The discussion around the proposed Super League for European football is now a day longer than the league.
Informally, of course.
When the six founding members of the Premier League of England announced that they no longer intended to be part of the project, the Super League was essentially put on life support with no chance of revival. Juventus president Andrea Agnelli told Reuters that the project could not continue without Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.
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“I am confident about the beauty of the project, and it will be added to the pyramid.” Agnoy said. “But I don’t think this project is still up and running.”
The Super League is none other, even though no authority has yet stated the time of death.
Here’s what it might mean:
What was the super league?
The idea was to take the 15 most powerful clubs in European football and to hold an annual continental competition that effectively suppressed UEFA’s wildly popular Champions League.
It was supported by an American bank and was expected to generate more revenue for members than the current Champions League – and, of course, guaranteed participation.
There were to be 15 founding members, five of whom qualified on an annual basis. Initially only 12 were involved, however, with Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund of Germany and Paris Saint-Germain of France refusing to attend.
One of the reasons cited for its launch was the COVID-19 epidemic, which has given significant revenue to all world football clubs in terms of gate and ancillary stadium income.
How and why did ESL crumble so quickly?
The simple answer is that it united such a wide constituency that it became untenable for those found to continue to be the founders of the 12 Super League clubs. The ESL concept was met with resistance from some of the game’s foremost figures, from managers (Jurgen Klopp of Liverpool and Pep Guardiola of Manchester City) to players (AC Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic) to football analysts (Jamie Cargrahar and Gary Neville) By. Fans themselves (who staged protests outside Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge Stadium and posted banners at the gate of Liverpool’s Enfield Stadium, declaring “RIP” for the revered club).
The more complex element of this process, however, is the lack of how veterinarians and market research have been conducted about a maneuver that is not inferior to the way a European football competition is conducted. It was a rebellion supported only within the boardroom from which it was launched.
The “Super League” concept has existed for years as a means for the sport’s most powerful clubs to obtain concessions from UEFA about the conduct of Champions League competition. But this time the founding clubs announced its formation on the eve of UEFA, introducing major changes to the structure of the Champions League. They had to get serious about passing with it, and they were, until they could not.
Did Fan Backlash Kill the Super League?
As much as all the public uproar was about – and it caused a hell of a lot – the biggest shock could come when FIFA president Gianni Infantino threatened Super League clubs that they could not be “half-and-half-out globally” Huh. Football scenario.
FIFA’s control of global football is in a way foreign to American sports fans and leagues, mainly because of the importance of the World Cup. The championship for which an NFL player aspires is the Super Bowl. For many professional football players, as much as they can win the Premier League or Serie A title or the Champions League title, the World Cup is not at all.
Infantino’s statement came as a warning, mostly implied that if the club launches the Super League without approval, which was not forthcoming, players from those teams may be ineligible for international competition. Expire in
“If some choose to go their own way, they have to live with the results of their choice,” Infantino said. “It should be absolutely clear.”
Anyone else have influence?
According to Reuters’ Simon Evans, the political backlash, which included loud condemnation from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, could possibly be the most consequential in pushing ESL’s founding members to leave the project.
This was not a difficult situation for Johnson. Apparently fans of England’s clubs below the First Division would be opposed, as well as 14 were not invited. Fans of six English teams, including the founders of the Super League, also protested, with Johnson speaking out against ESL with too much universal support.
“We will put everything on the table to stop it,” Johnson said in front of Parliament. “We are examining every option from governance reform to competition law and the mechanisms by which football can take its place.”
French President Emmanuel Macron also publicly opposed the project, but none of France’s La Liga teams agreed to participate. The French president said in a statement to Reuters, “The President of the Republic welcomes the position of French clubs for refusing to participate in a European Football Super League project, which threatens the principle of solidarity and sports worthiness. “
What will be the result for the clubs involved?
Edward Woodward resigned from his post as executive vice president of Manchester United on Tuesday, which was seen as a result of a failed ESL initiative.
It is possible that the Premier League or UEFA may issue some type of sanctions. But neither can be too weak to support their favorite clubs without risking the possible vicissitudes of fan sentiment.
There would be a lot of public agitation about forcing owners who were involved in various clubs to divide their interest. There is a public “FSG out” campaign aimed at the Fenway Sports Group, which owns Liverpool Football Club. FSG appears to have committed a massive error by not informing popular manager Jurgen Klopp about its actions in advance. But lead owner John Henry oversees the club’s revival in the late 2000s, a resurgence that included the LFC’s first Premier League title in 2020 and the Champions League title in 2019.
Public anger directed at him could explain Henry’s decision to become the sole owner to issue a personal public apology among the ESL founders.
“I am sorry, and I am responsible for the unnecessary negativity that has surfaced over the past few days,” Henry said in a video released via social media. “This is something I will not forget and the fans have the power today and will continue rightly so.”
So what happens to the Champions League?
The ruckus over the Super League buried the announcement that UEFA had selected the Champions League to improve on the 36-team competition in the 2024–25 season that would no longer include a group stage.
The new system is unnecessarily complex, but may produce more revenue for the clubs involved. This would certainly require more games from the players involved. They can currently play after reaching the final of the Champions League. 13. Under the new format, the team reaching the finals will play 17 games.
Instead of the eight groups of four teams involved in the main of the Champions League season, there will be a single league in which each team plays five home games and five road games, with the teams prioritized by performance and the schedule of each team drawn is. Random.
The top eight teams will qualify for the round of 16 elimination phase of the tournament. Teams placed between the ninth and 24th teams will play a two-legged series to determine the next eight teams. The tournament will then advance through a two-stage round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals. The final will be a single-game, Super-Bowl event.
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