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Barely 48 hours after it was announced, the European Super League is already in the midst of an epic collapse. Following protests and actions by fans, players, sponsors and governments around the world, clubs have already started to back out of the big-money competition. All six Premier League clubs — Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City and Chelsea — have signalled their withdrawals, while Atletico Madrid and Barcelona are expected to follow suit. Near the end of a historic day in the football world, ESPN FC’s Craig Burley and Jan Aage Fjortoft react to the developing news.
0:00 Burley says the supporters are the big reason the Super League collapsed so quickly.
1:56 Looking back to Sunday, Burley laughs about how Arsenal were in the process of “clawing back” against Fulham as the news began to leak out.
2:19 Fjortoft delights in the destruction of the competition and discusses the role of ownership across leagues like the EPL, La Liga and the Bundesliga.
4:00 Burley has a laugh about Real Madrid president Florentino Perez being the only executive to go in front of cameras to discuss the competition.
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As a city fan I am proud of my team and my fans, but also to everyone who fought irrespective of the club you support 💙✊🇧🇼
CITEH DID IT FIRST 💙✊🇧🇼
Brits and a Viking looking after the pockets of Swiss, Germans and Super elites of Europe.
Gute kleine Hunde!
ESL : jeene ke hai 4 din ooooooo… 😂😂
Never underestimate the power of common people….
None says anything about the UEFA getting its funding from gulf states to support the new ucl.it's only a big scandal when it's US money involved eh?
So who’s still in this ‘super’ league?
Unreal Madrid.
Inter, Juvenile and AC.
No thanks. I’ll stick to the Champions League. 5 spots just opened up for CSKA Moscow, Galatasaray, Celtic, Feynoord and Red Star.
i think florentino perez panicked brcause he saw he didn't gave the cash to buy mbappe and the king is not saving gis finance anymore so he had a genius idea…….
Not a win for fans, just more money offered by UEFA.
Are the fans of the six premier league teams that originally signed up but pulled out gonna hold a grudge about them wanting to leave in the first place?
You are the clown here . Fifa is one of the most corrupt organisation. They don't care about football but the fact that money would go to big ESL. You are afraid of not being able to get your salary if you object.Nobody is going to watch a UCL match between Eiber and Burnley ofc.
The owners had better start grovelling and sell up, they are a disgrace to Football. The Glazers were behind the UK rebels…..out
UTV
It was a comic effort to execute The Shock Doctrine. Plutocrats gonna plute……
Arsenal can have a sigh of relief…..Bcoz they can stay as arsenal instead of being Fulham of esl😁
Fans 6 – 0 Owners (own goal)
🐐 GOAT or 🐑 SHNP (should have never played?
Lol where are these super League fans now🤣🤣🤣
If only this energy was exerted when it comes to racism
It’s only the beginning lads…
The amount of hypocrisy is beyond me, the super league might have been presented horribly and might not be the answer, and all this pundits and ex players talking about the tradition and doing for the fans can go suck a d*ck, no one and I mean no one that's involved in professional football give two shits about the fans but the money they can get from them.
so sick of hearing about this 50+1. its a joke, the german league is the most uncompetitive league in the world, be careful what you wish for
Lol 🤣🤣🤣 he is saying florentino Perez a clown 😄😂😂
Perez is a joke😂
V.A.R…out next!
What is the problem with usl?
ami i the only one who wants the superleague ?
That clown in Madrid 😂😂😂
Mark Ogden puts me to sleep.
Love Don Hutchinson!
I say now seat at the ECA for the next 23 years for the Founders of back stabbing .
Lets do the same to UEFA they want to reward MADRID money and a special position on the champions!!!!
I hate burley with passion
When you want to use your success in UEFA competitions, to justify walking all over UEFA competitions.
INSANITY
When the rest of the teams start the Superlige I’m going to watch it and stop watching the Premier league because they were to scared to join a real competitive league!!!
Now the UEFA will let country financed clubs to spend spend more petrodollars……
Some fans really don't understand it well. They just pumped what UEFA is trying to fool. UEFA doesn't care about fans or football. They only care about how much money they can make. It's playing monopoly for the last 6 decades.
Yet no scrutiny whatsoever for the new champions league format which is not so different from ESL, I wonder why…
ESPN – European Super League is 'the worst own goal in the history of football'
Phil Jones – Are you challenging me
Well said. Shame on u perez. Shame on u agnelli.
"Football belongs us to us and not you"…is about as stupidest a statement as "its coming home"
Once again uk 🇬🇧 first to exit Europe 😂😂😂
Just HAD to be the Real Madrid man 🤣🤣 he’s a perfect rep for the fan base over there as well… full of themselves and just straight up clowns sometimes 🤣🤌🏽
Don't laugh on the collapse … apparently clowns … they say … for all you know they're just testing the water … 🤷🏽♂️
footballs not dead, but its been in a coma for years