The European Super League (ESL) project was announced in April 2021 and was initially designed to rival UEFA’s Champions League. However, the initiative took a nosedive as it swiftly crumbled under the weight of disapproval from fans, national governments, and domestic leagues. The original 2021 Super League concept faced backlash for its ‘closed’ design, where …
The currently suspended plans of the European Super League caught the football world in a trance, focusing on the financially driven aspects of the sport which planned to eradicate the ideals behind it. Florentino Perez planned on transforming the sport from a financial point of view, promising revenues generated to be twice as much as …
The last couple of days have been quite a tumultuous time to be a football fan. After Real Madrid president Florentino Perez announced the idea of the European Super League – a cash-rich revamp of the Champions League which would feature only the top European clubs, the footballing world went into a meltdown pondering the …
Football might not be quite the same anymore. Twelve of the richest and most storied football clubs in Europe announced that they had formed a breakaway European club competition that would change everything that we have known about the beautiful game for nearly a century. The breakaway clubs which include Real Madrid and Barcelona in …