Football is dead. Rich people killed it!

Yesterday it was announced that 12 elite European teams are forming a so called “European Super League”. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Milan, Inter Milan, Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United, Man City, Tottenham and Chelsea. These are the clubs that want to steal the game. These so called elite clubs agreed on forming a closed competition, where teams are not chosen on sporting merits, but riches. The greed won.

What is the European super league?

The idea of the ESL is to be played instead of the Champions league. 3 more teams are expected to get invitation as founding members. And 5 more teams to join the project and form 20 teams league. Two 10 team groups, top 4 of every goes on to play quarter finals. Champion to be decided every season. Founding members to be part of the league every season, with the other 5 rotating. 5 clubs will get invitations every season.

Founding clubs

Let’s say few words about every of the 12 founding clubs and their owners:

Real Madrid

– UCL is embroidered in this clubs DNA. Owner Florentino Perez talks about forming the ESL for years no. He will be the chairman of this new formed league. His greed is in the foundations of all this. He doesn’t want his team to “waste” his time in games against teams from: Bulgaria, Norway, Greece, Netherlands etc. They were knocked out by Lyon and Ajax in the last 10 years. Perez wants to be sure that this never happens again.

Barcelona

– “Mes que un club” – “More than club”, they present themselves as people’s club. A club owned by it’s fans basically. Maybe the debts they are forced them to be part of this league. But it’s a betrayal towards all of their fans, and everything this club claims to stands for.

Atletico Madrid

– Miguel Angel Gil Martin always says that they are not as rich as Real and Barca so they do the things in their own way. Seems like they want to be as the rich clubs, no matter what their owner says.

Juventus

– Andrea Agnelli is the other owner that wants the ESL to happen for many years now. He’ll be one of the vice-presidents of the league. Juventus were knocked out by Porto, Lyon, Ajax in the last three season. Teams they believe are not good enough to compete against…

Milan

– The American owned club is without a doubt one of Europe’s best clubs, history wise. But since they won the Scudetto in 2011 they’ve finished 2nd, 3rd. And since that 3rd place in 2013 they’ve never qualified for the Champions league spots. They finished 5th, 6th, and 7th in the last 3 seasons. How they belong to this group of teams?

Inter Milan

– owned by Steven Zhang. Steven Zhang is a member of the UEFA Competitions Committee. By taking part of this project he goes directly against everything his position represents. In the last 10 years they played CL football 4 times. They went past the group stage only once: in 2011. They went out of the group stages in the last 3 editions of the Champions league. Couldn’t even make a decent run in the Europa league.

Manchester City

– since Sheikh Mansour’s arrival City became one of the best teams on the continent. Last season when there were investigations of City breaking the FFP rules, all big European clubs were against them. Every club in Europe wanted City punished and out of the Champions league. Now they all want a new league for all the rich clubs…

Manchester United

– Every Man United fan hates the Glaziers. There were so many fan’s strikes in the years against the American owners of United. Now Joel Glazer will be one of the vices in the ESL. The club once run by sir Alex Ferguson as different, as not million spenders is no longer here. The club surrendered to greed.

Liverpool

– John W. Henry was once worshiped at Merseyside for buying the club and saving it from bankruptcy. He became fan favorite because of his work with Jurgen Klopp, him going to home games and his beautiful wife Linda Pizzuti. Liverpool is a working class city with working class fans. “You’ll never walk alone” is much more than just a song, more than a hymn. People believe in this, and they feel betrayed. John W. Henry will be vice-president of the new formed league, but he will always walk alone.

Arsenal

– Stan Kroenke is another who’ll be a vice-president in the new formed league. This will be Arsenal’s 5th season in a row where they fail to reach top 4. They have never won the Champions league. Their only European trophy is the UEFA Cup winners cup in 1994. And they think they belong in this group of teams while struggling in 10th place in the English Premier league.

Tottenham

– Daniel Levi is famously greedy owner. One Champions league final in their whole history and they think they are a big club. Their last ever trophy was 2008 Carling cup…

Chelsea

– Roman Abramovich was the first oligarch taking over a EPL team. Chelsea became a top club after that takeover. Their fans are strongly against such competition.

In total 4 of the 12 founding clubs has never won the Champions league. And they think they are elite European clubs.

Refused to take part:

These teams are the bright light in European football. They refused the invitation and stated they won’t take part of such shameful organization. Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and PSG, sound like the voice of reason.

War against it:

The positive side of all this is that UEFA, FIFA and the local associations showed that they still care about football. FIFA declared an open war to the founding team. It was earlier announced that FIFA may ban ESL players from representing their nations in FIFA competitions. English FA also said that ESL team won’t be allowed into the English premier league. Even the premier Boris Johnson said he’ll work on punishing the rebelling teams. All English media slammed this decision. “Telegraph”, “Daily mail”, “Daily mirror”, even the “S*n” issued the FA to take actions against the teams. The top 4 fight is usually the most dramatic battle in the Premier league. Now it becomes useless. The teams that can’t reach European football spots with football means, try everything they can to still be part of the big money. UEFA even announced that the ESL teams might be discarded from this year’s Champions league and Europa league. So the whole football world is in war with these 12 teams now. Who’ll compromise on their demands is the question that worries all football fans across the world.

My theory:

All this ESL idea is just a way the rich clubs blackmail UEFA to make the Champions league the way they want it to be. More spots for English, Spanish, Italian teams, less spots for team from Easter Europe and not just. European runs like Ajax’s, Lyon, Porto, and other teams that don’t belong to the big 12 to be cut. No spot for team like Leicester that is breaking into the traditional big 6 in England. Football to be sport just for the rich clubs. No place for equality in European football.

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