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..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.
Hopefully the damage has been done and the government will be serious in its proposals to look at/reform the ownership of clubs.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
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.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 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.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.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.
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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.Joel Glazer crying in his bed.
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Yep.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.
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Didn't they announce 4.6billion something or other today. Which funnily enough was what the superleague project was originally quoting.The cynic in me thinks UEFA have given something in return and this was all a bluff...
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.
They were never going to be able to go backWoodward and whoever else resigned from their position at uefa are absolutely egg faced now.
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 ideaIt'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."
So true. The bridge is well and truly burntGlazers 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.
Most definitely.Woodward and whoever else resigned from their position at uefa are absolutely egg faced now.
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Yeah, I was about to make a note of a few names today but it seems a bit late.The weirdest thing is some in here seem tetchy that its not happening
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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.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.