Unlimited22:

This is what happens when you get Americans involved in football.

Everything becomes even more about money.

TrebleChamp:
This Club owner are only interested in making money, they don't care about football nor the fans. This is a very stupid move in my opinion...

Illimitable:


This is a good development.

The whole “Top 4” concept is well and truly over. Rewarding failure by the FA is one of the reasons United are stagnant.

Even if this Super League thing never takes off, this announcement will shake up things in the PL. The sharing of the prize money in the PL has to be addressed.

If the FA can make winning the league worth £500m more than finishing 2nd, I’m sure you will see a proper title race and proper investment from each club every season.

TrebleChamp:
This Club owner are only interested in making money, they don't care about football nor the fans. This is a very stupid move in my opinion...

GloryIsaac:


There’s already too much money in the Premier League, so such pay gap in the top 4 will make it even more ridiculous.

Unless they have to cut down on the prize money shared to other positions on the table so as to make the top 4 positions and especially the 1st more attractive.

Doing so will cause unrest from the smaller clubs who don’t have the revenue power to compete with the big clubs.

From another perspective, the Super League might just be the Glazers best excuse not to stress over player purchases as much, knowing fully well that the club’s position in the league will never be under threat.

GloryIsaac:
UEFA will have to compromise in this case, either share more money to the clubs or bend to their offer. Issuing threats can only take them so far.

The clubs involved in this literally hold sway over world football as far as elite football is concerned. The sponsors, tv rights etc. will all migrate without blinking an eye.

Illimitable:


The 12 big clubs together are more powerful than UEFA/PL/FIFA.

UEFA is making it look like a moral issue when they are also there for the cash. Their brands will take a nosedive if the Super League becomes a reality.

DSTV, BEINSports, etc would stop bidding for PL games and rush to get the ESL. Who will watch Norwich vs West Brom when Barca vs Juventus is on TV?

Messi
Ronaldo
Hazard
Griezmann
Bruno
KDB
Kane
Salah
Mane
Pep
Mourinho
Simeone
Tuchel
Zidane
Etc

All these big names in the same league and people think UEFA/FIFA/FA have any leverage?

All these big football organizations are about to die.

Illimitable:


Remove £50m each off the bottom 10’s TV/Prize money.

Give it to the winner of the PL. Make winning the league worth £500 more than finishing 2nd.

Every club would be spending at least £400m every summer to win the prize money. As it is, there’s no motivation to finish 1st as the difference between the champions and 4th placed club is less than £15m.

If I am Woodward, why would I need to spend £200m on players when the reward is less than £15m in prize money?

Illimitable:


The 12 big clubs together are more powerful than UEFA/PL/FIFA.

UEFA is making it look like a moral issue when they are also there for the cash. Their brands will take a nosedive if the Super League becomes a reality.

DSTV, BEINSports, etc would stop bidding for PL games and rush to get the ESL. Who will watch Norwich vs West Brom when Barca vs Juventus is on TV?

Messi
Ronaldo
Hazard
Griezmann
Bruno
KDB
Kane
Salah
Mane
Pep
Mourinho
Simeone
Tuchel
Zidane
Etc

All these big names in the same league and people think UEFA/FIFA/FA have any leverage?

All these big football organizations are about to die.

afrodoc:


This is football elitism at its most impure. 15 clubs chosen because of their status and whose positions will never be threatened. This is similar to an old boy network whereby people get jobs and positions due to who they are and who they know rather than their ability, and in this case is the direct result of the Americanization of a European sport.

The first casualty will be the UEFA Champions League as people round the world won't be interested in watching Everton battle Valencia when you can watch Real vs Man City on the Super League telecast. Subsequently however, the national leagues will be affected as less and less money is generated (especially if the Super League teams are kicked out as threatened).

afrodoc:


This is football elitism at its most impure. 15 clubs chosen because of their status and whose positions will never be threatened. This is similar to an old boy network whereby people get jobs and positions due to who they are and who they know rather than their ability, and in this case is the direct result of the Americanization of a European sport.

The first casualty will be the UEFA Champions League as people round the world won't be interested in watching Everton battle Valencia when you can watch Real vs Man City on the Super League telecast. Subsequently however, the national leagues will be affected as less and less money is generated (especially if the Super League teams are kicked out as threatened).

afrodoc:

As things stand next season's EPL Champion's league representatives will be Leicester, West Ham, Everton, Leeds.

