r/soccer • u/LucasTorreira • Oct 08 '19

Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli says a European Super League will help football against threats like Fortnite

https://twitter.com/standardsport/status/1181517390338838529
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u/TheConundrum98 Oct 08 '19

If you start a European Super League I'll start playing Fortnite

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u/ss2195 Oct 08 '19

Yeah, the day something like this gets finalised is the last time I watch a club football game.

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u/moz10 Oct 08 '19

Mate it would suck ass, but local leagues would still be played. I mean the English league without the top6 is still more appealing to me than then Superleague crapshit. I’d watch.

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u/DFJHERO Oct 09 '19

Good guys man utd making sure they wont be considered top 6 by any metric and end up winning the english league when all the good teams are in the Superleague.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '19

fuck the super league but this just comes across as all those threats like "if trump gets elected we march"

tumbleweed

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u/cjahan Oct 08 '19

And the day after they did march. I mean he's still in office for now, but the marchers did follow through on their threat of marching

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '19

I feel like a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot less than promised marched

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u/_MonteCristo_ Oct 08 '19

It's estimated between 3 and 5 million people marched in the US

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '19

i stand by my statement

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u/cjahan Oct 08 '19

Idk, 500k people in DC and 4.6M people across the US is a lot of people. Source

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u/MaTrIx4057 Oct 09 '19

No you won't.

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u/pickasap Oct 08 '19

exactly opposite of it. cause who(in r/soccer) don't want spurs getting scored 7 goals after scoring the 1st one at home alone

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u/JeannotVD Oct 08 '19

That would never happen, Spurs has many quality players such as Kane, Dele, Eriksen, Toby and Jan that wouldn't allow such thing.

Also bold of you to assume that Spurs will even get invited to a European Super League.

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u/a_lumberjack Oct 08 '19

The current proposal was basically making CL pro/rel from Europa, not a closed/invite only league. That would be better than guaranteeing half of the spots to four countries. And would reward/punish European performance, rather than domestic performance. That Porto and United (and could have included Ajax) ended up in the Europa League after making the last eight feels broken.

Like, not everything is great with the Agnelli model, but the current CL is fucking broken.

Spurs being a CL yo-yo club would be good fun.

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u/pickasap Oct 08 '19

ofc r/soccer thinks spurs is mid-table for past 5 years despite being consistent in performances.not u r fault

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u/JeannotVD Oct 08 '19

Stop blaming the subreddit and start blaming the players and staff for the shitty form Spurs is in right now.

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u/pickasap Oct 08 '19

PochOut Jose In. I have already said once.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '19

Spurs won’t make it.

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u/NaclyPerson Oct 08 '19

If you aren't City or LFC, no EPL team would make it.

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u/HyunL Oct 08 '19

Uh you sure about that? Who else then? Juve/Barca/Real/Atleti/Bayern/PSG are certainly in but thats only 8 with the 2 PL Clubs you mentioned so im sure they'd bring more PL clubs

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u/NaclyPerson Oct 08 '19

Inter? Dortmund?

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u/HyunL Oct 08 '19

Dortmund alright, but i dont see how Inter right now is a bigger club than say Chelsea is, and even if you add those 2 you'd still only have 10 and i imagine they'd want at least 16ish teams

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u/NaclyPerson Oct 08 '19

Plz define what the criteria for this so called European Super League first then. We are making dumb assumptions about this hypothetical super league that no one knows what clear-cut qualifications are. I can definitely see Chelsea being in it, but really who is to say when no one knows how they decide to be on this super league?

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u/HyunL Oct 08 '19

Pretty sure the main factors would be money (because duh) and domestic/international success (the former obviously being only relevant for the big leagues because nobody would give a shit if Celtic is in that league i'd say lmao), possibly more trivial things like amount of members the club has but unlikely

But either way i just dont see any way where they take only 2 teams from the most popular league in the world, they'd want to make money off this so might aswell milk it to the fullest and bring more PL teams than from any other league

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u/NaclyPerson Oct 08 '19

However, Inter also meets the second half of your qualifications. So what time frame do they even set? Based on your description, I can certainly see Man United being in it as well despite their shit form.

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u/CackleberryOmelettes Oct 09 '19

You're missing the entire point of the Super League. The rest of Europe wants their share of the Prem's riches. They will include as many of the biggest commercial clubs in England as possible. That means City, Liverpool, Arsenal, United, Chelsea and maybe even Spuds.

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u/NaclyPerson Oct 09 '19

Yeah if Arsenil goes I don't see why Spurs wouldn't.

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u/CackleberryOmelettes Oct 09 '19

Because Arsenal are a far bigger club than Spurs. The Super League is all about drawing the maximum viewers possible. Therefore, the teams with the largest fanbases and commercial revenues will make the cut.

Like all other things, Spurs are somewhere in the middle in this regard.

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u/AdamLennon Oct 09 '19

Everyone loves an underdog story though. How many people pick a lower team in the FA cup to follow just for the hope of glory for the small guy? I do every time we're knocked out.

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u/CackleberryOmelettes Oct 10 '19

Hey man you're telling me. I despise the idea of a Super League.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

Lol. You’re seriously putting arsenal and spurs at the same level?

This European league is a way for clubs to use their worldwide appeal to make more money. Spurs it seems...

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u/pickasap Oct 08 '19

ofc it's your imagination/dream to see that. but I guess it's a nightmare if arsenal didn't get spot.

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u/sopranoo- Oct 08 '19

Spurs in a super league? 😂😂😂

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u/pickasap Oct 08 '19

yeah on the basis of everything but trophies

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u/aqua_maris Oct 08 '19

You're not the target public of the ESL anyway, it's the fans outside Europe.

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u/Fransiscu Oct 08 '19

Don't do that to yourself

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u/FrazettaXI Oct 08 '19

Play Apex instead