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evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8939 Posts
April 20 2021 19:02 GMT
#2181
lets goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

i think they expected backlash for sure but they didnt realise they were literally taking on the entire world. like literally.
sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8218 Posts
April 20 2021 19:02 GMT
#2182
Woodward is in a way just the fall guy here. I mean he deserves to fall as hard as he can but the real problem is the ownership structure. The Glazers aren't going anywhere, and even if they were there would just be another group of billionaires/oligarks/whatever taking over.
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28916 Posts
April 20 2021 19:03 GMT
#2183
On April 21 2021 04:00 Bacillus wrote:
I'm a bit puzzled why they abandoned it so quickly. They must have expected a heavy backlash, nothing so far is particularly unexpected.

I thought disband could easily happen in a few weeks as the resistance starts forming something more concrete and substantial, but that was never going to happen in a handful of days.


I think the backlash was a lot harsher than expected for some of them tbh, particularly for the reluctant joiners, and this required every team to join in to succeed.
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Profile Blog Joined April 2011
16169 Posts
April 20 2021 19:03 GMT
#2184
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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8218 Posts
April 20 2021 19:04 GMT
#2185
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
April 20 2021 19:04 GMT
#2186
If the Super League dissolves in less than 48hrs the three future Clubs, that haven't been announced yet, will be thanking the sports gods for not being part of the PR shit storm.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8939 Posts
April 20 2021 19:05 GMT
#2187
never gonna talk shit about slabhead again. he can be as slow as he wants on the pitch for me now
sneirac
Profile Joined July 2012
Germany3464 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-20 19:07:02
April 20 2021 19:06 GMT
#2188
possession wins games, kante is washed up and shit - pande
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
April 20 2021 19:06 GMT
#2189
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34173 Posts
April 20 2021 19:07 GMT
#2190
Supposedly Chelsea withdraw because most players said they would leave the team if they dont let them play for their national team
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6324 Posts
April 20 2021 19:07 GMT
#2191
On April 21 2021 03:58 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I mean, it's crisis averted for now, but I don't imagine it's an end of the saga. Berlusconi wanted this 25 years ago, and Wenger predicted it happening more than a decade ago - without supporting it. Pushing for and implementing a 50+1 model is prolly the only way to sorta-permanently stop the plans.

I don't see how a 50+1 model would solve this. Barca and Real Madrid are fan owned and they would've joined if it weren't for the backlash. I'm pretty sure if it was a success a club like Bayern would've joined in one or two years when it would've been properly established.
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
April 20 2021 19:08 GMT
#2192
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8939 Posts
April 20 2021 19:09 GMT
#2193
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
its the fking purge

and i just hope woodwards replacement isnt an even worse glazers puppet.
zeo
Profile Joined October 2009
Serbia6343 Posts
April 20 2021 19:10 GMT
#2194
On April 21 2021 03:56 Jockmcplop wrote:
This is more exciting than most of the football this year tbh.

Imagine being a German football fan. Bayern wins lol and no part in the biggest existential crisis in World football of the last few decades. Thats no fun
“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.” - Jean Cocteau
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
April 20 2021 19:11 GMT
#2195
Yeh in fairness this Agnelli guy (i dont know much about him at all just what i read last few days) is a fucking awful man lol. He supposedly said in the Serie A meeting that none of the other team matters outside of Milan, Juve and Inter because for the last 80 years it has only been us.....then he was the CHIEF at UEFA while making the ESL and told them literally days before it wasn't happening and then did that to them lol nuts.

So him being out of football is good.
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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8218 Posts
April 20 2021 19:12 GMT
#2196
Agnelli out is crazy. Never would haze expected him and Perez to go. This probably means the 12 are truly afraid of what else might happen. Talk of 50+1, fundamental economical changes, etc.

They're trying to prevent the coming changes from being substantial by appearing to already handle the situation themselves.
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Oukka
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Finland1683 Posts
April 20 2021 19:14 GMT
#2197
Woodward is just a fall guy. Whatever happens this doesn't change the fact that Glazers still treat the club as a revenue extraction machine. They'll get a new guy in with the same brief as Woodward had.

Same thing with the whole wider ESL, next time this surfaces the big clubs will be ready to drop out of everything else. As long as football clubs are global entertainment businesses this concept isn't going away.
I play children's card games and watch a lot of dota, CS and HS
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-20 19:18:44
April 20 2021 19:18 GMT
#2198
So Barca, Chelsea, Man Utd, Man City, Atletico Madrid are all out.

The book and documentary on these 48hrs are going to be amazing.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22675 Posts
April 20 2021 19:21 GMT
#2199
On April 21 2021 04:14 Oukka wrote:
Woodward is just a fall guy. Whatever happens this doesn't change the fact that Glazers still treat the club as a revenue extraction machine. They'll get a new guy in with the same brief as Woodward had.

Same thing with the whole wider ESL, next time this surfaces the big clubs will be ready to drop out of everything else. As long as football clubs are global entertainment businesses this concept isn't going away.
Its all about debt.
Its not for nothing that most of the founding members of the SL are also some of the biggest indebted clubs in the world.
This gamble was entirely about securing guaranteed income, that is why they couldn't be relegated and why the money was mostly fixed and not weighted towards winning.
Missing out on the Champion's league because of a bad season is a massive financial disaster. But instead of pushing for financial reforms that curb the excessive money spend on players they tried to secure themselves more guaranteed money.

And they clearly underestimated how massive and most of all united the resistance against this SL was.

It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Bacillus
Profile Joined August 2010
Finland2122 Posts
April 20 2021 19:24 GMT
#2200
On April 21 2021 04:03 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2021 04:00 Bacillus wrote:
I'm a bit puzzled why they abandoned it so quickly. They must have expected a heavy backlash, nothing so far is particularly unexpected.

I thought disband could easily happen in a few weeks as the resistance starts forming something more concrete and substantial, but that was never going to happen in a handful of days.


I think the backlash was a lot harsher than expected for some of them tbh, particularly for the reluctant joiners, and this required every team to join in to succeed.

Hmm, possibly. I have to say, if I ever went against multiple rich & powerful organizations and vast majority of biggest football fanbases in Europe simultaneously, I'd be prepared for a war.

Maybe the players' reaction surprised them or something.
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