more on their own, if this was the plan they wouldn't have given up their major roles within the ECA.