Yeah, they're not sorry, and this isn't over, not by a long chalk.
European Super League
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Yeah, they're not sorry, and this isn't over, not by a long chalk.
Ours is the most dry. Quite telling.
UEFA have got most of the other recent changes right that everyone from the UK and Ireland panned when they were announced. The expanded Euros was a real winner, suddenly making the prospect of qualifying for the finals a possibility for a far greater range of countries. The Nations League was a winner, providing further competitive internationals and some nee silverware.
I’m interested to see how this new version of the CL feels. Football tends to be very conservative with its tournament formats. I’m sure the Proper Footballing Men will lampoon it, but it has the potential to provide something for people to get their teeth stuck into. Swiss systems always tend to provide interesting matches throughout and an exciting finish by their very nature.
Dreams can’t be buy.
Credit to our players who made their displeasure known within the club too. I've seen Bruno, Maguire, Shaw, Mata and De Gea cited in particular.
There could be many elements to it. Maybe they fully expected backlash from organizations and fans but all the government talk may have truly scared them.
Could also be that these American owners were just completely blinded by greed and all the others club in fear of missing out joined the project.
More facts will be coming out in the next months what happened behind the scenes. That is my expectation anyway.
Woodward gone, comfort league in shambles....next up, forcing the glazers to sell
Better financial fair play for them maybe, not every other club in a dozen or more countries who'd be blown out of the water.
And it was definitely the first step to a move away from Uefa, franchises maybe, etc.
He (we) can spin it any way they want.
Same as United. Well at least they're not fecking trying to lie to us through the gritted teeth. Anyway, I bet FSG and Glazers are absolutely livid with this now. They actually thought they'd be able to franchise football. Really don't understand the fans at all.
Man, people need to keep this energy for when we have people in the ground. Light a fire under the arse of these Yanks.
Also, apparently Maguire organised the uprising. No official statements but I am inclined to believe and we better finish this season on a real high now.
Also, apparently Maguire organised the uprising. No official statements but I am inclined to believe and we better finish this season on a real high now.
Yep, we need to seize this momentum and somehow get them out altogether. They're not going to stop at this.
Better than the Spurs one.
Calling players and fans "internal and external stakeholders" has gotta be a pretty dark moment in Liverpool's history. Worse than the legacy fans comment, that.
I went on the Real Madrid sub-reddit and more than half of their fans on there were at least receptive to the Super League, and at best cheerleading for it. I went onto the Barcelona sub-reddit and was happily surprised to see that they were more or less unanimous in the rejection of the ESL.
Better late than never
I've never been involved in a long thread like this. I am going to kind of miss it......work output dropped but football survived. Not going to lie but I was surprised how emotional all this made me.
Cheers, mates.
Cheers, mates.
I'm guessing that's related to the stories about UEFA looking at a private equity firm investing billions of Euros into the Champions League, right? Coincidentally, that firm was also English.
Oh shit
They've been working on their superleague idea for years and it was one of the biggest fiasco in the history of football, we're not going to see that anytime soon. I really disagree with this "it's bound to happen" speech. It's not.
So can we talk about the game against Burnley now?
Surely a Netflix documentary now. What a crazy 72 hours. Never experienced anything quite like it -- in football at least. A failed coupd'etat.
Would be the right way to go
Agree it does but it says the Spanish clubs are convinced the PL clubs will come back?
Bollocks! They almost got lynched in the last 48 hours, have just flipflopped... if they flipflop again, it'll be bedlam.
Fingers crossed Real Madrid don't go bankrupt....
You can see by statements who is bitter, pissed, who feel forced to put it out and who is still trying to defend decision asking for understanding to take part in
The 6 Latin clubs.
Yes let's go, they deserve throwing out altogether.
The football fraternity now needs to focus on getting rid of the other poisonous influences such as agents, FIFA, UEFA, FA, etc, who themselves have been incompetent and are responsible for a lot of the discontent.
Honestly, this is some Thanos-level shit.
It's clear with Woodward's connection to JP Morgan that this has been the long game all along. That's why the Glazers never thought about selling the club before they could implement their disgusting grotesque version of a World Soccer League.
God I hope so. This is the first time since they took control that I’ve genuinely felt the Glazers could be convinced to sell
I really, really hope that this isn't just a hollow statement from the football bodies. They have to show the owners that football clubs aren't merely their play things. On that note, they should also extend the consequences out to Roman and Abu Dhabi.
What do you people think was the catalyst for the dismantling of the ESL? The fans’ protests? Amazon saying “no dice”? Or the first club announcing that they were going to leave?
They need to educate themselves with the mindset of British and European sports fans.
Now that would be a miracle.
What an absolute clusterfeck.
The truth hurts. (and no way do the Glazers think any differently)
It'll never happen. They cannot fathom jeopardy and transfers etc. It's not for them.