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10 years of FIFIf this goes through, that's it for me. As a viewer of football, but worst of all as a fan of this storied and once great club. No two ways about it. A soulless 'closed-shop' tournament which sets aside the very fabric of the sport - results based on merit - for a moneygrab - and we're at the forefront, parading around like pissing on 113 years of tradition and history is something to be proud of.
That hurts to say, but this is just madness.
That hurts to say, but this is just madness.
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Yeah this is not looking good really, just the rich getting richer which is depressing. My passion for football has def decreased recently and this might just be the nail in the coffin.
I don't even want to jump ahead and conclude that it's really bad but I don't see any positives in it, except that the Italian teams probably really need this shit but who's fault is that and why should this ever be the solution?
Oh and fuck the US and their shit models.
I don't even want to jump ahead and conclude that it's really bad but I don't see any positives in it, except that the Italian teams probably really need this shit but who's fault is that and why should this ever be the solution?
Oh and fuck the US and their shit models.
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Fuck this club. Honestly. To be associated with this scheming bullshit driven by Agnelli is the ultimate disgrace. It is anti-football, anti-sport, anti-merit; it is a pure, undiluted form of football neoliberalism. Elite clubs decide they don't like being regulated, so break off to keep all the money for themselves. The whole thing has shades of tricke-down economics: let the rich generate revenue and profit without regulation and their success will slowly filter down to the masses.
Spoiler alert: The rich elites kept all the money for themselves.
Rubentus are trash. Bbilan are trash. And now Inter are joining them in the fucking bin. Absolute trash club. This whole plot is some Zamparini or Ghirardi-tier shit. I hope FIGC demotes all of them to Serie D.
I'm not an idiot. I understand why they want to do it. Every business in the world craves a large, dependable income source, which for any club included in this proposed Euro Super League, this will be. But to accept this league is to accept football is not sport. What happens on the pitch will no longer have any importance. To win trophies is no longer be the objective; to deliver profit to investors is the most important thing.
I am fed up with this shit. No more. The club being owned by a multi-billion dollar Chinese conglomerate – which probably only invested to curry favour with Xi Jinping and his vision for China to become a football powerhouse, to use sport as a cultural bridge to make China as revered in Western culture as the US – already pissed me off. But this is the final straw. Inter is not a football club. It is a soulless, profit-driven enterprise for which football is merely a product it sells.
Vaffanculo Inter.
Spoiler alert: The rich elites kept all the money for themselves.
Rubentus are trash. Bbilan are trash. And now Inter are joining them in the fucking bin. Absolute trash club. This whole plot is some Zamparini or Ghirardi-tier shit. I hope FIGC demotes all of them to Serie D.
I'm not an idiot. I understand why they want to do it. Every business in the world craves a large, dependable income source, which for any club included in this proposed Euro Super League, this will be. But to accept this league is to accept football is not sport. What happens on the pitch will no longer have any importance. To win trophies is no longer be the objective; to deliver profit to investors is the most important thing.
I am fed up with this shit. No more. The club being owned by a multi-billion dollar Chinese conglomerate – which probably only invested to curry favour with Xi Jinping and his vision for China to become a football powerhouse, to use sport as a cultural bridge to make China as revered in Western culture as the US – already pissed me off. But this is the final straw. Inter is not a football club. It is a soulless, profit-driven enterprise for which football is merely a product it sells.
Vaffanculo Inter.
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10 years of FIFThe Super League games will end up having the same buzz and excitement (or better, the lack thereof) as those preseason International Champions Cup games: Big name clubs, exciting fixtures on paper, but boring as fuck because nothing is at stake and you'll get invited next year anyway.
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10 years of FIFINJECT THIS INTO MY VEINS, GUARANTEED REVENUE in the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF EUROS. Plus we become a permanent franchise in this. Absolute goat.
Now it makes sense why Suning was hell bent on not selling.
Now it makes sense why Suning was hell bent on not selling.
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10 years of FIFOnly someone who truly hates football can be behind a European super league
Jonathan Liew
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ootball-can-be-behind-a-european-super-league
The clubs behind the proposed tournament must find competitive sport offensive, all the way from the grassroots game to the World Cup.
Perhaps once all this has shaken out, once the imminent threat of a breakaway European super league has been resolved one way or the other, football will find the time for a little reflection.
How we reached this point. How the game’s elite clubs managed to engineer a scenario in which a hostile takeover came to feel inevitable, even irresistible. How the world’s most popular sport managed to hand over so much of its power and wealth and influence to people who despise it.
