European Super League

[Sniper Mik]

Feels really funny that we are a founder. As if its a nobility badge.

So basically now when we banter clubs we can flaunt our founder status against them lmao

We're the 3rd most successful club in England. We deserve to be among the founders from our respective leagues. City are the real posers

 

[dashsnow17]

So i've woken up and, without hyperbole, football is broken?

Jesus i mean i've disliked Arsenal for a long time obviously, who hasn't, but to actually hate the club you support is a very weird feeling.

 

[mirrorstare]

Feel bad for albakos who has to rebrand the whole forum again to football mania or something

 

[Vicki]

This idea is disgraceful & something has to happen. It makes us look worse considering we can't even beat Fulham anymore. What, are our board against us & want to see us getting done 4/5-0 week by week now?

In one way it makes Liverpool look stupid aswell tbf, they've got that theme going "You'll never walk alone" they might lose 75% of their fans now & they'll be alone with only a few other clubs then.

Are our Board against us? Hmmm, interesting question.
I don't quite understand the 'our' and the 'us', but hey ho.


Also, why would Liverpool 'lose' 75% of their fans?

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the 92.7 million 'followers' that Liverpool have on their official facebook/twitter/instagram accounts are NOT going to be jumping off the cliffs like lemmings any time soon.

In fact they're probably thrilled with the prospect of having regular top-level Liverpool games against the best of the best, rather than Southampton, West Brom, Burnley and Crystal Palace, Liverpool's last 4 fixtures this season in the 'premier' League.

They might also be able to see their 'heroes' in the flesh when they play the games in Asia and the Middle East

 

[Jack badmon]

No one wants this, no one has asked for this, no one needs this except greedy small **** psychopathic rich men. I will no longer consider this my club.

 

[<<reed>>]

greedy small **** psychopathic rich men

@rich 1990

 

[<<reed>>]

**** this ****.

I'm now a fully committed Freiburg supporter. I plan to learn German and join Freiburg-Mania.

Why Freiburg?

 

[Highbury_2006]

 

[Vicki]

So i've woken up and, without hyperbole, football is broken?

Jesus i mean i've disliked Arsenal for a long time obviously, who hasn't, but to actually hate the club you support is a very weird feeling.

This is what we signed up for when we left Highbury

We left to compete with the Elite

That is what we will be doing

 

[dashsnow17]

It's genuinely hilarious, Arsenal aren't a CL level team right now, we're not even an EL-level team, our league form doesn't even qualify us to play in Europe next season, and we're walking into a weekly competition to play Barca, Juve and Madrid? F*cking unbelievable.

 

[Highbury_2006]

This is what we signed up for when we left Highbury

We left to compete with the Elite

That is what we will be doing

This was not what we had in mind.

 

[albakos]

Feel bad for albakos who has to rebrand the whole forum again to football mania or something

The sidebar widget of the Super League table's gonna be lit when we climb from 12-th to 11th after beating Sp*rs.

If I was Arsenal or Sp**s (maybe even Liverpool) I'd be wary of this. If any club in the ESL was uncompetitive long term then it would hurt the "product" - no-one wants to see **** teams getting beaten 8-0 all the time.

Guaranteed down the track the biggest clubs will get together and put us up for relegation back to the EPL or whatever, we'll get replaced with Everton or someone in a heartbeat.

You think EPL will accept us back just like that !!?

I bet the FA will throw us down to League 2 or even further down, so we have to climb back in a Rangers fashion.

But hey, I am sure the Tricky Micky Globetrotters will rock it against Grimsby Town, Crawley Town, Stevenage and Harrogate Town.

 

[field442]

No one wants this, no one has asked for this, no one needs this except greedy small **** psychopathic rich men. I will no longer consider this my club.

People have been saying the Champions League format is **** for years. Granted this isn’t the main reason for the breakaway, but to see fans now care about what happens to Red Star Belgrade etc after regularly moaning about having to play dead rubber fixtures in Europe is a bit perplexing.

 

[dashsnow17]

And the cowardice of it all. The rumour breaks yesterday and not a single representative of this thing has said a word, they all just release a collective statement. It's cowardly. Come out and explain yourselves.

 

[Rimaal]

32m ago06:46

The Guardian’s own Jonathan Liew has written that the idea of a European Super League is one 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.

 

[BobP]

Joining GDeepreich and Austrian Gooner.

You forgot Rex Gunther

 

[albakos]

You forgot Rex Gunther

@OnlyEin as well

 

[Big Poppa]

Clearly this cartel has been running for a while. Remember this?
Project Big Picture

 

[<<reed>>]

It's genuinely hilarious, Arsenal aren't a CL level team right now, we're not even an EL-level team, our league form doesn't even qualify us to play in Europe next season, and we're walking into a weekly competition to play Barca, Juve and Madrid? F*cking unbelievable.

Merci Arsène I guess?

 

[Vicki]

This was not what we had in mind.

who is 'we'?

I have a bit of grass from the pitch at Highbury in my wallet.
Picked from the spot where TH14 kissed the turf on that final day.
Laminated and preserved for ever by an old friend of this forum, and gifted to me.
R.I.P The Arsenal FC, 6 September, 1913 to 7 May, 2006

Kroenke, the 'Emirates', a cartoon badge?
Who are 'we'?