Big Six sign up for new European Super League

[cic old boy]

Liverpool's owner apologises. Greedy self interest collapses into self preservation.

[Coach]

Liverpool's owner apologises. Greedy self interest collapses into self preservation.

But, but...the Basketball Super League, Survivor Series and Wrestlemania.

[cic old boy]

Agnelli: Super League can no longer go ahead.

[cic old boy]

[Kabalega]

Why exactly do ManU, Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Spurs fans object to the Super League?
Their clubs stood to gain.

It's the likes of Everton, LCFC, Leeds, West Ham, fans that stood to lose.

[cic old boy]

Why exactly do ManU, Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Spurs fans object to the Super League?
Their clubs stood to gain.

It's the likes of Everton, LCFC, Leeds, West Ham, fans that stood to lose.

Football is not just about selfish interest. Competition is what makes it attractive. Then there's culture, romance, heritage, etc. Like Pep said, it's no longer sport if your success is guaranteed. A closed league is good for profits, but not good for fans brought up on the notion of uncertainty of outcome.

Tradition matters to fans. Remember when the EPL tried to play games abroad. Many people watching footie on the telly don't know how this is like religion to locals. Some proposals are like sacrilege.

[ale62]

[Sleaky72]

Liverpool's owner apologises. Greedy self interest collapses into self preservation.

What a lame apology.
What the hell are they smoking out there in Boston

[Sleaky72]

Why exactly do ManU, Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Spurs fans object to the Super League?
Their clubs stood to gain.

It's the likes of Everton, LCFC, Leeds, West Ham, fans that stood to lose.

Because they are football fans FIRST!

[Sleaky72]

Why exactly do ManU, Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Spurs fans object to the Super League?
Their clubs stood to gain.

It's the likes of Everton, LCFC, Leeds, West Ham, fans that stood to lose.

Football is not just about selfish interest. Competition is what makes it attractive. Then there's culture, romance, heritage, etc. Like Pep said, it's no longer sport if your success is guaranteed. A closed league is good for profits, but not good for fans brought up on the notion of uncertainty of outcome.

Tradition matters to fans. Remember when the EPL tried to play games abroad. Many people watching footie on the telly don't know how this is like religion to locals. Some proposals are like sacrilege.

[ale62]

Agnelli: Super League can no longer go ahead.

Bravo!
You understand that it won't work!
Football belongs to the fans!
You don't play against us!!!!!

[cic old boy]

Why the hell have Barcelona not left the Super League yet?


That’s it. That’s the article.

Do the right thing, Barcelona. Now.

It’s okay to want to save the club from bankruptcy. It is not okay to bankrupt the history of the greatest club in the world.

It doesn’t matter that the Super League has been suspended. It doesn’t matter that you need approval from the socios and you don’t need to do or say anything. Doing nothing is pathetic. You are still part of this.

For every second you are still part of this, Més Que Un Club continues to lose its meaning. It is not fair to us. You exist because of us.

Please leave.

Please.
https://www.barcablaugranes.com/2021/4/ ... league-yet

[Ipe Grams]

Why exactly do ManU, Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Spurs fans object to the Super League?
Their clubs stood to gain.

It's the likes of Everton, LCFC, Leeds, West Ham, fans that stood to lose.

Cause they were fans before money came into and took over the game and its all about money and nothing else as Liverpool fans prefer their rivalry against Everton first than other european teams that they have no history with.

[cic old boy]

Here are the remaining clubs still officially in the ESL. We are down to four:

Real Madrid
Barcelona
Milan
Juventus

We’re down to the semi-finals!
https://www.theguardian.com/football/li ... hdraw-live

[cic old boy]

FC Internazionale Milano confirm that the Club is no longer part of the Super League project.

We are always committed to giving fans the best football experience; innovation and inclusion are part of our DNA since our foundation. Our engagement with all stakeholders to improve the football industry will never change.

Inter believes that football, like every sector of activity, must have an interest in constantly improving its competitions, to keep on exciting fans of all ages around the world, within a framework of financial sustainability.

With this vision we look forward to carry on working together with institutions and all stakeholders for the future of the sport we all love.
https://www.inter.it/en/news/2021/04/21 ... eague.html

[cic old boy]

Official statement
April 21, 2021 - 11:47

Atlético de Madrid's Board of Directors, which met on Wednesday morning, has decided to formally communicate to the Super League and the rest of the founding clubs its decision not to finally formalise its adhesion to the project.

Atlético de Madrid took the decision on Monday to join the project due to circumstances that no longer exist today.

