[bitontheslide]

Manchester City have just released the following club statement:

Manchester City Football Club can confirm that it has formally enacted the procedures to withdraw from the group developing plans for a European Super League.

[Denver]

Rumours that FSG are looking to sell Liverpool if the league doenst go ahead, please lord lets hope it be true

[bitontheslide]

The remaining four English teams have decided to pull out of the Super League.

BBC Sport understands a formal announcement will be made this evening.

The moves comes at the end of a seismic day, which had already seen Manchester City pull out, with Chelsea due to follow suit.

[Denver]

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/fir...-20-april-2021

Statement from Liverpool

[James]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Youtube video

Weird how this vid came out today.

Thanks, very informative.

I've been slightly sceptical of (properl) fan-ownership in the past because I think their might be pressure to over-spend.

[arista]

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[Alf]

Apparently all six teams have now pulled out.

Ban all six teams from representing our country on the European stage for 5 years, and also a points deduction for all six, minimum 20pts.

[arista]

All six English teams pull out of European Super League

https://news.sky.com/story/european-...l-out-12281597

The Problem is still there
until the Next Time.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Apparently all six teams have now pulled out.

Ban all six teams from representing our country on the European stage for 5 years, and also a points deduction for all six, minimum 20pts.

No Ban's Alf


Nothing has Changed


We are Still stuck with Massive
Ł7 Billion Debts of these 6 Clubs

[bitontheslide]

There will be widespread repercussions. The days of pandering to rich owners is officially over. I can see legislation being brought in so that it cant be attempted again in the future

[Cherie]

Inter Milan pulling out now

[AnnieK]

I actually found it funny how quickly this all folded. So much trust has been lost in the big6

[Calderyon]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

ew

who cares, also amid a pandemic this stupid and unnecessary idea

Originally Posted by Nicky91

hope UEFA will stop this, as this goes against their Champions League


also this is very rude and condescending towards the smaller teams



and i'd say fitting punishment would be to exclude these far too elitist teams from CL or EL for the next 2 years at least

Originally Posted by Nicky91

disgusting, won't be following a single match of these fake troll teams

Originally Posted by Nicky91

No

these dumb moronic elite ruin real football



every real football fan should boycott this bunch of crap pls

Originally Posted by Nicky91

also says a lot about these s**te teams competing in this troll rubbish league


hope all of them will lose a lot of fans who go support other real teams instead

Originally Posted by Nicky91

they are not the best teams

Originally Posted by Nicky91

+100

i for one love rooting for smaller (budget) teams way more

also this isn't to be compared to america's MLS league either since MLS is a domestic league of theirs (just that america is huge they can expand like that to more teams in the competition)

i have and still am following MLS for quite a long while now, loving almost each state is represented now there

and players wise yes they can attract bigger name foreign stars (what they have done with a David Beckham, David Villa, Xavi, Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Wayne Rooney) but most must be homebound players, also a way to give the US national team a boost upwards



this european super league is just bunch of elitist rubbish, very unnecessary

Originally Posted by Nicky91

keep those billions coming to amsterdam yes pls

Originally Posted by Nicky91

uh no, that'll be City whom definitely have loads of karma coming for them for many years now

Originally Posted by Nicky91

he makes some strong and valid points tbh

Originally Posted by Nicky91

they are those only worthy of playing against each other

rather than all other cannon fodder and dud smaller teams

Originally Posted by Nicky91

since Everton is not a successful team compared to the elite 12


hilarious how they are crying until it gets embarrassing, stop crying and seek new owners, new investors if you want to be part of elite too

Originally Posted by Nicky91

good on Rashford legend , well he's ready to leave United then, where could he go, maybe West Ham to join his past teammate Lingard

Originally Posted by Nicky91

West Ham can buy him easily then since United are a dead team now


all those players of Barcelona, Real Madrid being available next transfer market for the real clubs compared to these 12 amateurs

Originally Posted by Nicky91

i doubt anyone wants to play for AC Milan, Inter, Juventus either after all this

Originally Posted by Nicky91

Super League idea will be gone by Friday i think

Originally Posted by Nicky91

cowards for pulling out

Originally Posted by Nicky91

football is dead now all thx to the fans for cancelling this


cancel culture has again sadly won

Originally Posted by Nicky91

don't give in to the vile football fans i agree

Interesting.

[arista]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

I actually found it funny how quickly this all folded. So much trust has been lost in the big6

To Be Fair
it never got started
it was only an idea.

[bitontheslide]

"Despite the announced departure of the English clubs, forced to take such decisions due to the pressure put on them, we are convinced our proposal is fully aligned with European law and regulations," the ESL said on Wednesday, adding it was "convinced that the current status quo of European football needs to change".

In an interview with Italian newspaper la Repubblica, Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli said the remaining clubs will "press ahead" and the project still had "a 100% chance of being a success".

[bitontheslide]

Nicky, you are just being a troll

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

To Be Fair
it never got started
it was only an idea.

It was more than an idea Arista, if it were an 'idea' it would have been floated past managers, players, fans before being announced

[Cherie]

What I find most sad about this is that the claim is that the younger audience are not engaged by football and that 90 minutes is too long

is this true?

having endured an endless baseball game in Boston, I can't imagine why anyone would think 90 minutes with a break in between is too long