Bosses of other Premier League clubs have delivered a hard-hitting warning to the owners of Liverpool and the rest of the English-based European Super League rebels, declaring that they want them to go.
Despite Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur pulling out of the breakaway tournament that threatened to be a private members club rather than a competition where qualification was achieved through merit just 48 hours after it was announced on Sunday, the rest of football has been left reeling by the selfishness and breathtaking arrogance of their attempted actions.
The other 14 Premier League clubs held an emergency meeting on Monday over what to do and Sky Sports reports that some of the verdicts from the chief executives are damning.
Reading out statements from three unnamed CEOs from some of the other 14, Sky’s Kaveh Solekol quoted the first as saying: “These clubs need to find new people to represent them at the Premier League meetings – they have to be replaced.
“We can’t deal with them again. Some of these people have more faces than the town clock.”
A second chief executive declared: “If this plan had gone through, it would have ruined the other 14 clubs, we would have been destroyed.
“We have absolutely no problem with the fans, players, managers and staff of those six clubs but we have big, big problems with their owners and CEOs.”
Meanwhile, a third warned: “Ideally we want the owners to sell up but we know that’s not going to happen.
“What they can do though if replace these people and bring in some fresh faces.
“What they’ve done goes against everything we stand for. If these people ever come to one of our meetings again we will stonewall them, we will blank them.”
