European Not so Super League

I thought it was worth letting you know.

 

I’m up there with a lot of conspiracy / corruption theories, but I don’t believe this for one minute. There’s no logic in it at all. The breakaway teams were hardly in a strong bargaining position considering the universal hammering they got, so why would anyone pay them right now to pull out - just wait it out to see if they have any resolve.
there are a lot of reporters jumping on bandwagons at the mo with speculation.

 

Del Boy will be knocking these out down the market in the morning, but you can get the memories now. Not £10, not £5, but the bargain price of £3.50, or 2 for £7.50.
I can’t say fairer than that.
you know it makes sense.

 

Great news for train carriage and toilet roll manufacturers...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ers-Celtic-join-new-British-Super-League.html

You're on safer ground picking a fight with Putin.

 

Aaaaand......what did hr say?

 

So reducing the number of PL teams while inviting Rangers & Celtic to join?
Yeah, I can see the turkeys voting for that!

 

I think the turkeys would be telling them to get stuffed!!

 

I'd rather they scrap the Carabao Cup in favour of a British Leagues Cup than bring Rangers and Celtic into the league.

 

Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer spoke to fans who entered the club's training ground at Carrington on Thursday to protest against the Glazer family's ownership.

Over a dozen fans entered the complex but have now left.


They had banners saying 'Glazers Out' and '51% MUFC'.

Co-chairman Joel Glazer would have been a vice-chairman of the European Super League before United withdrew on Tuesday after a furious backlash.

On Wednesday, he issued a letter of apology admitting the club made a mistake joining the proposed breakaway competition.

"At approximately 9am this morning a group gained access to the club training ground," said United in a statement.

"The manager and others spoke to them. Buildings were secure and the group has now left the site."

Solskjaer was joined by coach Michael Carrick, technical director Darren Fletcher and midfielder Nemanja Matic in speaking to the fans, who were pictured at the security entrance, outside the main entrance and on a training pitch.

United were one of six Premier League clubs to sign up to the European Super League, before they all withdrew within 48 hours of the competition being announced.

"We failed to show enough respect for its deep-rooted traditions," Glazer said in an open letter to fans.

There has been a long-standing campaign against the Glazer family since the Americans' controversial leveraged takeover of the club in 2005.

 

When Rangers came to Manchester in 2008 for UEFA Cup Final they smashed up so much & trashed Piccadilly with rubbish everywhere.
I don’t want to see that again, don’t want to see Rangers or Celtic in English leagues.
If at any point it’s decided that they can come in, then they should start down the leagues, minimum should be conference, but maximum should be like Bury, who had to restart from scratch. Also none of this, reserves & still playing in Scotland either.

 

Would never happen because they'd lose their places in Europe - 2 Champions League and 1 Europa League slots for Scotland at the moment. given the relative odds of them qualifying in Scotland v qualifying in an English league, they'd never get in again.

 

This twat really is delusional -

The European Super League (ESL) is on "standby" despite nine of the 12 founding teams withdrawing, says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.

After a furious backlash against the proposed tournament that was announced on Sunday, all six Premier League clubs involved withdrew on Tuesday.

Spanish club Atletico Madrid and Italian sides AC Milan and Inter Milan have also formally pulled out.

"We're going to continue working," said Perez. "The project is on standby."

Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus have not withdrawn, although Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli said the project could not now proceed.

Speaking on the El Larguero show on Spanish radio station Cadena Ser, Super League chairman Perez claimed all 12 clubs "have not left yet".

"You cannot get out of the contract like this - they are binding contracts," he added.

When asked what the penalty was for leaving the project, Perez did not answer.

Perez reiterated his view that the ESL was created "to save football", having also previously said the move had been made because young people were "no longer interested in football" because of "a lot of poor quality games".

He added he was "sad and disappointed" by the reaction to the project, which the clubs have been working on "for around three years".

He accused Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin and various countries' footballing authorities of "aggression" and "threats" towards the ESL.

"Maybe we didn't explain it well, but they also didn't give us an opportunity to explain it," said the 74-year-old.

"I've been in football for 20 years and I've never seen threats like this. It was like we killed someone. It was like we killed football. But we were trying to work out how to save football."

A revamped 36-team Champions League, starting in 2024, was agreed on Monday, although the ESL teams had said in its announcement of Sunday it did not think Uefa's reforms went far enough.

"The Champions League format is old and only interesting from the quarter-finals onwards," said Perez.

"This format clearly doesn't work, so we thought that we could have a format where the most important teams in Europe play against each other from the very beginning of the season.

"We worked out the numbers and felt we could make much more money, more money for all the other teams too."

Perez also claimed one of English football's 'big six' - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - were reluctant about the ESL from the start.

"There was someone in the English group that didn't have much interest, I won't say who," he said.

"That began to infect others, who are also people of an age, and who are perhaps afraid because they did not understand anything of what was happening.

"We all signed a binding agreement, but I think one was never very convinced."

Analysis
Spanish football expert Guillem Balague on BBC Radio 5 Live

Perez has got a vision and apparently the rest of the world is not seeing it and that's dangerous when someone feels like that.

He kept saying, in his second appearance in a disastrous PR campaign, that he's there to save football.

He's talking about big losses - in the case of Real Madrid, they've gone from expecting to earn 900m euros (£779m) to 600m euros (£519m) in only one season, and that stops them doing a lot of their projects, like maybe signing Kylian Mbappe from Paris St-Germain.

In Spain, we are a completely different type of fan. We don't act against things we think are unfair. In England, it is more like a lifestyle. They are taking something off you and you go out to try to get it back.

Perez has been untouchable for many years. But this vision did not really have strong foundations so the media are having a bit of a laugh here.

We are all very surprised Joan Laporta and Barcelona have not come out and pushed away from this idea. But, they are so desperate for money that they think whoever comes up with the right idea, they will just join in.

We are a little bit disappointed by the leaders of the two biggest clubs in Spain.

 

"We worked out the numbers and felt we could make much more money,more money for all the other teams too."

It's not about the money you sad little man.