All the Premier League clubs signed up to the European Super League withdrew hours after the FA warned that any club involved would be banned from all domestic competitions
www.theguardian.com
No, I do not like this.
It's pretty clear that what they want is to force those involved out.
They already bagged Woodward. Kroenke purportedly wants out, which I suspected was going to happen anyway given his LA project and current events...he just hoped it would be at a better price following the success of the venture.
Is Woodward's head going to satisfy the clubs, or do they want to go higher? Drive Levy out, or force the owner to sell? Do Abramovich and the Sheikh get brownie points for bringing the pressure to bear to bring this thing down, or were they even responsible for the endgame? Are FSG going to rue not having a Comolli figure to take the fall?
Are the English clubs going to push in UEFA for similar measures with respect to the Spanish and Italian clubs? Do they get them? If so, how are they going to handle the curious case of Laporta, who inherited the mess and did not apply the brakes but perhaps could not do so without burning the relationships with the very clubs he has to do business in the transfer market with?
Everything seems to be coalescing on: we don't want the clubs punished. We want the principals - the owners and presidents - gone.
Will that even work? Aren't the next owners and presidents going to face the same realities, and be motivated similarly to make similar moves? What safeguards can be put into place to protect the existing system? Is it even worth saving, or is the issue that these men had a valid point but went about making it in a classless, self-centered and destructive way?
There's a lot of story left to be written here.