A key legal decision will this week make a landmark decision regarding the European Super League (ESL) plot.
Back in April 2021, 12 teams including Liverpool were part of a clandestine plan to create a breakaway competition featuring the biggest clubs on the continent. It was a competition where they would have had control over revenue distribution and would have been able to take a far larger slice of the pie from media deals.
The Reds, along with Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, AC Milan, Internazionale, Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, all signed up to the competition, which was planned to be a 20-team competition with 15 founding clubs.
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The proposals were announced on April 18, 2021 but within 48 hours they were lying in tatters after the project was emphatically rejected by football fans, other clubs, leagues, organisations, politicians and the wider football family. One by one the owners of the clubs fell like dominoes, with Fenway Sports Group supremo John W. Henry recording a piece to camera in the hours that followed to apologise to supporters and shoulder the blame for the decision.
Liverpool have made their stance clear since then that they have removed themselves from the ESL conversation, although some grey areas remain in terms of which clubs have managed to legally detach themselves from the competition that they originally signed up for. The Super League website, more than two and a half years on from its failure as an idea, remains live.
In a statement sent to the ECHO last year, that
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