Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

Being told majority of clubs now pulling out. Atlético and Barca also backing out. City, as reported. Americans clinging on according to one source but for how long?

— Matt Lawton (@Lawton_Times) April 20, 2021

It's this year's Change UK.

Gunners out too

What an absolute shitshow

So Real Madrid playing Spurs 18 times next season?

Great

Spurs will drop out within the hour, i guess. It’s dead in the water and I can’t imagine any of the remaining clubs don’t know it.

JPMorgan’s involvement was vetted by its internal reputation committee, which assesses high-profile and potentially controversial assignments, according to people briefed on the decision. But that committee didn’t fully expect the emotional reaction from sports fans that has flooded the airwaves around the world, these people added.

lol https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/business/dealbook/dimon-lebron-super-league.html

Ed Woodward resigns from Man Utd.

loving this

Haha, fuck off ed

There hasn't been a rolling news story this fast moving since that failed coup in Turkey a few years back.

genuinely surprised by how fast this happened. guess i overestimated the competency of the 12 owners, and assumed they knew something we didn't.

Hilarious. And after they’d put that “legacy fans” bit out there too.

Can't say I'm displeased at Ed falling on his sword but it essentially means nothing while the Glazers remain

City were apparently the last to join and were not properly on board until Sunday, if the initial reports were right. It might not be a huge surprise that they found it easy to back out.

Fundamentally they, and Chelsea, don’t particularly need the ability to elevate / secure revenue to compete with PSG. The other ten, arguably, do. Perez’ mistake might have been inviting them to join.

How did they not see this backlash coming?!

Agnelli gone now too

genius from city. torpedoing a new superleague for the next 10 yrs, weakening rivals leverage in uefa, ensuring madrid/barca remain a financial wreck thereby being in poll position for superstar players.

agnellij out

lol, otm

lets row back on the champs lge expansion while we're at it

Looks like Perez will be next

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lol this all feels very Fyre Festival "let's just do it and be legends"
looking forward to the Athletic behind the scenes deep dive into how this all happened

All 12 founding clubs of the Super League are in a Zoom meeting at the moment. [@partidazocope] #afc

— afcstuff (@afcstuff) April 20, 2021

FSG project at Liverpool now fucked surely? All the bullshit leaning into the mythology since they took over is all up in flames now, plus I’d imagine Lebron etc. pumped all that extra money in the other week because they thought this was a done deal.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzcIxOPXsAIZavO?format=jpg&name=medium

Agnelli may not have gone

Jose must be loving this surely?

god perez agnelli gone in the same night would be delicious. fsg can get to fuck as well not that anyone else who buys lfc would be any more palatable.

this is the most excitement this season has managed

The myth of levy as having a brain at all was exploded by seeing him wagging his tail around the canteen in the prime doc

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— Jordan Henderson (@JHenderson) April 20, 2021

i'd like to think all those players tweeting their opposition yesterday is what's led to this break-up

Pro evolution names til the end of the season for them.
Man Blue v Merseyside Red

— John McGinn (@jmcginn7) April 18, 2021

There was no coming back from this

Joel Glazer: “Ed Woodward has served the club with great distinction ... His contribution to the club has been massive, and he will always be welcome at Old Trafford as a part of the Manchester United family.”

— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) April 20, 2021

The cunts have also torched any influence they had over their domestic leagues, UEFA etc. What the fuck are they going to do now if they want more preferential treatment? Threaten to form a breakaway league? Actually quite amazingly incompetent.

Meanwhile first off the sinking ship Chelsea leap into the CL places by grinding out a 0-0 draw at home to Brighton, the footie lads in SE Asia don't know what they'll be missing

Just listening to TalkSport for a bit there, where this is being presented as English football fans saving football, not quite for the world but not far off it. What a joke.

How come Agnelli be out when his family owns the club?

Or rather, if he is out, does it matter?

The other four English clubs are out now

Not the only 6-0 victory of the evening

"I once launched a multi-billion dollar plan to break away from the Premier League and launch a European Super League that would irreversibly restructure the finances and competitive nature of club football forever that lasted two days..." pic.twitter.com/kIIhcdzrg1

— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) April 20, 2021

I think everyone is out but Liverpool.

... oh hold on, Liverpool are out.

Liverpool Football Club can confirm that our involvement in proposed plans to form a European Super League has been discontinued. In recent days, the club has received representations from various key stakeholders, both internally and externally, and we would like to thank them for their valuable contributions.

so who won it in the end?

liverpool

As a result of listening to you and the wider football community over recent days we are withdrawing from the proposed Super League.

We made a mistake, and we apologise for it.

— Arsenal (@Arsenal) April 20, 2021

at least you got an apology! this was man u:

We will not be participating in the European Super League.#MUFC

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) April 20, 2021

Arsenal are the only ones who've apologized, meanhwhile I think Levy was still trying to pass it off as a good idea at the wrong time.