18 April 2021: The black day in the history of football when there is an official announcement of the European Super League, fans have protested by pulling banner in the stadium by saying “created by the poor stolen by the rich”.
What does it mean? what is the European super league?
let’s understand this.
Well, it is reported that this concept of launching a new league comes from the Real Madrid president Florentino Perez who has been the main protagonist of this league and 12 elite football clubs have joined there hands and decided to form a new league which will replace the champions league and will forever change the history of football. Those 12 clubs are Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea these are the European giants who have agreed to join this league where three European giants FC Bayern Munich, Dortmund, and Paris-Saint German have denied to be a part of this league but I feel it is a matter of time when they join their hands with these clubs too. It is said that it will be a 20 team format and 15 top clubs will remain constant and other 5 will fight for the relegation spot so for top clubs there will be no relegations which are bit strange for me and the format of this league could be Round-Robin format where 20 teams will be divided into a group of 10 and from every group, 3 teams will advance and play-offs format could mirror the NBA Playoffs-style which in football could be quite strange.
The main reason given behind the starting of this league is to improve financial support and football quality. But in my opinion, it’s just a game of money driven by greed where all big clubs in Europe want a big piece of cake and want to back themselves with more governance and more money. It has been reported that J.P Morgan (America-based bank) have committed $5 Billion to the super league and simply by accepting an offer of invitation a club will receive $450 million. This process is fast-forwarded because of this pandemic situation where most clubs depend on Tickets-Sponsorships which have been heavily disrupted because of COVID-19 and now every club needs financial stability which is certainly not given by UEFA and FIFA so big clubs have taken this step.
But FIFA has taken a firm stand and publicly opposed this idea and said the clubs who will play in this league will be banned from playing in any other competition at domestic, European, or World level, and their players could be denied the opportunity to represent their country. And even with immediate effect the domestic league of this year and champions league this year could be suspended.
This league is a disgrace and embarrassing for me which only runs the motto of greed and power, where all small clubs will suffer, there will be no big opportunities, the excitement in the football will vanish, there will be no champions league nights, without the best teams in their respective domestic leagues it will make domestic leagues boring and it could hamper the growth of young footballers also as they may not face the toughest competition in domestic leagues. And only all the time watching big European teams will become boring and not so exciting after a certain period as in Champions league you don’t get to watch every weekend we have to wait which maintains our excitement for the tournament. And big players will no longer be a part of International Tournaments, World-cup without the best talents of football I Just can’t imagine that.
By this tournament richer gets richer and poorer gets poorer. But the main concern is how it helps to evolve football, how it will last long and how will you keep this league exciting? And how it will not damage football?
Sportsoff 