European Super League

Do you want the ESL to happen?


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Got to love how many people around social media I'm seeing vow to be done with their club if this happens.

Yeah right!
 
With top football men like Joel Glazer and Stan Kroenke as Vice-Chairmen I'm confident this venture has been launched with the game's best interest at heart. For our own franchise club I foresee only great things.
 
So the domestic leagues are going to turn into glorified league cups basically.
 
Wow this is really happening isn't it?

Probably one of the historic days for the wrong reasons in football history!
 
So apparently the English clubs would need approval by the PL to join the Super League.

That's what all that power grab thing was about, a couple of months back, remember all that?

The big clubs wanted to be able to have voting power on issues like this, so they could join the Super League, still remain in the PL and not be bound by UEFA, FFP (not that that was doing anything, but still).
 
I do not think german clubs can enter unless the members (supporters) vote in favor:

The 50+1 rule guards against this. In short, it means that clubs – and, by extension, the fans - hold a majority of their own voting rights. Under German Football League [DFL] rules, football clubs will not be allowed to play in the Bundesliga if commercial investors have more than a 49 percent stake. In essence, this means that private investors cannot take over clubs and potentially push through measures that prioritise profit over the wishes of supporters. The ruling simultaneously protects against reckless owners and safeguards the democratic customs of German clubs.

RB Leipzig could and Red Bull sounds like the type of company interested in this. They'd feel like a second tier entry though.
 
Oh well, and I hoped we would be safe for today. It's really happening folks.
 
Milan, Arsenal, Athletico. Tin fecking pot clubs. Good grief.
 
With top football men like Joel Glazer and Stan Kroenke as Vice-Chairmen I'm confident this venture has been launched with the game's best interest at heart. For our own franchise club I foresee only great things.
As opposed to being run by despots from the middle-east? No thanks!
 
Joel Glazer with a lovely quote. That's put my mind at ease and answered all my scepticism.

Hahahaha football is fecked.
 
Liverpool twitter announcement: "Leading European football clubs announce new Super League competition"
 
Nice one lads. It's been great being on the CAF but I think that statement about the Euro Super League means I'm no longer a United fan. So probably won't be posting much more now. Good luck to the boys for the rest of the season and for the future. I just can't go along with this anymore.
 
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with all Founding clubs signing up to a spending framework

As suspected as well as being a money grab the big clubs will use this Super League as an opportunity to keep City and the other Oil clubs spending in check. Something that Uefa couldn't do, no wonder City and Chelsea were reluctant and PSG said no. If this goes ahead it will also kill any prospect of another City or PSG happening any time soon. SA won't be buying Newcastle if there's little hope of them ever getting into the Super League.
 
'Founding clubs'

Reminds me of those nutjobs in the purge who keep going on about the founding fathers.

This is getting abit too american.
 
What about the players if they don't want to play? They have mitigating circumstances of not wanting to be banned by FIFA.