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"Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur all agree to plan. Five English clubs are among 11 European teams who have signed up to a breakaway Super League in an extraordinary development on the eve of Uefa's announcement of a new Champions League format. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/sports/soccer/super-league-united-liverpool-juventus-madrid.html"

Scouse fans going ballistic on Talk Sport... fair do's... app' Saturday will be NIL flags on the Kop on Saturdays game in support to scupper the ESL...

Mike How can these clubs play somewhere between 20-25 Super League games 38 Premier League games Plus domestic cups? The more i think about it the better it is. Even the top clubs will struggle to compete seriously on all platforms. Give us more of a chance? When an ESL club comes knocking for a player you ask 200 million for Rice rather than 100 million. When Rice goes he asks for 200k instead of 100k. It is no different to when Premier league tv money doubled. So did the value of players. 80 million for maguire etc. The money soon disappears. It's not like all the extra revenue will go back into the squad and cub itself. It will all head off to players and agents. Any left over will head straight into offshore accounts and other projects. it is all about rich owners trying to make themselves even richer.

"Even if the FA had the bollocks to threaten players that they couldn't be selected, I'm sure their agents will be employing the best lawyers to contest this as an illegal restraint of trade. I'd love it happen, we would have an absolutely super competitive league with us, Villa, Everton, Leicester, Newcastle, Leeds etc, we could even invite the jocks!"

"I suspect the issue for the PL is that the tv revenue is linked to them being part of it all, now the rest of the world resents that money so they may see a chance to put an end to that advantage Aside, the Yanks are very litigious, you have to think that they are ready to roll legally should there be an attempt to expel them That said, I'm pretty sure that FIFA work as a 'club' and entry to which is subject to their rulings, and there lay the rub with the Euros and WC looming, banning the players may be a trump card"

"dealcanvey 2:09 Mon Apr 19 I'm not sure they are, because that will cut off their access to talent. Footballers will soon realise that joining an ESL club is no different than going to China for one last big payday. I do believe that they truly feel that it is their nuclear weapon against the domestic leagues and authorities - that the current administrations will really move heaven and earth to keep them locked in at any price. They may have badly misread the situation, but it looks like several are already burning bridges."

"Soooper league isn't for fans, it's for customers from all over the world who 'follow' the teams that are on tv. Levy and co can fill their stadiums with punters by giving cheap tickets. That will be the vision side of telly sorted, they can play crowd noise over the picture. Sorted. Once it looks good on telly he can hold his hand out for the dough. Boris won't have to fund the regeneration of the surrounding area because it won't be televised. Win,win."

Irish Hammer 1:22 Mon Apr 19 Without these 12 admitting it I believe their plan is to leave their domestic leagues altogether.

"oioi 1:58 Mon Apr 19 Fans turning up at grounds/fans buying TV packages. Either way is assuming fans will remain, well, fanatical, and shell out unquestioningly for anything branded in the club/league's name."

"Week 20 of the ESL and the 2 bottom teams are playing each other, they can’t go down and they can’t go any higher. Who would watch that? Be like a fucking testimonial match."

"It's not about local fans turning up, it's about worldwide income from televised football."

"oioi 1:39 Mon Apr 19 Maybe the ESL people looked at how effectively GSB had isolated so many West Ham fans from the club yet 60,000 would still turn up (and spend) every fortnight and thought ""We'll have some of that! That's just the ticket for us!""."

"bollock, obviously...."

"GSB know the Sooper league aren't interested in them. Levy thinks he's bossing it over them. He dropped a bullock with that horrible stadium, now he wants his money back. He won't be happy with GSB laughing at him!"

"I should imagine our owners would be against it,l mean they was the first to veto the last Premiership super league _________ What the fuck are you on about, you retarded, board loving, new breed, tramp?"

"I should imagine our owners would be against it,l mean they was the first to veto the last Premiership super league Spuds cant get in the CL,so this is a backdoor way of getting some dosh to clear their debt of one billion, fuck em hope this is the beginning of the end for them"

"GSB are busily working out how they can get in on the action, oioi. Probably firing out begging emails right now."

"The only possible way this gets saved now is by the best players rejecting it. Ain't gonna happen obviously, but that's the only way this gets sorted."

"Wenger was only a couple of years out with this predication, Sold0. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/aug/17/arsene-wenger-european-super-league"

"Wenger was only a couple of years out with this predication, Sold0. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/aug/17/arsene-wenger-european-super-league"

Wenger just been on Talk Sport.... calling the ESL a right load of old cսnt wash... or words to that effect... in a french twang

No word from GSB? It's hard to talk when you're rolling around on the floor laughing.

"He is a cսnt alright, a potless cսnt to boot Mind, compared to Barca, looks wealthy"

Probably been said a lot already but the only reason we aren't on that list is because we weren't invited. Bring back the old divisions 1-4 and be done with it all.

"Irish Hammer 1:22 Mon Apr 19 How many times a month will you sit and watch the Harlem Globetrotters? The result won't matter either way because it'll be more of exactly the same again next year, and the year after, and the year after that, and.... This is what each and every one of the teams in this league will morph into and even the (SE) Asians will eventually fuck off and take their money with them."

"Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, the first chairman of the ESL, said the new competition would ""help football at every level"". ""Football is the only global sport in the world with more than four billion fans and our responsibility as big clubs is to respond to their desires,"" he added. Desires??? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! What a cսnt...."