Vae

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"Dreams can't be buy" - Bruno Fernandes

Twelve of Europe's leading football clubs have announced they have agreed to establish a new midweek competition, the European Super League, governed by its 'Founding Clubs'.

Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea will likely be banned from this season's Champions League semi-finals. There is a potential the 12 teams will be removed or have points deducted from their domestic leagues.

• ESL to be "suspended"
• All six English clubs withdraw from the agreement. AC Milan and Barca to potentially follow
• Manchester City, potentially Chelsea requesting withdrawal from ESL
• BREAKING "Chelsea are now preparing documentation to request withdrawing from the ESL"
• Luke Shaw (Man Utd) speaks out against the ESL
• "Liverpool have grown "increasingly doubtful" in the last 24 hours about the Super League, the Premier League clubs didn't expect the anger from the fans to be so extreme" (Bild)
• "The Super League clubs have decided to transfer their UCL trophies over to the Super League. Real Madrid will start with 13 Super League championships."
• Klopp condemns the ECL live on MNF
• Chelsea, Man City and Real Madrid to be kicked out of Champions League, Uefa member claims
• "Man United players angry with club over Super League reveal"
• PM Boris Johnson says "we'll do everything we can to make sure Super League does not go ahead"

Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Arsenal, Chelsea, Inter, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are the clubs announced as founding members.

Proposals have included a 20-team league, made up of 15 permanent members and five who would qualify annually.

This format would see two groups of 10 clubs, with the top four from each group going through to a knockout phase that would be similar to the current Champions League. Matches would still be midweek and could continue alongside traditional domestic competition. The main advantage for the 15 founders is guaranteed entry – and the revenue that goes with it – each year.

Even with the proposed changes to the Champions League, there remains a possibility teams could fail to qualify. The proposed European Super League would eliminate that risk.

Almost universal condemnation from everyone but the clubs involved. Gary Neville, the former Manchester United and England defender, was among those outraged by plans which could cause untold financial damage to smaller clubs - but create billions more for the top clubs.

"I'm a Manchester United fan and I have been for 40 years of my life but I'm absolutely disgusted," he told Sky Sports. "I'm disgusted with Manchester United and Liverpool most. Liverpool, they pretend 'You'll Never Walk Alone', the people's club, the fans' club. Manchester United, 100 years borne out of workers round here, and they're breaking away into a league without competition, that they can't be relegated from? It's an absolute disgrace."

Marcus Rashford (Man Utd)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (AC Milan)
Luke Shaw (Man Utd)
Bruno Fernandes (Man Utd) via Daniel Podence (Wolves)
James Milner (Liverpool)
Joao Cancelo (Man City)
Rafael Leao (Milan)
Konstantinos Tsimikas (Liverpool)
Arnau Pigmal (Man Utd academy player)

Gary Lineker (ex-Barcelona and Tottenham)
Jamie Carragher (ex-Liverpool)
Luis Figo (ex-Barcelona, Madrid & Inter)
Roberto Carlos (ex. Real Madrid and Inter)
Ian Wright (ex-Arsenal)
Rio Ferdinand (ex. Man Utd)
Roy Keane (ex-Man Utd) & Micah Richards (ex-Man City)
Gary Neville (ex. Man Utd)
Lukas Podolski (ex-Arsenal)
Bacary Sagna (Ex-Arsenal and Man City player)
Mesut Ozil (fenerbahce. Ex-Arsenal & Real Madrid player)
Kevin Prince Boateng (ex-Milan)
Dejan Lovren (Zenit. ex-Liverpool)
Ander Herrera (PSG. Ex-Man Utd player)
Luis Alberto (Lazio. Ex- Liverpool player and Barcelona youth) in response to Ander Herrera's story
Luca Toni (ex-Bayern and Juventus)
Danny Murphy (Ex-Liverpool) and Dion Dublin (Ex-Man Utd) on MOTD2

GT500KR

4y

what is the difference between champions league and european league like they have now

Vae

4y

ARSENAL INVITED

SignedTwice

4y

Europa league?

SignedTwice

4y

How's this the ucl when 15 teams are guaranteed to be in it no matter what just based off how big they are

SignedTwice

4y

Like arsenal has been garbage this year and yet under these rules they'd still be qualifying for this cup just cuz they're arsenal

GT500KR

4y

what is the difference between champions league and european league like they have now

BD32

4y

This s***'s gonna be mad dry by the end of the 1st season

HOV INNOCENT

4y

As a yanker I don’t understand but I feel like something probably should change to make the sport more accessible idk

Oblivion

4y

imagine thinking this nobody gonna be checking out for ucl anymore

interstellarflyin2

4y

What’s the point of this when ucl exists

Montreal

4y

Closed competition and no qualifying process so you don't share the revenues with other clubs.

The last place club in the Super League makes more than the winners of the Champions League.

Football lost today.

WINTER

4y

whats so bad about that

WINTER

4y

whats so bad about that

Montreal

4y

Well for one, Dinamo Zagreb eliminated Tottenham from the Europa League fair and square and are on pace to be excluded from European competitions altogether in 2021-22 due to their position in the league.

How is that fair that from merit clubs get excluded from competing in the highest european competition despite outperforming those clubs? Goes against the whole principal of European football of qualifying for competitions to compete in.

How do you exclude rich and historic clubs like Celtic, Ajax and Porto from a chance to compete at the highest level.