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"Everton is saddened and disappointed to see proposals of a breakaway league pushed forward by six clubs.
Six clubs acting entirely in their own interests.
Six clubs tarnishing the reputation of our league and the game.
Six clubs choosing to disrespect every other club with whom they sit around the Premier League table.
Six clubs taking for granted and even betraying the majority of football supporters across our country and beyond.
At this time of national and international crisis - and a defining period for our game - clubs should be working together collaboratively with the ideals of our game and its supporters uppermost.
Instead, these clubs have been secretly conspiring to break away from a football pyramid that has served them so well.
And in that Pyramid Everton salutes EVERY club, be it Leicester City, Accrington Stanley, Gillingham, Lincoln City, Morecambe, Southend United, Notts County and the rest who have, with their very being, enriched the lives of their supporters throughout the game's history. And vice versa.
The self-proclaimed Super Six appear intent on disenfranchising supporters across the game - including their own - by putting the very structure that underpins the game we love under threat.
The backlash is understandable and deserved – and has to be listened to.
This preposterous arrogance is not wanted anywhere in football outside of the clubs that have drafted this plan.
On behalf of everyone associated with Everton, we respectfully ask that the proposals are immediately withdrawn and that the private meetings and subversive practises that have brought our beautiful game to possibly its lowest ever position in terms of trust end now.
Finally we would ask the owners, chairmen, and Board members of the six clubs to remember the privileged position they hold – not only as custodians of their clubs but also custodians of the game. The responsibility they carry should be taken seriously.
We urge them all to consider what they wish their legacy to be."
If it were based on UEFA coefficients then it would include teams like Schachtar Donezk or Ajax.
I'm not sure I like the idea of our club being used in the context of the ESL.
"The present Champions League season begins with participants divided into eight groups of four. From the 2024/25 season, there will be a single league made up of all 36 competing clubs. This will give four more sides the opportunity to compete against the best clubs in Europe.
Under the new format, teams will play four matches more than is currently the case. They will no longer play three opponents twice – home and away – but will instead face fixtures against 10 different teams, half of them at home and half of them away".
A league of 36 teams but they only play 5 home and 5 away fixtures.
Sounds just as barmy as the ESL. Could this be why they made their announcement Sunday night?
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0268-12157d69ce2d-9f011c70f6fa-1000--new-champions-league-format-explained/
But the don't, they have 12 clubs with everyone else against the idea and unless that changes then it isn't going to happen
IF this does happen I can see the fans of Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea & Manchester City starting up their own teams like AFC Liverpool & United of Manchester.
"One issue I’m very uncomfortable with is the threats towards players not being allowed to play for their national team. The players have nothing to do with this and should not be punished in this way. These owners don’t care about international football anyway."
It makes perfect sense, if the players want to play for their national team they have to play for teams that compete in UEFA/FIFA sanctioned competitions and the ESL is not one of those.
Its a lever to get top players to quit the Terrible Twelve
You only had to look at the faces of the Blades players at the weekend to realise what relegation meant to them. I doubt they’d have reacted like that if it had been a case of “oh well let’s do better next year”
Proof that the ESL is good for football?
The Sheffield players did look disappointed, and rightly so, but they may have also been thinking of the big reduction in their salaries for next year.
I would say you are naive to believe that if Man United came along to McGoldrick at Sheffield United and said pal here is 120k to play for us, you think he gives a damn that Sheffield United got relegated beyond the initial shock. His sympathy would stretch as far as the dollar signs entering his bank account.