European Super League to be announced tonight - 9:30pm
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El Guapo
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To be honest there wasn’t really much of a point other than a point of interest.
the_holgate_roof
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Let the implosion begin, so we can return to some normal grass roots football, away from the mega bucks and mercenaries.
dooderooni
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Given the number of complaints about too many games as it is, the playing of U23's in the domestic cups etc, I wonder how the managers of the clubs involved will be asked to square that particular circle by their owners?
Seems like this is just part of a plan to take a bigger wedge of the existing pie to me, but I sincerely hope it backfires on them big time.
Seems like this is just part of a plan to take a bigger wedge of the existing pie to me, but I sincerely hope it backfires on them big time.
MFP
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Why even afford them that? Just expel them from every competition with immediate effect, deny them any monies (prize, TV rights) owed and make ineligible any player registered with them from participating in international competitions administered by UEFA.
BoroMart
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Had a browse around a few clubs fans forums. It looks like the fans of some of these big clubs are absolutely against this and disgusted at as the rest of us, mainly Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs fans. Man City fans are 50-50 because they hate UEFA for the FFP thing, looks like the older wiser fans that went to Maine Road would walk away, Man U fans seem 50-50 but I think that their boards have a lot of foreign 'fans'.
Berwickhillbilly
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Don't think you're far wrong there.
Smoginexile
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I really don't understand why so many are surprised and outraged by this.
Yes it's an insult to the game.
Yes It's profit before people.
But football has been happy to take money from big corporate business for a long time.
Do you really think that these big money machines were going to continue ploughing more and more into the game without expecting something back?
They want a guaranteed return on their investment.
They have never claimed to love the game.
They love money and have never made any secret of it.
Rumour has it that Steve Gibson refused to follow suit and sell our club on.
If so this situation shows that we haven't had enough people like him in the game.
If football didn't want this it should not have allowed itself to become more of a business than a sport.
We sold the crown jewels so they don't belong to us anymore.
This is the day football pays the price for its own greed.
Yes it's an insult to the game.
Yes It's profit before people.
But football has been happy to take money from big corporate business for a long time.
Do you really think that these big money machines were going to continue ploughing more and more into the game without expecting something back?
They want a guaranteed return on their investment.
They have never claimed to love the game.
They love money and have never made any secret of it.
Rumour has it that Steve Gibson refused to follow suit and sell our club on.
If so this situation shows that we haven't had enough people like him in the game.
If football didn't want this it should not have allowed itself to become more of a business than a sport.
We sold the crown jewels so they don't belong to us anymore.
This is the day football pays the price for its own greed.
BoroMart
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Maybe, but it sounds like a Richard Dunne-esque own goal if that's the case. They've alienated the entire football community against them, created utter suspicion of their future intentions, most of their own fans are angry.
Borobuddah
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Woody wouldn’t approve of their timekeeping
Fat_Dragon
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Finished in the top 6 of the Premier League for the last 10 seasons?
Zoophonic
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I am not sure what this has got to do with Government. Johnson and his cabal have enough issues to deal with rather than jump own this populist bandwagon
Jedi boro
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No they are owned by the Qatari govt
Erimus74
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But won nothing