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European Super League: La Liga president Javier Tebas calls for greater financial controls on clubs like Man City and PSG Tebas declares Super League "dead" amid insistence from Real Madrid and Barcelona that the project remains necessary; Tebas says that La Liga are not planning any punishment for El Clasico sides or Atletico Madrid Manchester City were among six English clubs which signed up to the breakaway league on Sunday, while PSG rejected the opportunity to be involved, before it quickly fell through under global pressure from fans and politicians. Tebas appeared to suggest that many of the teams who signed up for the breakaway league may have been motivated by their struggles to match the financial clout of City, who are owned by United Arab Emirates deputy prime minister, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and PSG, who are owned by Qatar Sports Investments. "State-owned clubs like Man City and PSG - these clubs need to face some controls," Tebas said during a virtual news conference on Thursday. "They haven't done anything outrageous so far, but we will see." https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12283936/european-super-league-la-liga-president-javier-tebas-calls-for-greater-financial-controls-on-clubs-like-man-city-and-psg

Perez is saying no one has left the super league as no one has paid the penalty fee. He didn't said how much it was.....

ROM RAGE Chelsea European Super League exit due to Roman Abramovich feeling ‘livid’ at being ‘blindsided’ by backlash Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck ultimately led the Blues' exit from the European Super League. But it was Roman Abramovich's anger that brought the whole house of cards down. The Chelsea owner is said to have been "blindsided" by the strength of the backlash to Sunday's announcement - and then "livid" that he had been misinformed about the likely reaction. As the pressure grew, with fans gathering outside Stamford Bridge, Buck urged Abramovich and the club hierarchy to make moves to withdraw from the project. And the billionaire oligarch agreed, shocked to the core by how quickly everything had fallen apart. Abramovich and Chelsea started getting cold feet on Sunday when the stunning news about the Super League emerged and football united in its opposition to the breakaway. According to a source, Abramovich "had no idea that there would be such a backlash". Chelsea fan groups and former players were part of the chorus of disapproval. And when it became clear that supporters were going to take their protest to Stamford Bridge and shut down Fulham Road, the writing was really on the wall. Playing legend Petr Cech, now the club's technical and performance advisor, came out of the stadium to beg fans to allow the Chelsea and Brighton team coaches through ahead of the Premier League match. But by then the Blues were already trying to disentangle themselves from a league that had been formally announced less than 48 hours earlier. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/14713129/Chelsea-abramovich-european-super-league-backlash-buck/

Maybe that's why the timing of when this came out? To pressure for that? Because the timing is so weird unless done with a purpose to get something else.

The best banner of this whole thing:

Despite all the shenanigans he is still a good owner. I'm amazed how he let himself get into this, but despite that he did good in realizing his mistake. Now I don't know how things will change because it seems the government will do some reviews and all that good stuff. How that affects ownership, we shall see. But Roman is still a good owner and I want him to continue.

No money at this time to pay for that 😪 If anyone does, please put the whole article so I can read, please.

Probably, but the only image I get is that of our fans coming out in full to protest. For a "rent club" with "soulless fans" the world saw that it was not like that. I think the reason why at times our atmosphere at games is not as loud as say Liverpool is because of the price. Prices are too high and if it was lower many of these people would be in there shouting for our team. So yesterday showed that our fans are not dead, are not rent boys and are not soulless.

Let's hope there is no fine and Real Madrid are not keeping no money. Because the timing of it all is so weird. They did it because they had a deadline and had to do it now. All this is so weird to be honest, and let's hope Real Madrid does not come benefiting by getting some type of compensation.

They knew that this would happen. Even Perez I assumed. The question is why go ahead and do it? I still think something is fishy. They might be doing away with some money. As one reporter put it: What happens with the billions of pounds in start-up money put forward by American bankers JP Morgan is anyone's guess.

I agree something does not sit well with all this. The way it came out is so suspicious.

Interesting if real Madrid gets the sign up bonus. Or some of them get some secret money. As they knew this was going to failure from the get go, so they did it to get something, me thinks.

Well it helped Liverpool drop a point yesterday. 😃 So thank you SL for distracting Liverpool! Now let's win this game today.

Dang miss the people at the stadium. Fútbol without fans is nothing.

Awesome!

True that being said I do hope we back out of this. If we don't have Bayern, PSG and Dortmund is not that great for me. AC Milan, Arsenal are nowhere near good enough for this. And as many people said it feels like we are bailing out Real Madrid and Juventus for their nonsense. Let them figure, they might fall out of the limelight for a while like it happen with Liverpool. But they will be back eventually.

Well this guy has a point: The argument over relegation and so on seems stupid. Do games in the NFL, MLB and so on suffer from it not being a factor? When teams don’t do so well it gives them the opportunity to rebuild without the stress they may go down. The clubs could corner the market in players, but don’t they do that anyway? The point about that the games will be boring is also baseless. NFL, NBA has the same teams and people still watch it.

If Bayern is not part of it, no point in going forward then.

‘I have always wanted to see a European League’ I think it’s a great idea as I have always wanted to see a European League. In 1888 many showed concerns that the Football League would be the “end of football” but like now it was about money and always will be. I hope that it may also be the end of international football, which over the years has become dire – most national teams would struggle in the English third tier. As an armchair viewer of the Premier League and Champions League, my hope would be that the standard would only get better. Port Vale are not going to figure so I have no team in the fight. I love going there and watching them despite the poor quality but that is another thing altogether. The argument over relegation and so on seems stupid. Do games in the NFL, MLB and so on suffer from it not being a factor? When teams don’t do so well it gives them the opportunity to rebuild without the stress they may go down. The clubs could corner the market in players, but don’t they do that anyway? Leicester and West Ham seem the only ones who have some and if those six left it would mean more opportunity for younger players to come through. Tim Diggles, 67, artist and Port Vale fan

It is a power grab. They are forcing UEFA hand in this.

More money, people are never satisfied. But the problem is that how much Chelsea will get compare to Real Madrid and such?

Another interesting point that was brought up from someone of the Premier league, is that these big 6 are not breaking away from the PL but from uefa, the Cl. That is their problem and not PL. So PL would be silly to do something against the big 6. If anything the rest of the clubs can go to CL and play there.

Klopp did said something interesting, UEFA and FIFA are also about money. They are jamming the clubs with more fixtures, and expanding the Club world cup for more games because of money.

I feel like the Batman movie at this moment.