Howay

Hopefully your club gets it. You seem pretty desperate for it to work, so fingers crossed for you. Be glad to see the back of the super clubs, and the tag alongs like Spurs. FWIW I don’t know what that Spanish court is but I’m not sure how they have any jurisdiction over UEFA and FIFA

If true this is surely against the ESL and if so it’s dead in the water.

I’m sure everyone will be shocked to know Klopp has immediately started playing the victim and whinging here.

When he cuts out of the meeting of the “other 14” to call Mike ”Hi Mr Ashley... I mean sir, just wanted to ask if there’s been any further development in the design of the no fear cut off Jean shorts? There’s quite a demand from certain communities....” ”fack sake Lee I fort you were telling me about this fackin meeting. You’ve been told about this fackin weird jean short thing before, keep Bruce in a job and the no fear shorts are all yours”

”I count thirteen people, where’s the bloke from Newcastle?” muffled “I’m here” “Oh hi Lee, I forgot you like to hide under the table for decisions”

The other 14 clubs should start holding meetings too and clubbing together to vote in their interests, hopefully this underlines to the usual scabs i.e. Everton that they’re not part of that little club and they need to start to look out for their own interests, rather than those of where they aspire to be. Be nice if we can all move to remove Masters from his position, he’s just a complete shill for these 6 teams. Likely don’t have the votes but it’ll send a signal to these six that they’ll never get the votes to push any of their dog shit agendas.

Isn’t this wanker the head of this soopa doopa league? It sounds like it’s going to be AMAZING. They should also add VAR review over everything to make sure every decision is 100% right so that way the money is always going into the right pockets.

Spot on, it’s ridiculous this assumption that the leagues collapse without these teams. There will be a dip in the TV money due to Chinese/US interest splitting to some degree between the super league and the domestic leagues (more than likely in favor of super league at first but as time goes by who knows honestly), but within England the focus will stay with the Premier League and other domestic leagues. Most of the people in England that follow football don’t support one of these 6 teams. The money might decrease a bit for a period of time but that has no impact on fans imo, it’ll just return to a few years back where you pay £5m for a player you’re currently paying £15m for. Add to that a refreshed hierarchy of teams, owners likely making plays/gambles to get their foot in that door etc I think it’ll be far more interesting than Real Madrid v Liverpool for 4th time in a year.

Also can add that FIFA have their eyes on their own club World Cup type tournaments, this would put paid to anything like that which is why they will fight tooth and nail alongside UEFA on this.

Aye, I don’t understand this viewpoint that these breakaway teams stand much chance of winning the legal side of things, they’re going to get mullered. I know a Liverpool fan who brought this up and said surely they have thought through all the legal side of things before doing this, I genuinely don’t think they have I think they’re arrogant enough to believe everyone else will tow the line they’re setting. As PL pointed out there’s strong rules in place that stop teams playing in external competitions, straight away that will give the PL the strong hand in any legal sense as these teams all agreed to that. KCG is also right about internationals imo, it’s the same way how international teams can force players to play international matches (recent example was Matuidi iirc). They are FIFA owned tournaments, they’ll just require you to be registered with a club that plays in an FA approved division or something of that ilk, you can’t ban them from things like the Olympics I agree, but who cares about the Olympics football competition? Fwiw Diego I think this is absolutely something that’s better to be out of than in. It’s a mechanism built on pure greed and is wholly aimed at the Chinese and US markets. The rest of the game will move on quickly, this idea that the “other 14’s” league will crumble and struggle is a complete fallacy, one that these breakaway teams want everyone to believe.

Tbf he’s got far right views already so it likely is something he’s picked up from his neo nazi sites. He’s a Trump supporter, Covid denier, and he tried to buy the mackems, so he’s a total fucking tit, probably googled who the most racist clubs around are and went for them.

