Neville still talking sense
Took their time though.
Souness.
The ESL contract was 170 pages long…
Holy shit
Gotta love listening to Carragher up on his high horse talking about respect for fans and everyone coming together.
Just don’t give him any stick on the motorway or he’ll gob in your child’s face.
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Fuck. I’m agreeing with Lallana
All English clubs are out say the bbc
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Well said Graham Potter
Liverpool & Arsenal confirmed out
Spurs confirmed as leaving
Arsenal said sorry
Interesting comment from Unherd.
Attacking the ESL as a greedy attempt to form a monopoly ignores the fact that football is a greedy monopoly already. There is one supplier of professional football in each country, and one organiser of European tournaments. The smaller clubs survive by extracting payments which they have not earned from the larger, more successful teams. The ESL is an attempt to create increased competition and (possibly) reduce the unearned share given to the smaller clubs. Predictably, those who depend on extracting rent from the larger clubs are up in arms that football might take place without them getting a cut.
There is, to the best of my knowledge, no human right to have a football club you support, still less any right for that club to play a specific list of opponents. That you may identify as a supporter places no more onus on it to play in the competitions you prefer than your pride in shopping at Waitrose forces it to stock your favourite brand of hummus. Unless you have bought shares, the amount of money you have spent gives you no more right to direct the club than a collector of Ferraris has to choose their next F1 driver. The clubs were bought in a legitimate way by the owners and, if they choose to deploy them in a particular fashion, that is their right. Insisting that the property rights of the owners be overturned in favour of the not famously clean UEFA is an odd moral hill to die on.
To an extent that is true… and the clubs recognised that they have a bigger opportunity to earn significantly more by having greater control of their rights… as they did with the PL… but the quote below sums its up best endnote surprised its from Levy
Levy said that Tottenham felt it was “important” to take part in “a possible new structure that sought to better ensure financial fair play and financial sustainability whilst delivering significantly increased support for the wider football pyramid”.
He is still banging the ‘better financial fair play’ card without ever having shared how Welling Utd would benefit from these clubs forcing the ESL… they just believe financial fair play is about them getting more as they have ‘earned’ it, and that if they earn it playing each other, there is no longer any obligation to share it with those they are playing who are ‘less worthy’ of the TV share.
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The FFP angle does make sense
The yanks run profitable sporting enterprises in the US because they have cost control mechanisms - they own some of the biggest football clubs in the world but cannot make a penny because they have to spend like crazy to ensure they get to the cash of the champions league and if they miss one year they are screwed
Maybe UEFA money should be given to the FAs to distribute and passed down the football pyramid - if the financial incentive to qualify isn’t there then maybe clubs won’t wreck themselves trying to do it
You could argue the same for the EPL
Might be too little too late but at least he has come forward to say sorry - bet we don’t see hide nor hair of the Glazers
Inter have gone
Maybe Perez should invite the remaining Spanish clubs to join his league. They could give it a really unique name like La Liga
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Improved for you, that league would certainly garner my muchos muchos interest.
Scorchio…
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Kitchen gizmo…
You must be living in LaLaland. 
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Sicario surely?