12 European Clubs Agree To Join European Super League Soccer

[Spikey]

Guessing one of these is Man City and the other is probably Chelsea? The two clubs that were apparently not that keen from the start. Hopefully true and the other cards start to crumble after them.

 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1384296559668461576

 

[Tom]

Wow that is some statement by Everton

Everton is saddened and disappointed to see proposals of a breakaway league pushed forward by six clubs.

Six clubs acting entirely in their own interests.

Six clubs tarnishing the reputation of our league and the game.

Six clubs choosing to disrespect every other club with whom they sit around the Premier League table.

Six clubs taking for granted and even betraying the majority of football supporters across our country and beyond.

At this time of national and international crisis - and a defining period for our game - clubs should be working together collaboratively with the ideals of our game and its supporters uppermost.

Instead, these clubs have been secretly conspiring to break away from a football pyramid that has served them so well.

And in that Pyramid Everton salutes EVERY club, be it Leicester City, Accrington Stanley, Gillingham, Lincoln City, Morecambe, Southend United, Notts County and the rest who have, with their very being, enriched the lives of their supporters throughout the game's history. And vice versa.

The self-proclaimed Super Six appear intent on disenfranchising supporters across the game - including their own - by putting the very structure that underpins the game we love under threat.

The backlash is understandable and deserved – and has to be listened to.

This preposterous arrogance is not wanted anywhere in football outside of the clubs that have drafted this plan.

On behalf of everyone associated with Everton, we respectfully ask that the proposals are immediately withdrawn and that the private meetings and subversive practises that have brought our beautiful game to possibly its lowest ever position in terms of trust end now.

Finally we would ask the owners, chairmen, and Board members of the six clubs to remember the privileged position they hold – not only as custodians of their clubs but also custodians of the game. The responsibility they carry should be taken seriously.

We urge them all to consider what they wish their legacy to be.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Laughable stuff from Real Madrid's president Perez last night/this morning.

Saying football will die without this happening.

And how all the clubs are losing money. Yes, they're losing money because their management is so bad.

If you have a business that is bringing in €650m every year and it's losing money, you have to look at your management of it. Pay some of your players a bit less, and try to balance the books. Stop chasing each other and pushing the wages higher and higher and you might have a better business model.

I hope they are all dumped out of the Champions League come Friday.

Football lost it's soul and long time ago, but this move could be the nail in the coffin.

 

[Tom]

Laughable stuff from Real Madrid's president Perez last night/this morning.

Florentino Perez is the big winner here, if this goes ahead he will be in control of European football and the premier league clubs no longer have the the power they had. This is what the non-english clubs have wanted for years.

 

[Dylan]

Is there any confirmation on who rejected invites?

 

[Deleted member 9]

Looks like Chelsea & Man City are pulling out

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56823501

 

[Tom]

There are reports that Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have decided to withdraw too.

It looks like this proposal is now dead.

 

[Son Of Jack]

It looks like this proposal is now dead.

I think they will try again at some stage. This is just testing the water I think.

It is not a crumbling but a strategic retreat.

It is nothing new with people thinking about moving teams and creating new leagues.

Remember Celtic and Rangers to the EPL?
Wimbledon playing in Dublin?
The North Atlantic League idea?

I can see Florentino Perez sitting back in his chair with a wine in his hand and just in distraught

Couldn't happen to a nicer person

 

[Geezer]

All 12 founding clubs are meeting tonight to discuss disbanding their proposed league.

Ed Woodward has resigned from his Chairman position at Man United and Andrea Agnelli has resigned as Juventus' president.

I wonder if these 12 clubs will escape punishment from Uefa and their respective associations?

 

[Crabtree]

Ed Woodward has resigned from his Chairman position at Man United

Did Man United fans organise this whole thing to get rid of Woodward? These lads are playing 5d chess.