Agreed, it baffles me all these people on Twitter etc going “what’s the point in the league without these 6 teams? Who would watch” to which the answer is fans of everyone else. The game will move on and quickly imo, there will be a short term hit and disruption, maybe a drop in revenue for the PL as some of the international audiences focus on this super league, but would that even be a bad thing? It might help get the European leagues on slightly more level footing money wise. My point is the more level the playing field that results from this is the quicker the international market will come back. There’s no way a 12 team mini league that has the exact same teams in every year will sustain interest, especially when as you say a lot of top players will steer clear, you’ll get the ones that will move purely for money as we see when players move to China etc but by and large most want to play in internationals, domestic leagues etc. These people as well going “who would want to watch Everton and Leicester compete for the league? Or West Ham v Real Betis in the CL?” I guess they missed out on the fact that less than a decade prior to their first PL title Manchester City were starting Paulo Wanchope up front. The game will simply move on tbh, provided the teams are actually banned from every other competition. The only way this thing causes real long term problems imo is if FIFA, UEFA, and domestic leagues back down as then it just makes a mockery out of everything and ruins all competition, if we boot them out of everything then the game will quickly recover. It’s pure arrogance on their part to assume they matter so much that the game would be completely ruined if 12 clubs that have won a lot of the prior competitions leave.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theathletic.com/news/european-super-league-premier-league/i5ilPK1rFttI%3Famp%3D1 Not sure if it’s paywalled but it’s basically saying that the major leagues have announced any club that joins this breakaway would be banned from the domestic league. I can’t see it going ahead after that, it’s a hell of a risk for the clubs especially the PL ones. Agree with Chaser that there needs to be punishment now even if they don’t go ahead with it. It can’t be something they keep threatening to do to try and influence things. It’s also high time the 14 other clubs in the PL started just block voting against these wankers, especially the Evertons of the league who have often sided with them. Should start pushing for things like pooling and splitting the TV money throughout the entire league system rather than just the PL etc, as it would be a further safeguard for clubs who are at risk of relegation and would mean you’re in a better spot to retain players and push to get back. Personally I hope they leave and get barred from the PL, I think it would at least give us a more interesting league for a bit. Who knows maybe the PL might push through the Saudi bid for us without having Liverpool and Spurs whinging for a block.

What a fucking mess. My initial thought was that we’d be rid of them from the PL but see from what you and ewerk have said that they’d remain in the English leagues. Total load of rubbish. Mind I don’t see how the same sides playing each other each season in a closed shop competition like that could hold people’s interest in the long term? I suppose I’m coming from the perspective that I barely care about the CL and dislike all 6 of these clubs tbf.

I admit I haven’t read too much about it, would this stop the CL? I see UEFA are opposed to it so I assume we’d just carry on with the CL and al the leagues as if these bloated clubs never existed.

Good riddance to the bloated boring cunts. They can fuck right off and play in their shite “super” league while the rest of the country can get on with the normal league system. I hope they do realize that naturally some of them will become the whipping boys, and the lower income members of that league right? I just find it such an absurd concept, so fans of Liverpool and Manchester United won’t be able to brag about being champions of England anymore, they can try and brag about this pish but who will give a fuck? I’ll personally put way more stock in the PL without them than their stupid super duper league. What the rest of the league need to do is put in stipulations that if they leave and decide they want to be back they have to start at the bottom of the ladder.

I heard the commentator literally say “Newcastle have been set up perfectly by Bruce” while West Ham were all over us in the second half. I get the pricks that ignore the games completely and just lazily go off the results or the position at the exact time they bother looking, but that wanker is literally sat at the game watching

I genuinely think Joelinton is getting worse as a player

Shock that when we finally attack a side down to 10 men that happens. Can we fucking fire Bruce yet ffs. It’s insane that wankers like Edwards will be chomping at the bit to give Bruce credit for this one too, it’s plain as day this was a result completely in spite of his awful instructions.

Completely highlights why Bruce shouldn’t be managing a premier league side this.

What a first half. West Ham are a joke, the fact these are as high up as they are highlights how frustrating it is that Ashley has clipped our clubs wings. I know they’re clearly having an off day but they’re still not that good of a side and they’re 4th ffs.

After launching a well timed imaginary #venture into #British #publishing he should look into setting up a company to sell beepers, maybe VCRs too. What a fucking nob he is, only a club as shite as the mackems could attract a bloke as delusional and trampy as that.

Lee Ryder (I know) is saying the “new owners” reference is with regard to the new owners of the club shop - being Castore- and not the Saudis being new owners of the club. Think this utter shit update is far more likely than Ashley accidentally letting slip anything about the takeover.

I just imagine Masters crawling under a desk somewhere in the offices the arbitration is being held only to find Charnley there “I’m sorry Richard, I just like to get away sometimes, It’s really any time I have to make a decision really I just hide under here. That Bruce is doing a shocking job I just really have been hoping he quits for the last few month so I wouldn’t have to do anything” “Tell me about it Lee, this whole Saudi kerfuffle put me in a right fluffery buffery, I had that Levy and the Americans from Liverpool telling me I needed to reject it but I just couldn’t make a decision so I just kept telling everyone it was close” “ooooh that’s a good one, Mike wants me to fire all the club shop people something about Furlough and saving money, I was thinking about scaletrix so zone out when he talks about business stuff, anyway maybe saying something about the takeover being close will help!”

He seems stable enough. Pretty much sums up Sunderland that one of their fans would go through all this effort over a player as fucking shite as Colback