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Maybe Chelsea will have to refrain from loaning out 350 players every season now.

Absolutely, if anything positive comes from this it would be that.

Reckon this is a possibility. All these big power owners pulling away their purse strings and stopping any of these clubs buying players. Could go that way. At least we might keep Ings now.

Utd fans rejoice if that's the case.

I'd love to see that, but I think we all know how this shapes out. Brushed under a carpet and they hope we'll all forget! …Until next time.

Nothing will happen, they'll be lauded for withdrawing and it will be forgotten that at one point they were ready to turn their back on football. There is no guts in Uefa/Fifa/PL to do anything to these clubs now. It will carry on as normal, and give it a year and we'll have another proposal - whether that's a super duper ultra league or 'project big picture'. The reality is that these super wealthy clubs are staring at a world they've never seen before - financial struggle. On top of that, they are paying players like Messi almost £1m a week. This is all that's made these big clubs act, they've spent obscene amounts of money and the chickens are now coming to roost - they can't sustain it, so they are looking for ways to run away from the problem and bury it at the expense of other, less glamorous teams. Not sure how they thought it would be allowed.

Oh yeah for sure, non-entity faces running these clubs. All this has shown up is their total lack of understanding of 'football - not soccer. This is a fan sport and they thought it was a media show pony. Wrong.

BREAKING: All 12 clubs are meeting tonight to discuss disbanding the Super League. lol. What are they disbanding? There was nothing in place! Load of fools. It's a bit of a weird couple of days. It didn't ever seem possible it would happen and I'm not sure what made these superpowers believe it would ever be allowed. All in all a truly bizarre 48 hours. It's given some interesting news to follow though.

that's the end of all of that then!

This was my thought at the start, but to be honest when you look at it...all that will do is kill off clubs like us. That's why it can't/won't happen. This will die down eventually, or re-appear as some sort of watered down super league - change is a foot, so it just needs to be worked out. These top 6 clubs have just called everyones bluff by being dicks though.

I do agree, I don't think any of their proposal has legs. It feels posturing and like you say, it's just the start of a long game. None of the 'shutting them out of the league' will happen, this is just the opposition posturing. It's like they're swinging their c**s at each other and waiting to see who blinks first. It won't end up like this, but you can guarantee there will be changes from the back of this - significant ones at that, probably over the next few years. One thing I'm not sure about is the importance of this 'ECA' - loads of directors have stepped down from it, the clubs part of this have cancelled their memberships of it etc. I'm not sure what significance that holds other than a statement?

Rumours going around that the UCL and EL have been cancelled. Lots of random tweets going around though tbf. Can't see how Chelsea, Real Madrid, Man City and Man Utd can still compete in the competitions. So all those ties are null and void.

https://twitter.com/JBurtTelegraph/status/1383917732685516802?s=20 Told all six Premier League clubs have quit the European Club Association along with the six other 'founding fathers' of the Super League.

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The money they are talking about is insane. If that money is out there (and how, by the way, given the current climate?) then just share that equally throughout every league, and let that filter down the levels of football in all countries. It's the only fair way about it. But that won't happen, because this money has been tapped into via the mega Oil wealth of Man City, the Russian money tree of Abromanvich etc. They want their money to benfit them and them alone. Could be a massive PR stunt of course, on the eve of Uefa announcing their new UCL format - but it's still all very dirty and it's not a nice game anymore.

Super League organisers say each club participating in the competition will receive a payment of €3.5bn - that works out at just over £3bn. In a statement, the League said: "The new annual tournament will provide significantly greater economic growth and support for European football via a long-term commitment to uncapped solidarity payments which will grow in line with league revenues. "These solidarity payments will be substantially higher than those generated by the current European competition and are expected to be in excess of €10 billion during the course of the initial commitment period of the Clubs. "In addition, the competition will be built on a sustainable financial foundation with all Founding Clubs signing up to a spending framework. In exchange for their commitment, Founding Clubs will receive an amount of €3.5 billion solely to support their infrastructure investment plans and to offset the impact of the COVID pandemic."

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who have agreed to join a new European Super League (ESL). In a seismic move for European football, the Premier League clubs will join AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Real Madrid. The ESL said the founding clubs had agreed to establish a "new midweek competition" with teams continuing to "compete in their respective national leagues". It says the inaugural season "is intended to commence as soon as practicable" and "anticipated that a further three clubs will join" the breakaway. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Uefa and the Premier League condemned the move when news of it broke on Sunday. In a statement, the ESL said: "Going forward, the founding clubs look forward to holding discussions with Uefa and Fifa to work together in partnership to deliver the best outcomes for the new league and for football as a whole. "The formation of the Super League comes at a time when the global pandemic has accelerated the instability in the existing European football economic model. "In recent months, extensive dialogue has taken place with football stakeholders regarding the future format of European competitions. "The founding clubs believe the solutions proposed following these talks do not solve fundamental issues, including the need to provide higher-quality matches and additional financial resources for the overall football pyramid." Manchester United co-chairman Joel Glazer will be a vice-chairman of the Super League. He said: "By bringing together the world's greatest clubs and players to play each other throughout the season, the Super League will open a new chapter for European football, ensuring world-class competition and facilities, and increased financial support for the wider football pyramid." What is the proposed format? The league will have 20 teams - the 12 founding members plus the three unnamed clubs they expect to join soon and five sides who qualify annually according to their domestic achievements. It will start in August, with midweek fixtures, and the clubs will be split into two groups of 10, who play each other home and away. The top three in each group qualify for the quarter-finals, with the teams in fourth and fifth playing a two-legged play-off for the two remaining spots. From then, on it will have the same two-leg knockout format used in the Champions League before a single-leg final in May at neutral venue.

Basically a champions league that no one else can ever be a part of. 3.5b has been allocated to each founding club to help with infrastructure costs, and to offset against the COVID-19 troubles. Honestly, this is just the pits.

Jesus christ, you're having one here mate.

We'll probably win and look a lot better than we did today, and that would sum it up. Battle for 12th is on.

My point said that form and how you feel about your club should go out of the window in these games. This is Southampton, we play in Semi Finals about a handful of times in our lifetimes. I'm gutted we couldn't go today and I'd have been there through whatever method. Yes, tickets are expensive, but this was still my club in an FA Cup Semi Final and I'd be paying to watch it.

Yep, I do. What's your point?

You watch or go to an FA Cup Semi Final no matter how you feel about your club at this moment in time, form or predictions go out of the window. These are one off games, we don't get many opportunities to play in them. Your attitude isn't great and pretty much sums up the attitude of the players on the pitch today as well. 'It's just another game'. When I look back to last season, what was the point of beating Man City 1-0 at home? Backs to the wall, heroic stuff - but for what? 11th? What's the point. Those sorts of performances need to be in these competitions. Priorities seem a bit skewed all over.

To be fair, defensively and positionally he was alright tonight I thought. He was done for pace a couple of times, but that will always happen if the full backs push up and the midfield don't cover. He's been much worse than that this season.

Yeah, we've just lost an FA Cup Semi Final. Yeah. Never mind. Show some fire boy. He is part of the problem with this squad.