Because make no mistake: this is an idea that could only have been devised by someone who truly hates football to its bones. Who hates football so much that they want to prune it, gut it, dismember it, from the grassroots game to the World Cup. Who finds the very idea of competitive sport offensive, an unhealthy distraction from the main objective, which in a way has always been capitalism’s main objective.
Unchecked and unquestioned, capital has never merely contented itself with a seat at the table, but will invariably demand the power to make its own rules. This, in large part, is what appears to have happened here.
On Sunday afternoon it appeared that 12 clubs were amassed behind a breakaway: three from Italy, three from Spain and six from England. There was an acrid sense of timing, too: coming just as Arsenal (European elite) were scraping a 1-1 draw at home to Fulham (non-European elite), just as Juventus were being beaten (and overtaken in the Serie A table) by little Atalanta, just as Lyon’s women were succumbing to Paris Saint-Germain: their first Champions League defeat in four years and the first rumbling portent that their golden era is about to be trampled by the march of the global super-clubs.
At the heart of this move, then, is a distaste for the basic point of sport itself: a battle of nations and cultures, towns and regions, ideas and systems, an ecosystem with a top and a middle and a bottom, something you go out and play as well as sit down and pay for. Perhaps this had long been an unfashionable idea at the sharp end of the game.
But in stating their intention to establish a closed competition – or a largely closed competition, which in effect would be largely the same thing – the biggest clubs have laid out their vision for the future of football: a 12-month reality television show whose sole purpose is to generate a ceaseless stream of content, animus and talking points.
The lack of jeopardy that many critics have identified as one of the major drawbacks of a super league is in fact the entire point: a constantly bubbling steady-state tension in which nothing really matters, and so everything does. Missed Liverpool vs Real Madrid? Never mind, they’re playing again tomorrow night, and then three nights after that: football as on-demand stream, football as non-fungible consumer good, football that fits into your life as smoothly as an Ocado delivery slot.
At which point, it is worth pointing out an uncomfortable truth: this is what a lot of people actually want. Maybe not you or the stalwart season-ticket holders or the ultras in the Curva Sud, but certainly millions around the world with no particular historical attachment to the game, and for whom the idea of keeping the elite teams apart for the sake of tradition seems as perverse as shelving the Godzilla vs Kong movie on the basis that they still need to face all the smaller monsters first.
And yet, even at this dramatic late stage, so little about this appears to have been thought through. Will Fifa hold its line against a breakaway league, even if its cherished World Cup is reduced to a glorified Olympics in the process? Will players consent to having their international careers forcibly ended, and if not can they be contractually coerced to do so anyway? Would a new competition be available to a mass television audience, and if not how will the sponsors react? And why on earth have Tottenham signed up when they must know this is their best chance of actually winning something?
Doubtless the coming days will bring some clarity, as well as plenty more confusion. Resistance will come in many forms: protests, boycotts, strongly-worded radio phone-ins, the inevitable rebuke from a toothless parliamentary subcommittee. In the meantime, it is worth noting why Europe’s biggest clubs have decided to go now. Barcelona are £1bn in debt and facing one of the biggest financial crises in their history. Real Madrid were unable to afford a single big signing last summer. Juventus have to find around £100m by the end of June. Internazionale’s owners sought emergency funding in February.
These are the most lucrative clubs in the most lucrative sport in the world: the sharpest minds, the smartest guys in the room. Are we really to believe that these galaxy brains can work together to organise a breakaway league when they can barely keep a roof over their heads?
Perhaps, for all the heartache and upheaval, this is the logical conclusion: you’ve been threatening to go it alone for years now. Well, guys: best of luck
Jonathan Liew
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ootball-can-be-behind-a-european-super-league
The clubs behind the proposed tournament must find competitive sport offensive, all the way from the grassroots game to the World Cup.
Perhaps once all this has shaken out, once the imminent threat of a breakaway European super league has been resolved one way or the other, football will find the time for a little reflection.
How we reached this point. How the game’s elite clubs managed to engineer a scenario in which a hostile takeover came to feel inevitable, even irresistible. How the world’s most popular sport managed to hand over so much of its power and wealth and influence to people who despise it.
Because make no mistake: this is an idea that could only have been devised by someone who truly hates football to its bones. Who hates football so much that they want to prune it, gut it, dismember it, from the grassroots game to the World Cup. Who finds the very idea of competitive sport offensive, an unhealthy distraction from the main objective, which in a way has always been capitalism’s main objective.
Unchecked and unquestioned, capital has never merely contented itself with a seat at the table, but will invariably demand the power to make its own rules. This, in large part, is what appears to have happened here.
