London (AFP) – Furious fans gathered outside Stamford Bridge to protest against the proposed European Super League ahead of Chelsea's Premier League clash with Brighton on Tuesday. Chelsea are one of 12 leading European clubs to have signed up to an incendiary scheme that has plunged football into civil war. Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, […]

Paris (AFP) – As the clubs who want to form a Super League focus on their economic futures, they find themselves attacked on all sides for being at odds with football's past. "Created by the poor, stolen by the rich," read one banner held up by fans outside Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium on Monday. […]

Milan (AFP) – Juventus coach Andrea Pirlo said Tuesday the new Super League was a "project for the future" as his side focus on their battle to qualify for the Champions League next season. "It's a development for the world of football. There have been many changes over these years, from the Champions League to […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich on Tuesday gave a clear "no" to a breakaway Super League as club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was elected to UEFA's executive committee, replacing Juventus supremo Andrea Agnelli as a representative of the European Club Association (ECA). Rummenigge made it clear that club world champions Bayern will not be joining the […]

London (AFP) – The 14 Premier League clubs not involved in the proposed European Super League "unanimously and vigorously rejected" the plans at an emergency meeting on Tuesday. The clubs met with league chiefs and the English Football Association to discuss the breakaway competition — involving the "big six" of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, […]

Milan (AFP) – Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a doubt for AC Milan's midweek Serie A home game against Sassuolo, coach Stefano Pioli said on Tuesday. Ibrahimovic was suspended last weekend as Milan won at the San Siro for the first time in over two months against Genoa. But the 39-year-old Swede and French left-back Theo Hernandez […]

Montreux (Switzerland) (AFP) – Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was on Tuesday elected to UEFA's executive committee and replaced Juventus supremo Andrea Agnelli as a representative of the European Club Association (ECA). Rummenigge, whose term of office lasts three years, replaces Agnelli, who quit as ECA president amid plans for a new Super League with […]

Lausanne (AFP) – The declaration of a private Super League has hurled UEFA and the 12 rebel football clubs into a complex legal and political battle, fraught with wider implications for European sport. Will the spat between European football's governing body and the breakaway big clubs end up in the courts? – What is the […]

London (AFP) – Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has criticised the closed format of a proposed breakaway European Super League, saying it is "not sport" if success is guaranteed. City are one of 12 clubs to have signed up to the proposal, alongside Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, […]

Madrid (AFP) – Be it business, football or politics, Real Madrid's Florentino Perez has always played at the top of his game, now donning the captain's armband for the Super League that has sparked a war within European football. "What is so attractive about it? That we're playing the big teams. That makes it more […]

London (AFP) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned "no action is off the table" — including new legislation — to stop the European Super League after meeting with football chiefs and fan groups on Tuesday. His comments came as FIFA president Gianni Infantino warned the breakaway competition could face "consequences", with the backlash building […]

Milan (AFP) – AC Milan chief executive officer Ivan Gazidis insisted Tuesday the breakaway Super League will be the "start of a new chapter" which would reap benefits for everyone down to grassroots football. In a letter to the club's sponsors published in La Gazzetta dello Sport, Gazidis claimed the new midweek competition would revolutionise […]

Madrid (AFP) – Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane on Tuesday refused to give his opinion on the controversial European Super League, saying that was a "question for one man" — club president Florentino Perez. The Spanish giants are one of 12 European clubs who launched the breakaway competition on Monday, with Perez the league's first […]

London (AFP) – Everton have condemned the "preposterous arrogance" of the "big six" Premier League clubs who are involved in plans to set up a European Super League. The club's neighbours Liverpool have joined Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham and six clubs from continental Europe in signing up for a breakaway competition. […]

Montreux (Switzerland) (AFP) – FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Tuesday warned that clubs involved in the European Super League could face "consequences", as the backlash built against the deeply divisive plans. Infantino leant his support to European football's governing body as it attempts to quash an initiative that threatens its prized Champions League and the […]