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 ...
