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European Super League

  • Clifford Chance paid €2m by European Super League before it failed

    European Super League

    City Law firm Clifford Chance LLP were among the recipients of over €4m (£3.4m) paid out by the European Super League in the months before it failed, according to reports. The firm was one of two major international law firms as well as eight media agencies, according to Bloomberg News, which first reported the news. [...]

  • Paris Saint-Germain hit back at LaLiga boss Javier Tebas in increasingly bitter war of words with Spanish football league chief

    PSG hit back at Spanish football league boss in stinging letter

    Paris Saint-Germain have hit back at LaLiga boss Javier Tebas after he labelled them “enemies” and “as dangerous as the European Super League”. The outspoken Spanish league chief, a long-standing critic of the spending of PSG and Manchester City, also derided the French club’s signing of Lionel Messi at the age of 34. In a [...]

  • Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City among Super League rebels to return to European Club Association

    European Super League rebels rejoin top club body the ECA

    Nine of the rebel football clubs who agreed to join a breakaway European Super League – including six Premier League sides – have rejoined the European Club Association (ECA). The teams renounced their memberships of the influential group, which represents more than 200 of Europe’s leading clubs, as part of their decision to join the [...]

  • Socios: The blockchain-enabled fan token platform promising to unlock revenue from the global fanbases of sport’s most famous teams

    July 31, 2021

    Football’s transfer market may have lacked headline-grabbing deals so far this summer but the same can’t be said for Socios. The platform, which sells “fan tokens” offering supporters the chance to influence decisions at their team, has instantly increased visibility with a clutch of major partnerships. Last week Socios announced the launch of an Arsenal [...]

  • Six Premier League clubs fined £22m over failed European Super League project

    June 9, 2021

    The Premier League has fined six English clubs who tried to join a breakaway European Super League a combined £22m. The rebel teams – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur – will pay £3.67m each. But they face fines of £25m per club and 30-point deductions should they attempt a similar [...]

  • Zinedine Zidane to leave Real Madrid after season without a trophy

    May 27, 2021

    Zinedine Zidane has left Real Madrid for a second time as a manager after the Spanish powerhouse finished the 2020-21 season without a trophy. Real said they respected the decision of their former player Zidane, who returned to the Santiago Bernabeu dugout in 2019. They said his “professionalism, dedication and passion” over the years would [...]

  • Premier League and Manchester United named top of the table for cashing in on social media

    May 12, 2021

    The Premier League and Manchester United have the most valuable social media output across all sports, according to a new report. The Premier League is projected to derive £302m from activity on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by year end, more than any other sport competition in the world.  Manchester United, meanwhile, have a digital inventory [...]

  • Week in Sportbiz: Ed Sheeran sponsors Ipswich Town; Javier Tebas blasts Gianni Infantino; Tokyo 2020 set for first transgender Olympian

    May 6, 2021

    It has been a whirlwind few weeks at Ipswich Town. Fresh from welcoming new owners, the League One club now has an unlikely new shirt sponsor: Ed Sheeran.  The Suffolk songsmith, a long-standing fan of the Tractor Boys, has agreed to sponsor the men’s and women’s team on a one-year deal that starts next season. [...]

  • European Super League organisers claimed Bayern had caved in order to tempt PSG to table

    May 4, 2021

    European Super League organisers lied about which teams had joined the breakaway in a bid to get others to sign up, sources close to the talks have claimed. Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain, last season’s Champions League finalists, were among the big clubs to refuse a spot in the scuppered project. But just hours before [...]

  • European Super League fallout: Tottenham fans’ group calls for radical shake-up of football club ownership

    May 1, 2021

    Club executives involved in the failed European Super League were forced to resign from advisory roles at the Premier League this week. The move was a consequence of England’s so-called ‘Big Six’ – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur – agreeing to join a new breakaway competition which collapsed under the [...]

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