The European Super League backers have revealed today that they want to launch a new version of the project that crashed two years ago: a multi-division competition of 60 to 80 teams with no permanent members, and a minimum of 14 games per club, per season.
The announcement was made in various European newspapers by A22, the Madrid-based sister company of the Super League (ESL), and timed to coincide with a new push from the three remaining rebels Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus to continue their battle with Uefa.
A22 claim that the new project is a result of detailed conversations with clubs around Europe on the financial problems facing them. For the past few months A22 and the ESL have focused their attacks on the wealth of the Premier League, its dominance of the transfer market and the effect that has on other European leagues with less lucrative television deals.
Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, was among the first to respond to today’s announcement. He tweeted: “The Super League is the wolf, who today disguises himself as a granny to try to fool European football, but his nose and his teeth are very big. Four divisions in Europe? Of course the [top division] for them [the founding clubs], as in the 2019 plan. Governance of the clubs? Of course only from the big ones.”
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Fucking sick of it. The people trying to create this thing should be banned from football.
Sadly the FA didn’t crack down enough on the British teams who signed up for the initial mess. Should have given each of them a points deduction to teach them a lesson.
Instead they got a slap on the wrist, meaning the greedy money-grabbing owners will try again.
The Gov will simply not allow them to join, and rightly so
Best idea I’ve seen for a super league is to have a genuine division play their club football for the season exclusively within the super league (except domestic cups), with full relegation and promotion of one team from each country, replaced with a promoted team from said country. In theory, you could have the English sides finish as the top x in that league, with teams from other countries all finishing below, but regardless that bottom English club goes down and the winner of the prem would go up.
Its not perfect, or even better than we have now, but of the financially ruined giants of Europe keep pushing for one, id rather it be in a format like this.
Wish I could remember which user of r/soccer came up with the idea so I could credit them.
>Chelsea’s spend of £288 million dwarfed the £190 million total for all 78 clubs in France, Spain, Germany and Italy combined.
Blimey
Oh goody, I’m looking forward to another wave of football fans realizing/complaining that for clubs and players money is more important.
I don’t think it will work anyway. If French, German and English teams can’t/won’t join it is doomed. The PSG owner is really chummy with Seferin now. The German clubs are owned 51% by their fans and won’t allow it. The English clubs will be legislated against if they try and join it.
So basically they are merging Italian and Spanish leagues.
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The European Super League backers have revealed today that they want to launch a new version of the project that crashed two years ago: a multi-division competition of 60 to 80 teams with no permanent members, and a minimum of 14 games per club, per season.
The announcement was made in various European newspapers by A22, the Madrid-based sister company of the Super League (ESL), and timed to coincide with a new push from the three remaining rebels Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus to continue their battle with Uefa.
A22 claim that the new project is a result of detailed conversations with clubs around Europe on the financial problems facing them. For the past few months A22 and the ESL have focused their attacks on the wealth of the Premier League, its dominance of the transfer market and the effect that has on other European leagues with less lucrative television deals.
Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, was among the first to respond to today’s announcement. He tweeted: “The Super League is the wolf, who today disguises himself as a granny to try to fool European football, but his nose and his teeth are very big. Four divisions in Europe? Of course the [top division] for them [the founding clubs], as in the 2019 plan. Governance of the clubs? Of course only from the big ones.”
**This article is currently free to read in full ⤵️**
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/02/09/european-super-league-new-tournament-to-replace-champions-league/
Fucking sick of it. The people trying to create this thing should be banned from football.
Sadly the FA didn’t crack down enough on the British teams who signed up for the initial mess. Should have given each of them a points deduction to teach them a lesson.
Instead they got a slap on the wrist, meaning the greedy money-grabbing owners will try again.
The Gov will simply not allow them to join, and rightly so
Best idea I’ve seen for a super league is to have a genuine division play their club football for the season exclusively within the super league (except domestic cups), with full relegation and promotion of one team from each country, replaced with a promoted team from said country. In theory, you could have the English sides finish as the top x in that league, with teams from other countries all finishing below, but regardless that bottom English club goes down and the winner of the prem would go up.
Its not perfect, or even better than we have now, but of the financially ruined giants of Europe keep pushing for one, id rather it be in a format like this.
Wish I could remember which user of r/soccer came up with the idea so I could credit them.
>Chelsea’s spend of £288 million dwarfed the £190 million total for all 78 clubs in France, Spain, Germany and Italy combined.
Blimey
Oh goody, I’m looking forward to another wave of football fans realizing/complaining that for clubs and players money is more important.
I don’t think it will work anyway. If French, German and English teams can’t/won’t join it is doomed. The PSG owner is really chummy with Seferin now. The German clubs are owned 51% by their fans and won’t allow it. The English clubs will be legislated against if they try and join it.
So basically they are merging Italian and Spanish leagues.