European Super League

PMSL a European 'Super League' without the two biggest countries in Europe by population, Germany and France. Farce.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56809771

Klopp has said that he is against the idea, and that neither he nor the players were consulted.

 

If history has told us Asia is not as easy as they think it is India they all love cricket and the epl has been trying for last ten years to get a hold of any foothold in Asia tbh Japanese and Korean prefer just to watch national team and some of their star players .......nfl works because all large cities / fan bases are covered European football has loads of clubs and loads of supporters tagged to different clubs total different landscape they are banking that anyone else that isn’t a fans of these 12 break away will just accept it and watch the games anyway .... I just don’t see that happening


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Yep he was all against it when he thought it would never happen but now that it is he will stay for a year or two and get the big bucks then leave and say that it ruined footie or some * like that once the bank balance is up where he wants it.

 

Time will tell. If it goes ahead and he resigns then fair play to him. If not then he’s just as bad as the rest.

 

The fans players and manager might have integrity but FSG do not

 

Sorry if I’ve missed this, but who is behind the financial backing of this thing ?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56801498

European Super League: How Europe has reacted

The news of a new European Super League has created a strong and, almost overwhelmingly angry, reaction across the continent.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are the English clubs, alongside Spanish trio Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, and Italian clubs Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus, who have agreed to join a new ESL.

BBC Sport and BBC Monitoring take a look at the media fallout across Europe.

The bonfire of greed

The Italian sport dailies lead the way when it comes to outrage.

"Juve, Inter and Milan: the bonfire of greed," says leading sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport in a scathing editorial.

"This paper has always been opposed to any project that favours the interests of the few by betraying individual merits and undermining the national tournaments which make up the social and cultural roots of football."

Tuttosport's headline is succint but perhaps best indicative of the mood among football fans in Italy: "Are you insane?"

And Il Fatto Quotidiano says "the Super League is the antithesis of football: they want to kill the passion for the game in the name of profit… and to turn fans into mere consumers".

Like several other outlets, the paper says the project is an attempt to reshape European football into an NBA-like tournament "in which every match is an event, and the sport is the means rather than the end: a huge match every night, players who are paid tens of millions per season, extortionate tickets and audiences of billions of people. It's the furthest thing from the European idea of football - and of sport."

El Mundo cites its sources close to the formation of the league as saying big European clubs think the formula of the Champions League "exhausted itself" and the income margins narrowed.

"This is why the entities... believe they have found a new chicken laying gold eggs. And they plan to exploit it without any intermediaries other than themselves," El Mundo said.

Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, called the league "perhaps the worst announcement in football history" and added he believed it was "risky, harmful and with unprecedented consequences".

And Spanish football journalist Juan Castro said there's much surprise in Spain, as well as fury, being directed at Real Madrid's president Florentino Perez.

"For Perez it is third time lucky. The plan he has championed for years finally looks set to be getting off the ground… before similar plots had fallen flat following cold feet from executives," he said.

'The nightmare has come true'

"The dare of Real Madrid, Juve and others: the nightmare has come true", says France's Eurosport in a furious comment piece that accuses the teams of "waiting until night fell to unveil their dark scheme - as if they had been too ashamed to do so in the light of day."

The article concludes darkly: "We don't yet know if the 12 teams in question will go through with their plan. But whatever happens, something's been broken. We won't ever look at them in the same way."

"If they continue with their project, we will never forgive them. We won't forgive them if they give it up, either. The 12 clubs will remain traitors of a shared ideal for a long time still… They've showed they're ready to kill off European football, its essence, its history and its beauty with their cynicism and greed."

In an opinion piece on the Spanish ABC website, journalist Salvador Sostres can see a benefit for Real Madrid and Barca.

"Barca and Madrid have to be the main allies in this strategy, the only one that will ensure the income they need to take over the great players and be able to count on the technical experts, the stadiums and the benefits they undoubtedly need to continue to be among the best," he says.

There are no Bundesliga sides signed up to the plan so in Germany, where clubs have to maintain a majority fan ownership, there is a wider swipe at the English and Spanish teams.

Der Spiegel writes: "The lack of German clubs, specifically Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, is due to the fact that the Super League is viewed more negatively by the public in Germany than in England, for example… Bayern Munich and Dortmund know what thin ice they would be on if they went against this consensus.

"These qualms ceased to exist at Real Madrid or Manchester United long ago,"

 

Sky will not attempt to televise this 'Super League' ?

 

JP Morgan are funding it

 

JP Morgan is reportedly involved, among others.

 

Just seen Neville saying the clubs want to own their own rights & would streams it through phones & tablets etc.

 

Was thinking that too.

 

I imagine most modern day players would forego a few international caps for the millions in increased wages and bonuses that they would receive in any ‘super league’

 

ok cheers, wasnt aware of that.

 

Take KT back at a fraction of what we sold him for !

 

Thats my suspicion ... money comes first and any claims about the importance of national representation will soon be put to test.

 

I’m sure there will be a fair few players interested but it all depends on if the regulatory bodies allow transfers from within the super league back into the normal world of football etc. Once players realise they can’t play world cups or European championships I think they’ll be looking for a move after a few years of playing the same team 5 times a season

 

If Bayern Munich and Dortmund continue to reject this they deserve massive respect and should be applauded onto the pitch by opposition fans in Europe next season (if fans are back).

 

Hahah that would be a disaster some teams are larger than others in the 12 so would genuinely make more money that the rest
Spurs would be * for a start and so would city they can’t get a full capacity


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