European Superleague teams to be announced today

[Steveo]

Run themselves better than who? United? Chelsea? City? Us?

The massive TV money is there rightly or wrongly because of the history of the sport in this country and most crucially of all - a highly competitive league.

You are suggesting this movie - with a great cast, superb plot, sumptuous story line and direction as virtually irrelevant but for the star actor. Just throw all the money at him/her and screw the rest. Ip to them to make their names. I expected more from you to be honest.

As for wasting their money - look at the league table. Look at our spending in the last 2 years and look at the table. Who has wasted money and who has failed to spend? You will see who is running themselves better.

From top of the world to nowhere in the blink of an eye - dropping the football - as they say while chasing the $ollars - a closed off franchised hell hole of cash cow...

Get real

[Steveo]

FSG need to focus on this club for a change - build that stand - invest at the required level in the team and keep quiet...

Then perhaps things will be ok

[jr81]

John Henry released a video statement taking sole responsibility for Liverpools involvement. Saying all the English clubs knew the project wouldn't go ahead without fans support. I don't think they needed to go though the last 2 days to find that out.
He needs to stump up plenty of cash in the summer as way of an apology 😊

[Nineteenx]

A few of you are not reading or misreading this a little, i' said quite clearly 'not give them what they're asking for', but make at least some concession, i'm sure the Palace chairman would be agreeable "Supermarkets don't give free hand outs to corner shops"

With City's and Chelsea's spending now the latter have a proper manager, it's going to be a 2 team league anyway, the only way we compete with that and be able to assemble a squad to compete in all competitions is with a fairer slice of the cake more representative of what we bring in

[Insidious]

This endless appetite for big spending is precisely why these clubs wanted to found the Super League thing in the first place.

Football should be sustainable. The problem (big picture here) isn't us not spending enough - it's too many football clubs spending on the back of massive debt. Football needs reform. Financial Fair Play is a pretty sound idea, sadly not implemented at all. Salary caps would be excellent. Regulation would be excellent.

I'm saying that as someone who feels that FSG's position is now untenable. But if they're going, I want them all to go - Glazers, Abramovich, Levy, the lot. The abolition of the Super League is a battle won. There's a War for Football that lies ahead.

[eggy81]

A statement of a different style from the Milan ultras.

Milan supporters group Curva Sud released a different kind of statement that hit out at the world of football in general.

“Honestly, it makes us laugh to see all those people in the control room of football suddenly claim we fans are first and foremost.

“The Super League is just the latest in a long line of innumerable manoeuvres over decades that has made football into a business.

“The birth of this new competition would certainly be another shove to the football of old, which is by now a distant memory, and will inevitably obscure the tradition of the various national leagues, robbing football of the undeniable principle of sporting meritocracy.

“But the thing that most leaves us indignant is the hypocrisy of all those who contributed to making this sport nothing but a business, those who today stand up in name of the fans, but only because they saw their remunerative and seemingly untouchable project fall apart.

“Football did belong to the people until the 1990s, when the Champions League was born, destroying the old European Cup. From that moment, an unbreachable chasm has been created between the big and small clubs.

“Football did belong to the people even when nobody lifted a finger to stop the increase of ticket prices that was imposed by some Presidents.

“Football did belong to the people even when nobody stepped in to stop the rise of the super agents, who took player salaries to ever more astronomical figures, which could only be sustained with TV rights, the same TV companies that imposed increasingly chaotic fixture lists, with games on improbable days and kick-off times.

“Football did belong to the people even when rules were imposed to stop any rapport between the players and the fans.

“Football did belong to the people even when Supercoppa Finals were played on other continents or the dates of some games were changed a few days before kick-off, damaging those fans who had booked trains or planes to get to the stadium.

“Football did belong to the people even when some clubs were allowed to circumvent Financial Fair Play, while others with less influential Presidents were penalised.

“Football did belong to the people even when the World Cup was forced to Qatar in 2022, despite moving the entire calendar and disregarding human rights violations.

“We could list numerous other examples to show the absolute hypocrisy of the words we’re hearing from the football chiefs over the last 48 hours.

“The Super League is just the latest disgusting step, but those who took football to this point are no less grotesque, so save us these ludicrous performances of rhetoric and morality.

“Now that the money is running out, feel free to fight it out between yourselves, but don’t you dare name the fans. PIGS!

[Steveo]

A fairer slice of the cake wouldn’t hurt - not sure how it is measured without bias.

The ESL is quite different as I am sure you know.

Either way - the second the big one was won - and those bonuses were due to kick in - these frauds shut up shop - despite the big signings being payed fro by sales.

They did so while chasing this unholy agenda - an agenda at the cost of the real supporters and to the benefit of ONLY them.

The backlash has been OTT IMO - no doubt about that BUT it has shown these owners and particularly the American drivers of this NFL mark 2 ( JP Morgan - Amazon - The Glazers and F$G - to fuck off!

[LEGS]

Im with Nineteen in some of what he says.

I mean greed is greed at the end of the day.

Teams in the bottom six/seven wanted last season voided that wasnt to screw us over but it was to make sure they stayed in the league.

It would of screwed us if they got their way though.

What the likes of Palace are saying is we can screw over Burton..Stevenage..Port Vale but no way are taking from the big six.

YES it was wrong what the 12 clubs did but lets not pretend they are the only greedy clubs in the world.

We now have people some of our fans kissing Nevilles arse after he used the word "hates" us on Sunday.

This bloke wanted last season voided, he also sounded like a Tory in November siding up with his mate moaning about hotels not being open wonder why ??

He also tried to lead the England national team on strike as his mate Riio didnt turn up for a drugs test.....he is a twat and Klopp is right to call him out at least stick to the script.

You are seeing rival fans saying Klopp or Tuchel didnt go far enough sorry but Klopp was interviewed 40 minutes before a game you know that is his job to get results he isnt a director !

[Steveo]

That Curva Sud statement is epic.

Kinda shows why you don’t listen to US or Australian (Murdoch media) voices about this sport.

They don’t have the vaguest notion of what they have ruined in their pursuit of money, because they never had it.

[Steveo]

@ LEGS I love Klopp to bits BUT there was more than a touch of the company line being dished out.

Shankly would have ripped its arse off!