JP Morgan have pulled out of their £3.5billion backing of the European Super League after plans for a breakaway competition fell through this week. The Premier League ‘Big Six’ were the first to withdraw from the Super League on Tuesday evening, just 48 hours after they formed half of the founding members of the new competition. … Read more
Labour has called on Downing Street to release minutes of a meeting involving Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward just days before the European Super League was launched. Mr Woodward is understood to have been in No 10 for a meeting with officials rather than Boris Johnson, with sources insisting it was Covid-related. But The … Read more
The Super League debacle is going to make the City and Wall Street very wary of trying to squeeze more money out of football again, says ALEX SEBASTIAN By Alex Sebastian for This is Money Published: 14:44 BST, 22 April 2021 | Updated: 14:44 BST, 22 April 2021 The ‘Super League’ lasted barely three days. … Read more
Ministers drew up radical plans to slash the cash the European Super League could earn from broadcast rights in Britain by forcing the ill-conceived project to be shown free-to-air, Sportsmail can reveal. The extraordinary proposal was part of the ‘legislative bomb’ that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden were preparing to drop … Read more
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has continued his war path against those who masterminded the doomed European Super League, including Andrea Agnelli, Ed Woodward and Florentino Perez. A civil war within football threatened to break out after the 12 founding members announced their participation in the European Super League – a breakaway tournament that was set … Read more
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has refused to back down in his defence of the disastrous European Super League and insists that anyone who thinks the project is dead is ‘completely wrong’. Perez, who is also the president of the Super League, has come out swinging just 24 hours after the controversial project collapsed, which … Read more
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has refused to back down in his defence of the disastrous European Super League and insists that anyone who thinks the project is dead is ‘completely wrong’. Perez, who is also the president of the Super League, has come out swinging just 24 hours after the controversial project collapsed, which … Read more
So we start with a blank sheet of paper, and on it we write: ‘[INSERT NAME] is a football club playing in the English football pyramid, and, as such, can only participate in competitions sanctioned by the English Football Association, UEFA and FIFA. ‘Any agreement or attempt to participate in a competition not recognised by … Read more
Shares in Manchester United dive after European Super League plan backfires By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 21 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 21 April 2021 Own goal: Shares in Manchester United have slumped following the European Super League debacle Shares in football giants Manchester United and Juventus dived after a … Read more
Angry football fans are calling for English clubs involved in the formation of the now scrapped European Super League to be punished, insisting their own clubs have been fined or had points deducted for lesser offences. Every member of the Premier League’s so-called Big Six has now withdrawn from plans to form a breakaway competition, … Read more