Finance expert shares Liverpool Super League verdict
Liverpool will not be interested in participating in any potential revised European Super League, according to Dan Plumley.
The Reds are currently top of the Champions League table after the competition revised the format to include a league phase and could earn up to £248 million if they win the Premier League and Europe’s most prestigious competition.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that the failed Super League project had re-emerged as the ‘Unify League’ after collapsing in April 2021 amid fan pressure.[Sky Sports, 17 December]
Speaking exclusively to Liverpool News, the football finance expert believes that the Merseysiders would not entertain the idea, saying: “I think it is unlikely.
Even given this news and it still wasn’t much detail behind it, it was just kind of another exercise for the Super League to pop its head up again, see what it looks like in the future.
I think it is unlikely that Liverpool would entertain it at this stage, I think the Premier League clubs have played their hand and they’ll be sticking behind UEFA and the Champions League for the foreseeable future.”
Fans would not allow Liverpool to join Super League
The Champions League and Liverpool are a match made in heaven.
The Reds have won the competition six times, the most of any British club by a considerable margin.
Owner John W. Henry was forced to release an apology after the club attempted to join the original Super League plans and would not want to risk another major backlash from the Anfield faithful.
Reds fans would now be able to block their club from joining any breakaway competition due to a Supporters Board that is written into the articles of association. [Daily Mail, 22 December 2023]
The new Champions League format has turned out to be more competitive than the old format, so it is even more unlikely that any Super League project gets off the ground.
Even if it does, the Reds will not join it, the fans would not allow it and now they have the legal means to veto it.
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