Fresh plans for European Super League emerge as organisers include up to 80 teams | OneFootball

A fresh plan for the European Super League has been revealed as organisers are structuring a new competition to replace the Champions League.

The European Super League has been a hotly debated topic of late with clubs such as Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus still pushing for its inception.

According to The Telegraph, the new competition would involve a 60-80-team tournament with no permanent members and a minimum of 14 games per club, per season.

A22, a company formed to sponsor and assist with the creation of the Super League, has already consulted plenty of clubs around Europe with the new proposal.

A22’s chief executive, Bernd Reichart has explained the latest developments on what the Super League would look like.

He told the German newspaper Die Welt: “The foundations of European football are in danger of collapsing. It’s time for a change.

“It is the clubs that bear the entrepreneurial risk in football. But when important decisions are at stake, they are too often forced to sit idly by on the sidelines as the sporting and financial foundations crumble around them.

“Our talks have also made it clear that clubs often find it impossible to speak out publicly against a system that uses the threat of sanctions to thwart opposition.

“Our dialogue was open, honest, constructive and resulted in clear ideas about what changes are needed and how they could be implemented. There is a lot to do and we will continue our dialogue.”

One of the biggest criticisms of the first Super League proposal was the notion that there would be permanent members and no relegation system.

Gary Neville was one of the biggest critics of the first iteration of the Super League as he suggested the organisers were ‘disconnected from reality’.

When discussing the original plans for a Super League, Neville explained: “The proposal will get kicked out because the fans will hate it, the governments will hate it, FIFA will hate, UEFA will hate it, the Premier League have come out already and say they hate it, you’ll hate it, I’ll hate it. And they are so disconnected from reality to think they could put this forward at any time, let alone now.

“I said during the game that I thought the clubs that signed up to it should be deducted points, that includes this club – the club that I love and I’ve supported all my life. But I’m ashamed of them, absolutely ashamed – for two reasons.

“Firstly, that they would want to sign up to a competition that is franchise football essentially, with no promotion or relegation, almost like that right to play the biggest games all the time – that’s not the ethic and ethos Manchester United was built on.

“And the timing is my second point. So Man Utd as a football club to vote for this is disgusting. The timing of it, the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of an economic crisis, not just in football but in this world, to demonstrate greed rather than compassion is an absolute shocker as far as I’m concerned.”

The idea of the Super League doesn’t seem to be going away as this latest proposal could tempt clubs back into making a decision.