Posted on 02/10/2023 7:02:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
A future European Super League could include as many as 80 teams, Bernd Reichart, the chief executive of A22 Sports Management, a company formed to sponsor and assist in the creation of a breakaway soccer league, said on Thursday (Feb 9).
In a statement outlining the preliminary results of talks that A22 had with what it said was 50 European clubs and stakeholders of football, the company said change was necessary.
"The vast majority of them share the assessment that the very foundation of European football is under threat, and it is time for change," A22 said.
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Terrible idea.
bring back that super-league they were working
on few years ago
Sounds like another scheme to sell more beer
bkmk
So what?
Just more money for the corporations who own the big clubs at the expense of the smaller clubs.
Not happening.
Ugh, soccer, how very euro-weenie.........
Ain’t ‘Football’ and I was thinking it was a .22 club for shooters.
Do members of the European Superleague wear spandex and fight crime?
Unclear to me, would this Super League replace the existing Champions League format, or would the 80 teams basically leave their domestic leagues to participate full time in the super league?
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