The New European Super (borefest) League

BaZ87 · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:06

Stumble Bum said:
Saving face more like.

Yea, I was being sarcastic.

MissChief · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:06

Chelsea apparently getting cold feet and preparing to withdraw

mysticsniper · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:07

BaZ87 said:
Chelsea, the saviours of European football. Bet nobody thought that would ever happen.

Especially as Abramovich is banned from the UK.

Maybe he's done a deal with the government

MissChief · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:07

HangTime said:
No issue (in principle) with this from me; I've long felt 30min halves with clock stopping is preferable to the random injury time generator we get (or more commonly in Europe just too little added time, refs blowing up at 93:00 when there was 3 mins of added time and further stoppages during that time etc)

Even elite professionals can't maintain full intensity for 90mins plus stoppages, so arguably if they shortened matches we could see more intensity (although sometimes having tired players can make games more exciting...).

30 minutes of the ball actually being in play. If the ball goes out of play the clock stops.

glenimp617 · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:07

So who's going to be next?

Or will the five carry on

Andybtsn · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:08

City look to be next.

bingham67 · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:08

Have the teams not signed 23 year contracts was being talked about?

el_dazza · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:09

Good for them. Hopefully this sets a trend but fans won't forget this is a hurry.

omnomnom · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:09

Now lets see what UEFA do about the champions league / Europa next season.

BaZ87 · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:11

el_dazza said:
Good for them. Hopefully this sets a trend but fans won't forget this is a hurry.

This has been the most real threat but this has happened before and will happen again. Whenever the next planned reformat of the CL or TV contracts are due for renewal we'll hear the same stuff.

labbby · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:11

Andybtsn said:
City look to be next.

Liverpool and United will be the last to go, apparently they were the ones really pushing it this side of the water.

Andybtsn · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:13

labbby said:
Liverpool and United will be the last to go, apparently they were the ones really pushing it this side of the water.

Arsenal will stay in it competing against themselves.

adam cool dude · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:15

BaZ87 said:
Chelsea, the saviours of European football. Bet nobody thought that would ever happen.

To be fair I'd would rather have Roman as our owners than the Americans. Good old socialism in his blood coming out and realising he has done wrong.

Regardless of how this ends up I am embarrassed to be a Man Utd fan as it is obvious this was the brainchild of the trio of American owners. If anything the club need to be sold or forced to be sold.

It is just so sad.

Azza · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:15

City now.

Kill_Phil · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:16

Seems city are gearing up to withdraw too...

mysticsniper · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:17

adam cool dude said:
To be fair I'd would rather have Roman as our owners than the Americans. Good old socialism in his blood coming out and realising he has done wrong.

Regardless of how this ends up I am embarrassed to be a Man Utd fan as it is obvious this was the brainchild of the trio of American owners. If anything the club need to be sold or forced to be sold.

It is just so sad.

Some of the owners like Roman are in it for the glory, the ESL takes the completely away from the game and the fans.

Although should have never signed in the first place.

Curio · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:20

Looks like the Super League clubs got reassured they'll be getting more of the Champs League cash. But now they'll all claim they just had a change of heart :rolleyes:

BaZ87 · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:21

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1384571878409441281

labbby · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:22

Curio said:
Looks like the Super League clubs got reassured they'll be getting more of the Champs League cash. But now they'll all claim they just had a change of heart

I bet this new champs league will include so called big clubs that don't actually need to qualify....

uber soldat · 20 Apr 2021 at 19:23

adam cool dude said:
To be fair I'd would rather have Roman as our owners than the Americans. Good old socialism in his blood coming out and realising he has done wrong.

Regardless of how this ends up I am embarrassed to be a Man Utd fan as it is obvious this was the brainchild of the trio of American owners. If anything the club need to be sold or forced to be sold.

It is just so sad.

This will majorly restart the green and gold till the club is sold campaign, hopefully using momentum to this time get rid of the useless yanks.