12 European Clubs Agree To Join European Super League Soccer

[Ray Gin]

All 6 English clubs have now withdrawn. What a rollercoaster couple of days.

Having listened to Sky Sports News announce it, it made me feel sick, not because the super league has been abandoned but because they are acting like they are the gate keepers of good morality when the reality is they are just a bunch of greedy hypocrites that are slightly lesser of two evils and should do one themselves.

 

[Franco Pinion]

I'm really surprised that they caved in so fast, and this was a plan that they discussed for more than a decade with billions at stake?

They probably thought they could just waltz in, introduce the grand idea of a super league and get greeted with cheers and applause. Just shows how detached from reality these billionaires are.

 

[Ray Gin]

Let's see what these sanctions will be. Given that there wasn't anything that materialised at the end of the day, I'm not expecting much more than some fines.

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[David76]

The Premier League has asked executives from the 'big six' English clubs associated with the Super League to step down from committee positions.

Richard Masters, the Premier League chief executive, approached executives from Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool following their involvement in the now-abandoned Super League.

Tottenham Hotspur, the sixth club, are not represented on any of the Premier League committees.

Who has been asked to step down?
Manchester United executive vice chairman Ed Woodward, Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck, Arsenal CEO Vinai Venkatesham, Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano and Liverpool chairman Tom Werner have all been asked to step down from their positions on Premier League committees.

Who does what on which committee?
Each committee provides a platform for clubs to have a voice on various matters.

Buck is on the audit and remuneration committee and also helped lead the search for Richard Scudamore's replacement which turned out to be Masters.

Soriano and Venkatesham are members of the Club Strategic Advisory Group while Woodward and Werner are part of the Club Broadcast Advisory Group.

Why has Masters requested this?
This follows yesterday's angry meeting of the 14 Premier League clubs which are not involved in the Super League.

They believe these 'big six' executives —bar Tottenham who are not represented on any Premier League committees — have acted in bad faith by taking part in sensitive talks and negotiations whilst conspiring behind the other clubs' backs.

The other 14 clubs and the Premier League board deem these executives to have breached two rules, B.16 and L.9.

Firstly, those involved in the Super League have not behaved "towards each other Club and the League with the utmost good faith" and secondly, without prior written approval of the board, they intended to enter its senior men's first team in another competition.

What does this mean for the 'big six'?
As it stands, these are the only responses from the Premier League to the Super League crisis and they are directed at individuals as opposed to the clubs they represent.

Some of the other Premier League clubs would like to go further with more significant sanctions, including punishments for the Super League clubs themselves.

At the moment, however, there is no consensus on what those sanctions would be or even if they are justified, given the fact the Super League plan collapsed so quickly.

Whether these plans to remove key individuals will be the end of it, though, will depend on how quickly the other clubs move on and also how contrite the 'big six' are.

It is possible that calls for more serious punishments may return if the Premier League's auction for TV rights, for example, were to go badly.

 

[Tom]

John Barnes gone way up in my estimation calling a spade, a spade.

 

[David76]

The 12 clubs that formed the breakaway Super League will NOT face any punishment from UEFA.

 

[David76]

"We clearly misjudged how this deal would be viewed by the wider football community and how it might impact them in the future. We will learn from this."

JP Morgan have pulled out of their £3.5billion backing of the European Super League

The final and most devastating nail in the Super League coffin. The money has been withdrawn. Game over!