It certainly looks like it's Bayern, probably acting on behalf of their pals in Merseyside, Trafford, Islington, Madrid and Turin as well.
I actually feel a bit sorry for UEFA here. They're in a situation they maybe can't win, it seems. On the one hand they've got the powerful clubs agitating for a European Super League. That's nothing new incidentally, it's the threat that's been dragged up every time that greedy ex-G14 group want a bigger share of the pie. Expansion of the CL, introdcution of the group stages, seedings and the latest concessions of having 16 guaranteed slots in the group stages for the 4 big leagues. On the other they've got FIFA and its Club World Cup, which is seemingly designed to be the antithesis to the European Super League. And now they've potentially got us to worry about, who can take them down.
You don't know that. Der SPiegel could have got their information elsewhere. That it suits Bayern etc is obvious, but coincidence does not equal cause. People always make this mistake.
Maybe but I'd expect a German angle when it's penned by journalists from Der Spiegel. They will look at it from the perspective they are used to.I’m not sure if you’ve read the original articles, but if they weren’t written by someone associated with Bayern, or a mad Bayern fan, I’ll eat everyone’s hat.
Just the tone of it, it reads more like a blog than serious journalism. Digging our fans out for not being loud, digging Pep out for smiling when he met Sheikh Mansour, saying Bayern can’t compete for players like DeBruyne and Sané.
Saying it’s unfair that “tradition-rich” clubs that they can’t compete with the “neuvoriche”. Even calling 1860 “Munich’s second club”.
It’s got Bayern’s hands all over it.
The old saying that money makes the world go round. This super league is the promise to the big clubs of riches beyond their wildest dreams playing in the only league that really matters. Just reading this forum and even straying onto rag caf it seems most fans are against it. So if the tv audiences who are supposed to fund this untold wealth via advertisements dont support it it will be dead in the water. In other words it is the armchair fans especially, and the match going fans who create the atmosphere and excitement, that is the product take away those audiences and the super league has nothing to promote. If they have formed a breakaway from UEFA the then CL and Europa league could contnue maybe not as lucrative but could survive. Leagues throughout Europe without these so called giants would survive. Baring the giants from domestic competition and maybe preventing their players from international football may be the incentive for them to think again.
Bit tacky. Having almost scaled the summit I think City will be determined to stay where we areConsidering our owner has Florentino Perez on speed dial and has business dealings with him, I highly doubt Madrid are behind trying to leg us over.
Barca and Bayern, hardly a stretch, is it?
Anyhow, consider any fall out, Abu Dhabi and Qatar would simply finance their own version of an elite comp, with money far beyond the realms of others.