For the club, harmony between all the groups that make up the Red & White family, especially our fans, is essential.

The first team squad and the coach have expressed their satisfaction with the club's decision, as they understand that sporting merits must prevail over any other criteria.
https://en.atleticodemadrid.com/noticia ... tatement-3

[cic old boy]

[cic old boy]

Two contrasting opinions from two loyal Liverpool fans.

Dave Ricketts: “As a season ticket holder of 47 years, he can frankly stick his apology where the sun don’t shine. As a fan base we don’t forget or forgive easily. This is meant to be a club set inside a community built on solidarity. He has tried his best to smash that to pieces. Ticket pricing, furloughing staff, trying to copyright the word Liverpool, and now this. He hung Jurgen Klopp and the players completely out to dry on Monday, as well as the fans. They need to go and quick, They will never be trusted again. However, Kudos to Jordan Henderson and the players. Jordan is a true leader and a Liverpool legend.”

Gerry Rawcliffe: “I am a Liverpool fan of nearly 60 years standing. While disgusted with Liverpool’s decision to sign up to the ESL, I think John Henry’s admission of serious error and apology to the fan base (and the playing, coaching and management staff) should be given more credit, as indeed should his rebuilding of the club from the dark days of Hicks and Gillette.”
https://www.theguardian.com/football/li ... hdraw-live

[cic old boy]

OFFICIAL STATEMENT
We accepted the invitation to participate in the Super League project with the genuine intention to deliver the best possible European competition for football fans around the world and in the best interest of the club and our own fans. Change is not always easy, but evolution is necessary for progress, and the structures of European football have evolved and changed over the decades.

However, the voices and the concerns of fans around the world have clearly been expressed about the Super League, and AC Milan must be sensitive to the voice of those who love this wonderful sport.

We will continue to work hard to deliver a sustainable model for football.
https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/article ... -statement

[cic old boy]

PFA statement.

We welcome news that the six English clubs have abandoned the European Super League. Sport with certainty, without jeopardy, void of aspiration and reward – is not sport. It’s just commercial content. Football is a shared experience across Europe. It is in our collective DNA, culture and heritage. This divisive and closed concept ultimately united the football community. However, this is a seismic event that has shaken football to its core. The impact will be long-lasting. There needs to be a period of reflection within the game. These events should now be the start of a process rather then the end. We are proud of our members – many put in a difficult position by their club’s owners – who stood up for the game they love. Speaking out as fans and as part of the wider football family, our former players also used their platforms effectively and often devastatingly. With absolute conviction they passionately articulated why the preservation of the domestic game is so important.

[cic old boy]

Football Supporters Association statement.

"Appeasement of football’s richest clubs doesn’t work. The vultures circle, they’re always after more and they only get stronger when you feed their greed. This time the cabal of billionaire owners overplayed their hand and their rapacious appetite for more united an unprecedented array of opponents.

“Fans across the entire game, players, managers, pundits, clubs, leagues, football associations across the continent, politicians, Prime Ministers and governments. Even the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge shared their concerns.

English club involvement in the Super League has collapsed and the concept itself teeters on the edge. At a continental level the FSA will continue to campaign with our friends at Football Supporters Europe to kill the competition for good. Agnelli’s ‘blood pact’ has no place in football.

The past 72 hours of white hot action and anger has killed domestic involvement in the Super League but that doesn’t mean fans can take their foot off the accelerator - a return to the status quo is unacceptable and will only allow these unscrupulous owners to regroup.”

[Sleaky72]

If these owners who are saddled with debt and have seen most of their turnover
being sucked dry by players wages then they should really push for alternatives
like banning or curtailing agents fees. Let the players pay their damn agent.
They need a collectively bargained salary cap like in some American sports leagues
and restructure naming rights to help players make more money off their image rights.
How these jokers could misread the room so poorly is shocking to me.

[Coach]

@CIC, 3 teams remaining, think the Yanks could fashion a winner stays on, one and off contest. Combatants lock horns for however long it takes for the first goal to be scored. Immediately the conceding team leave the field and the next team comes on. Winner stays on. First winner to 3 consecutive wins, wins the Super League daily trophy. In the event that there’s been no winner after 9 rounds, a sudden death penalty shootout, with Hollywoodesque firework displays and exploding buildings in the background for good measure. Guest referees for all matches, with introduction of a Green Card to add to the yellow and red. The ref is allowed to flash the green as they please, which permits his preferred side to field an extra player or remove one from the opponent.

Think the Cowboys will be interested?