European Super League
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This bit is not true. It's genuinely a higher quality and more competitive league than the Premier League right now.
You cant possibly be serious.
Haha, eloquently put. I think we all assume that at some point because that’s the image we’re sold. What a moment it is when the scales fall from your eyes. Positively Wizard of Oz-ish
I believe this is all a part of Daniel Levy's great plan to sack Mourinho while creating as little fuzz as possible. The entire Super League was his plan. 
Yikes and this is what everyone wants to play in..
I think we can finally say this: \thread
Tottenham are a bit like Terry cooke in the class of 92 picture. Everyone's forgotten about them.
Four quarters of 15 mins.
Maybe Perez is frantically trying to set up meetings with the teams that participated in the inaugural European Cup, and market it as a back-to-the-roots, truly historically accurate European Cup. So brace yourselves representatives of Hibernian, Gwardia Warsaw and Stade de Reims. You’ll be getting a panicky phone call from a very desperate Spaniard soon.
Doomed anyway but Barca tomorrow is the last straw?
Who’s Terry Cooke?
tbh, all Messi has to do is say no. He runs the club.
I am so glad that this farce is over. But florentino has something under his sleeve. The ESL is over ( for now) and is the best news, but this guy is a shark of businesses and he always plays in a win wi. Situation.
Examples
He stole Figo from barcelona. If Figo was not about to come, he had to oay a huge lump of money (figo thought that he florentino would not win after real winning 2 champions with the previous board)
He had a project with ACS ( one of the biggest infrastructor contractors in the world, and he is the CEO) to exploit and area for oil in Spain. Aftet it was obvious that it was causing mini earthwakes and jeopardizing the area, de spanish government said to stop prospects and the spanosh government ( so the tax payers) will need to pay 1.5 billions in compensations
If after the 6 english teams that left, the others are staying in, is because there is big money involved. I dont know if it will be finally paid, but is not normal and i dont see Perez doing an amateurish move like this without a save back up plan
Examples
He stole Figo from barcelona. If Figo was not about to come, he had to oay a huge lump of money (figo thought that he florentino would not win after real winning 2 champions with the previous board)
He had a project with ACS ( one of the biggest infrastructor contractors in the world, and he is the CEO) to exploit and area for oil in Spain. Aftet it was obvious that it was causing mini earthwakes and jeopardizing the area, de spanish government said to stop prospects and the spanosh government ( so the tax payers) will need to pay 1.5 billions in compensations
If after the 6 english teams that left, the others are staying in, is because there is big money involved. I dont know if it will be finally paid, but is not normal and i dont see Perez doing an amateurish move like this without a save back up plan
Sorry I was just joshingThe guy at the end.
So, it seems like people decided that proxy battles between Russia, Qatar, China and Saudi Arabia on the football pitch is better than having an ESL. That's fine by me, but I hope people realize what they're rallying against.
I for one am not happy about United, Real Madrid and Barcelona becoming irrelevant clubs because they can't really compete against nation state levels of wealth and excess. Know that financial fair play is well and truly dead because of what has transpired over the past year or two. A billion for Qatar is nothing - a rounding error in their oil revenues. A billion for Barcelona is the difference between bankruptcy and survival as a football club.
If anything, I'd welcome our Saudi overlords if they chose to take over United. I hope you do too, otherwise what awaits is just a slow fade to obscurity.
I for one am not happy about United, Real Madrid and Barcelona becoming irrelevant clubs because they can't really compete against nation state levels of wealth and excess. Know that financial fair play is well and truly dead because of what has transpired over the past year or two. A billion for Qatar is nothing - a rounding error in their oil revenues. A billion for Barcelona is the difference between bankruptcy and survival as a football club.
If anything, I'd welcome our Saudi overlords if they chose to take over United. I hope you do too, otherwise what awaits is just a slow fade to obscurity.
He can do what he likes. No one are going to consider who wins that farce of a competition European champions.
I believe this is all a part of Daniel Levy's great plan to sack Mourinho while creating as little fuzz as possible. The entire Super League was his plan.
I believe it's a poor calculation by Levy. He thought he would get the money to compensate Mourinho sacking.
Well, Perez's position is slowly getting weaker. Inter are going to be the next club to leave the Super League.
Or maybe you could simply decide to do something against ownership like this and stop inflating prices for everyone, how about that?
Not to mention that the ESL was never supposed to stop the dirty money, it would have only exaggerated the problem.
Mate, I've been having an existential crisis since Sunday!
I knew I was not alone....
This, it's embarrassing to see him come alive after the club has finally being buried by the owners.
right on, mate.
Is not about the competition anymore. I suspect monetary compensation of contractual obligations for the clubs that withdrew
But i hope he fails miserably. Dont get me wrong
Hey everybody!
Let's laugh at Liverpool and Chelsea dropping points!!!
There was actual football this week??
Definitley. What an absolute shit show.
UEFA has already proven it can't do anything about money in football. For every regulation they put up, there are a 1000 ways to get around them. Business people are smart about figuring out workarounds, that's what they get paid for. And regulation can't keep up pace with the trickery that private companies can come up with.
I will wager now that this is a greenlight for the Newcastle take over and we'll be complaining about them in 2-3 years and in 10 years they will be at the level of a PSG or City.
Maybe this enough of a shock for UEFA that they'll do something serious, but I very much doubt they have it in them.
Yeah, when people in the media talk about the clandestine meetings to create the super league, in actual fact it was more like that scene in Sunderland til I die where the owner is negotiating buying Will Greg.
Is this going to end up being Real Madrid & Barcelona playing each other over and over again?
I was there. Oxford road all the way to Picadilly was rocking
I should have savored it moreBut didn't you know? The world only cares about El Classico.
It was a joke.
I was thinking about this before. How is possible that an agreement is broken so easily without further consequences? The lawyers must have prepared some very serious compensations for that case. It's either that, or what has happened was a completely unpredictable scenario that has caught everyone by surprise.
I played a ton of FIFA with friends in college and after we got bored of 3-4 games of Madrid-Barca or United-Chelsea, we'd switch to some 70- or 60-rated teams. Surely the SL would have led to the same problem of repetition.