formalizing European Super League Sunday was news in every corner of the world and every football fan talked about this tournament that most consider a “shame”.
Players, former players and coaches have shown their anger at the monopolization of the biggest teams in the old continent with this tournament that will start next season.
Ander Herrera, Spanish player of PSG, posted an emotional message on his Instagram account about what he thinks about Superliga and the damage it could do to the number five sport.
“I fell in love with popular football, with football fans, with the dream of seeing the team in my heart competing against the biggest ones. If this European superleague advances, those dreams are over, the illusions of fans of teams that are not giants of the power to win on the field competing in the best competitions are over.
I like football, I can’t keep quiet about it, I believe in one Champions League improved, but not that the rich steal what people have created, which is nothing but the most beautiful sport on the planet, “he posted. Herrera.
Also the firstreal Madrid and current football player of Fenerbahce, Mesut ÖzilHe raised his voice on the subject. “Children dream of him world and champions, Not with Superliga. The good thing about big games is that they only happen once or twice a year, not every week, “he wrote on Twitter.
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In the afternoon, the Portuguese Bruno Fernandes, de Manchester United, seemed to be against the idea. In his Instagram profile, he shared, adding the mention “dreams cannot be bought”, the post of his compatriot from Wolverhampton Daniel Podence, who expressed his attachment to the current “championswhen we remember “Zidane’s volley” or the dramatic 1999 Champions League final in which United exceeded Bayern Munich in reduction time.
The former football player Luis Figo She also criticized the competition: “This greedy and insensitive move would be a disaster for our roots, for women’s football and for the entire football community as a whole, just to serve the interests of owners who have long ceased to care about his fans. sporting merit. Tragic “.
The historical coach of Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson, assured that the creation of this tournament represents a giant obstacle in football.
“It simply came to our notice then Superliga will start from 70 years of European football. Being a player for a provincial team like Dunfermline in the 1960s and coaching Aberdeen, winning the Cup Winners’ Cup for a small Scottish club was like climbing Everest. In my years in United I played four finals of Champions League and they have always been the most special nights. Fans around the world love the Champions League as it is, “the Scot told Reuters.
Likewise, his ex-boyfriend from “Red Devils”, Gary Naville The legend of England, hit by the sets of First league who will participate in Superliga and classified this competition as “a criminal act against fans.”
“I am a fan of Manchester United And I’ve been for the last 40 years, but I’m disgusted. Above all, with United and Liverpool. Liverpool selling “you will never go alone”. United, over a hundred years old, who was born thanks to the workers in the area. And to want to go to a league without competition, where you can’t even be relegated … It’s an absolute shame. Honestly, we have to take power from the big clubs in this country “, he started.
“The owners of all these clubs are impostors, it is pure greed, they are nobody. They have nothing to do in football in this country. There is more than a hundred years of history in this country of fans who have lived and loved these clubs and must be protected. I have benefited from football, I am not against money, but I defend the principles and ethics of fair competition and that there is the right to Leicester go to champions after winning premier”.
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” Manchester United, spurs and Arsenal I’m not even in the Champions League. Arsenal Is it club chaos and do you expect a divine right to enter the European Super League? It’s disgusting. Get points from them. Take money from them. Punish them. Seriously, this is very serious, it’s criminal. It is a criminal act against football fans in this country. We are in the middle of a pandemic, an economic crisis, the clubs at the bottom of the national league are retiring, and these owners are talking about more money. It is pure greed. It’s an absolute joke, “he concluded. Neville for microphones Sky Sports.