PSG and Bayern will be rotating UCL between themselves.

ChristineC:
I don't think anybody can do much about it if the top clubs are in sync with the plan. fans and the likes of Gary Neville can only rant for a while and get on board. It will be the demise of the various FAs and by extension UEFA, they are all for the money as well.
FIFA will be careful here before deciding anything because it's not smooth sailing for them either.
people suggest the players for the clubs should be banned from FIFA World Cups if they don't leave the participating clubs. that doesn't even make sense. these players might be patriotic but not that patriotic.
why will Messi leave Barca and give up >£500k weekly to sign for Eibar so he can play for Argentina in a World Cup?
will fans ultimately care about a World Cup tournament if the best players are potentially Declan Rice or Dominic Calvert-Lewin?

Illimitable:


The team that reached final lost 2-7 to Bayern a season later under Poch. Imagine conceding 7 goals at home without a sending off. That same team was left in tatters in the 14th position - facing relegation.

Mourinho came in, polished the team up and got them as far up as 6th. Levy has refused to spend big because of new stadium, COVID and the announcement of the new European Super League.

Blaming Mourinho for Poch’s mess is quite rich.

Have some shame.

Illimitable:


This is a good development.

The whole “Top 4” concept is well and truly over. Rewarding failure by the FA is one of the reasons United are stagnant.

Even if this Super League thing never takes off, this announcement will shake up things in the PL. The sharing of the prize money in the PL has to be addressed.

If the FA can make winning the league worth £500m more than finishing 2nd, I’m sure you will see a proper title race and proper investment from each club every season.

GloryIsaac:


From a Manchester United perspective, it’s tenable to implement this, as the resources to go for first position are available.

But from a Fulham/Brighton/Burnley/Newcastle etc. perspective, this kills whatever competitive edge they might have had or hoped of having.

Those clubs can’t match the big clubs spending power as it is now, not to mention when the prize money is reduced to give to one big club that eventually finishes first.

GloryIsaac:
Update - Champions League and Europa League matches are temporarily suspended.

SuperLeague official statement:
Chairman: Florentino Perez (Real Madrid)
Vice-chairman: Andrea Agnelli (Juventus)
Vice-chairman: Joel Glazer (Man United)
Also: Andrea Agnelli is set to resign as president of ECA.

CardiNice:
If the price money for the world cup is 5 billion naira.
China will appoint Jetli as their football coach.
USA will appoint The undertaker as their football coach.

England will appoint may weather as their football coach.

Russia will appoint the son of Osama biladen as their football coach.

Then imagine USA playing Russia in a world cup final.
The summary of the match will be 16 red cards, 40 yellow cards including staffs, 500 deaths including fans and 50 thousand injuries.

Nezzjnr:
Glazer's hand is written in all these

Perez as the Chairman na just to disguise


Glazer is an asshole

CardiNice:
Bros we are talking about making football more competitive.
Who gives a Damm about fulham or newcastle? If they can't go and borrow money from lapo or money Lender to finance their club, who cares?

Football is no longer competitive except the world cup.
You think if the price for winning the champions league is about 1 billion naira, do you think Neymar will be laughing at bayern munich players after their last match? A player might just punch him in his girlish face.

Atleast the new super league will give us memories of gatuso, zambrota where if you miss the ball, don't miss the leg.
The days where a player can bite people, the days where players will almost come to blows, the days where tension is always high where you can see six red cards in a game.

I think football for the past seven years now have been very feminine.
Imagine players playing football like women, what Nonsense.
We want to go back to the days of brutal football, don't you want to see matches like Ac Milan vs Liverpool in 2005 final again?
The days of barcelona vs Arsenal 2006 final.
The days of france vs italy world cup finals when zidane gave a flying heading to that italian player?

My whole point is that football is now boring.

afrodoc:



You don't know Perez. He has been pushing for this for years. He and the Glazers are in sync on this one. There are elements of the American sports model as well as the unbalanced La Liga model in this project.

afrodoc:



You don't know Perez. He has been pushing for this for years. He and the Glazers are in sync on this one. There are elements of the American sports model as well as the unbalanced La Liga model in this project.

BlueMann:


What about that Juventus guy, Agnelli or so? He too has a huge hand in this

Modified: Just saw that he'll be one of the vice chairmen, as suspected.