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Manchester United, Liverpool, Barcelona among clubs reportedly set to join breakaway European Super League
European football has threatened to ban any clubs that join a breakaway competition after the spectre of a European Super League re-emerged on the eve of a vote on Champions League reforms.
Key points:
- The Premier League’s ‘big six’ are reportedly on board with the new league, as well as major Spanish and Italian clubs
- Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville said the clubs were motivated by “pure greed”
- World leaders, including Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron, have weighed in to the debate
UEFA said it had learned a group of English, Spanish and Italian clubs “may be planning to announce their creation of a closed, so-called Super League”.
Multiple media reports, not denied by any of the clubs, who have remained silent, said that…
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