On Sunday afternoon it appeared that 12 clubs were amassed behind a breakaway: three from Italy, three from Spain and six from England. There was an acrid sense of timing, too: coming just as Arsenal (European elite) were scraping a 1-1 draw at home to Fulham (non-European elite), just as Juventus were being beaten (and overtaken in the Serie A table) by little Atalanta, just as Lyon’s women were succumbing to Paris Saint-Germain: their first Champions League defeat in four years and the first rumbling portent that their golden era is about to be trampled by the march of the global super-clubs.
At the heart of this move, then, is a distaste for the basic point of sport itself: a battle of nations and cultures, towns and regions, ideas and systems, an ecosystem with a top and a middle and a bottom, something you go out and play as well as sit down and pay for. Perhaps this had long been an unfashionable idea at the sharp end of the game.
But in stating their intention to establish a closed competition – or a largely closed competition, which in effect would be largely the same thing – the biggest clubs have laid out their vision for the future of football: a 12-month reality television show whose sole purpose is to generate a ceaseless stream of content, animus and talking points.
The lack of jeopardy that many critics have identified as one of the major drawbacks of a super league is in fact the entire point: a constantly bubbling steady-state tension in which nothing really matters, and so everything does. Missed Liverpool vs Real Madrid? Never mind, they’re playing again tomorrow night, and then three nights after that: football as on-demand stream, football as non-fungible consumer good, football that fits into your life as smoothly as an Ocado delivery slot.
At which point, it is worth pointing out an uncomfortable truth: this is what a lot of people actually want. Maybe not you or the stalwart season-ticket holders or the ultras in the Curva Sud, but certainly millions around the world with no particular historical attachment to the game, and for whom the idea of keeping the elite teams apart for the sake of tradition seems as perverse as shelving the Godzilla vs Kong movie on the basis that they still need to face all the smaller monsters first.
And yet, even at this dramatic late stage, so little about this appears to have been thought through. Will Fifa hold its line against a breakaway league, even if its cherished World Cup is reduced to a glorified Olympics in the process? Will players consent to having their international careers forcibly ended, and if not can they be contractually coerced to do so anyway? Would a new competition be available to a mass television audience, and if not how will the sponsors react? And why on earth have Tottenham signed up when they must know this is their best chance of actually winning something?
Doubtless the coming days will bring some clarity, as well as plenty more confusion. Resistance will come in many forms: protests, boycotts, strongly-worded radio phone-ins, the inevitable rebuke from a toothless parliamentary subcommittee. In the meantime, it is worth noting why Europe’s biggest clubs have decided to go now. Barcelona are £1bn in debt and facing one of the biggest financial crises in their history. Real Madrid were unable to afford a single big signing last summer. Juventus have to find around £100m by the end of June. Internazionale’s owners sought emergency funding in February.
These are the most lucrative clubs in the most lucrative sport in the world: the sharpest minds, the smartest guys in the room. Are we really to believe that these galaxy brains can work together to organise a breakaway league when they can barely keep a roof over their heads?
Perhaps, for all the heartache and upheaval, this is the logical conclusion: you’ve been threatening to go it alone for years now. Well, guys: best of luck
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10 years of FIFI can't fucking wait to see what the FIGC's punishment for the club is 
I'm expecting the scudetto to be taken away, or at least enough points taken away from Inter, Milan, and Juventus to put us out of the CL spots
I'm expecting the scudetto to be taken away, or at least enough points taken away from Inter, Milan, and Juventus to put us out of the CL spots 
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FUCK THIS!!!! ARE WE REALLY GONNA THROW AWAY ALL THE HARD WORK THE MANAGER AND PLAYERS PUT IN THIS SEASON WAITING TEN YEARS OF FINALLY WINNING THE SCUDETTO FOR FOR LOOSE CHANGE????!!! FUCK YOU ZHANG!!!
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I can't fucking wait to see what the FIGC's punishment for the club is
these clubs dont need cl spots anyway. Our new goal is to fight for 17th position in Super League.
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10 years of FIFThe fact that an idea of a super league has always been hated by fans and UEFA, and they still went and did this, shows that it doesn't matter. The fact that the whole tone today was the football world appalling this and not paying attention to actual fixtures, and they went along with the announcement despite this, shows that none of this matters. The clubs are in it for themselves, the damage is done.
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Dude they already have a website going, its all over for uefa
https://thesuperleague.com/
Best case scenario for them is they become competition for teams like lazio or everton.
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10 years of FIFYeah, it's the figures that get my blood rushing about football. How can I contain my excitement.
