European Super League imminent?

[Toadstool]

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Considering Henderson is captain of one of the 6 founding clubs you'd think this would seriously undermine Super League plans, assuming of course he's got the support of his team mates and the PL Captain's response will also be to unanimously resist these plans.

The players have contracts - if they want to walk away from those contracts - that costs them money - when push comes to shove enough of the best players would want to play in this league anyway.

[City123]

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Filled with unaccustomed optimism, a 4-part story. pic.twitter.com/X03HAu4KjT

— Martin Calladine (@uglygame) April 20, 2021

Dare we dream?

[City123]

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Looks like the players may be about to kick-off.

EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool skipper Jordan Henderson has called an emergency meeting of the Premier League captains to discuss a response to ESL. More @MailSport shortly.

— Mike Keegan (@MikeKeegan_DM) April 20, 2021

A number of players have already voiced their disapproval individually, a joint statement would be great

[City123]

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Hmm. They were the obvious candidates in my eyes as they've pulled out early in recent rights bids.

And if it isn't them - who has the money to gamble on this working? Surely the ESL clubs didn't announce this before getting some commitment from a group of broadcasters?!

They've wanted to sell the rights to their own games for years, I imagine it'll all be done via their websites

[Optimistic Nick]

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The players have contracts - if they want to walk away from those contracts - that costs them money - when push comes to shove enough of the best players would want to play in this league anyway.

I'm not sure about that. I don't pretend to be best mates with Ronaldo but my guess is that he'd rather have one more world cup than play in this.

I wonder if clubs electing out of domestic league and European competitions is a breach of these player contracts. If Salah has a goalscoring bonus for EPL goals- how does that work now he can't play in it?

[billy.ronson]

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I would have thought the clubs will use their own TV channels alongside a streaming platform called SuperLeague TV as the model they are looking to use follows US Sports as this is all about securing as much money as possible.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Filled with unaccustomed optimism, a 4-part story. pic.twitter.com/X03HAu4KjT

— Martin Calladine (@uglygame) April 20, 2021

Dare we dream?

No need to, it won't happen. Whilst 'real' fans are hugely outnumbered by plastics across the World, they're the ones that are up close to the club, it's employees, along with local and national media. All told a damaging exercise for these clubs' images, and a telling sign just how little these owners understand the concept of following and supporting your team. The awful thing is we're now going to have to put up with all those conciliatory, fawning statements from the 'big six'...

[Monster munch]

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The more the story has gathered pace over the past 48hrs, the more I personally think it won't amount to anything. I've been glued to the media in fascination and its just getting farcical now.
There's no way they can proceed with it and i'll bet the clubs executives are having internal shit your pants meetings discussing how they can get out of it showing face and minimising embarrassment.

[Rjk]

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The more the story has gathered pace over the past 48hrs, the more I personally think it won't amount to anything. I've been glued to the media in fascination and its just getting farcical now.
There's no way they can proceed with it and i'll bet the clubs executives are having internal shit your pants meetings discussing how they can get out of it showing face and minimising embarrassment.

it'll be interesting to see what happens next, will they keep pushing for it, or try to extract some kind of concession from uefa to make it go away.
if it is defeated then the punishments need to be severe and stricter laws brought in to prevent it from happening again

[delmbox]

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The fact that helping shut it down would be an easy PR win for Boris doesn't bode well for the idea either

[Freitag 4.17]

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I think it's looking less likely, I think the clubs involved are going to be ****ed.

[Rjk]

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https://twitter.com/ben_rumsby/status/1384508716196585474?s=19

[City123]

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it'll be interesting to see what happens next, will they keep pushing for it, or try to extract some kind of concession from uefa to make it go away.
if it is defeated then the punishments need to be severe and stricter laws brought in to prevent it from happening again

Wouldn't UEFA be in the stronger position though if the clubs back down? There usual threat for concessions would be gone because they've bottled it and future threats wouldn't be taken as seriously?

[splott parker]

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The players have contracts - if they want to walk away from those contracts - that costs them money - when push comes to shove enough of the best players would want to play in this league anyway.

Wouldn’t those contracts be under Premier League conditions? Perhaps they’d be null and void if the goalposts were moved

[City123]

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BREAKING
I understand Chelsea are now preparing documentation to request withdrawing from the ESL

— Dan Roan (@danroan) April 20, 2021

Chelsea have bottled it