The European Super League

[Stavros]

Here is a curious turn of events -the proposal to create a European Super League of football clubs has provoked this response from the UK Govt-

"The culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, has pledged that the government will do “whatever it takes” to stop English football clubs joining a breakaway European Super League (ESL) and announced a wider review into the governance of the sport."
https://www.theguardian.com/football...n-super-league

So let's get this straight -a Conservative Govt that one assumes is committed to maintan the role of Markets in the economy, is opposed to market forces in football? Or could it be, that with its policies of social control during the Covid Pandemic, the virtual takeover of the economy by Central Govt, and now the opposition to the ESL, we have a Communist Govt, and Boris Johnson -who declared last year 'I am not a Communist! -is in fact the UK's first Communist Prime Minister?

The owners of the ESL clubs want what America has got -a self-perpetuating money-making machine. Football, as a game played by millions, is of secondary interest. And is it a fact that markets always win in the end?

But without the Germans, can the ESL survive? And does Tottenham Hotspur deserve to be in the ESL?

[Stavros]

So this cookie has crumbled, but who was doing the baking? And what will they come up with next in their search for yet more of your money?

[Stavros]

And it now emerges Boris Johnson met Ed Woodward, Executive Vice-Chairman of Manchester United (salary £3 million a year, one wonders why he bothers) -presumaby to discuss the ESL? But was Mohammed bin Salman zooming in from Riyadh to join them? We haven't been told.

[sidney111]

Glad it failed, hope the petition for a independent regulator does some good, football needs to be made sustainable, no idea how that’s going to happen though lol.

[holzz]

they'll just expand the champions league. they'll get their way somehow to make more money.

I get football clubs are companies - all companies are out to maximise revenues. But not by gutting the football structure as it stands.