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Unconfirmed reports that Chelsea have pulled out of the ESL.

Strong and excellent words from Everton fc. I wish we had owners capable of there sentiments towards the history of football in this country. https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2111866 I know this is a full cut and paste, but hopefully the mods will leave it untouched, but if not, that’s okay. I understand the rules. 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 On behalf of everyone associated with Everton, we respectfully ask that the proposals are immediately withdrawn and that the private meetings and subversive practises that have brought our beautiful game to possibly its lowest ever position in terms of trust end now.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. Everton FC Board of Directors

Neville about the Leeds-Liverpool game. Next season this game won’t matter to Liverpool. They will automatically play in the super league. They might as well play the kids.

They also want their cake and eat it. They want to continue in the PL, where they are currently way ahead financially of the rest - while at the same time, alongside that, earn billions from the ESL. Greed on a massive scale with no thoughts for any other clubs or the structure of domestic football.

Not Venkys, but Tony has spoken.

PNE statement. https://www.pnefc.net/news/2021/april/european-super-league-proposals/ Venky’s said anything yet?

Mourinho sacked.

What this is about, is the big clubs taking total control of European football. They are taking the power from the bodies such as UEFA, the PL. Between them they are cementing their position of running the whole game. No one will be able to move them out. There’s nothing democratic about this. Those clubs will dictate everything and they will be unmoveable. In order to put themselves in that position, they are prepared to destroy the foundation that football has been based on for 150 years. They are prepared to destroy the fundamental rule that if you win games, there is no limit to what you can achieve. That fundamental rule will only apply to those clubs who own and run the ESL. It’s disgusting and only further confirms how far the game has moved from the fans to the billionaires.

It could well mean good riddance to many an English club as well - including rovers. Sky money would virtually disappear for a lot of clubs. Income would be close to zero. we would have to pray that Venkys stayed and propped us up.

I met @bob fleming once. He ignored me when I spoke to him. I thought that was his real name🙂

Who cares? Winning, losing is all the same.

Did you have to oldjamfan?

Just a reminder that it’s live on YouTube.

How do Man City manage to improve their youngsters while winning all those games? Maybe it helps the likes of Foden playing in an ambitious, successful, winning team and club.

If Mowbray truly want to develop players - and I’ve no doubt he does - then the best way to do that is by playing them in a winning team isn’t it? It’s not easy to develop anyone when they’re on the losing side week in, week out. Sorry Tony, but using the idea of developing players ahead of winning games is ridiculous. You do both, don’t you? You seem to be using player development as an ax use for poor results. As for the total dumbing down of supporters expectations from both Waggott and Mowbray, well it’s obvious that they don’t want to be judged against anyone or anything successful. Especially in the eyes of the owners.

What a different club we’d have been if they’d tapped into Williams and Finns experience and knowledge of the club. It’s the biggest mistake they made - after the decision to listen to Anderson.

Hmmm, yeah Arbitro. I much preferred the days when all the talk was about the players - how brilliant they were, how poor they’d been. Nowadays, with Rovers, it’s anything but. It’s about the owners, the manager. They dominate discussion and none of it is in a good way. That’s for them, between themselves, to ask why and do something about it. While things are this way, success on the field will be nigh impossible.