and of the breakaway super league featuring 12 of europe's biggest clubs since it was announced on sunday. u.k. prime minister barak johnson has welcomed a decision by 6 english football clubs to pull out johnson called it the right result for fans clubs and communities across the country he emphasized the need to protect what he called britain's cherished national game. and let's take you through some of the stories we're following here now to syria now former police officer derek shore been has been found guilty on all 3 charges including 2nd degree murder for the killing of george floyd shore and is due to be sentenced in 8 weeks and faces up to 40 years in prison. now no verdict can bring george perry floyd back to us. but this verdict does give a message to his family that he was somebody that his life matters that all of our

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a guild meeting today about. fixing a war torn economy counting the cost on al-jazeera. european football in crisis some of its biggest clubs have announced a league of their own fans and governing bodies say they've betrayed the sport but what's really behind this move this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. there are some of the biggest names in sport european football clubs like manchester united and riyadh madrid have become a global phenomenon drawing big name stars and millions of followers they're now among 12 elite teams who have announced a breakaway competition of their own called the european super league many fans reacted in anger while some voiced their support but the sport's governing bodies

say they'll do everything in their power to stop the project while those behind the new super league insist the change is necessary we'll bring in our guests in a moment 1st this report from the parker. hours after some of the continent's richest clubs threaten to split european football into the sport's governing body in europe you wafer hit back hard saying you were expelled the clubs players from future european championships and world cups i can't stress more strongly at this moment. in the footballing world stand united against these graceful self-serving proposals we have seen in the last 24 hours from a select few clubs in europe that are fuelled purely by greed above all else on sunday night 12 of the continent's richest clubs revealed plans to form a european super league rivaling you a 1st prestigious champions league barcelona madrid and that let it go have agreed

to join in spain in italy both ac and into milan have signed up alongside eventis and 6 clubs from england's premier league also want to join manchester united city liverpool chelsea arsenal and tottenham the managers of the teams have been dodging quick questions let's be honest i'm employee of this club and i trust this club and my chop is very clear so i'm maybe not the right person to ask. i'm just a manager and i'm prepared to coach my players under any circumstances the plans even prompted this intervention from the british prime minister we're going to look at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this doesn't go ahead of the way that it's currently being proposed so far no teams from france or germany including the current european champions by munich plan to join the new league but 3 more clubs are expected to sign up all set to pocket more than

$400000000.00 when they do in a project funded by u.s. banking giant j.p. morgan seriously in the midst of a pandemic an economic crisis football clubs at national league level going bust nearly furloughing players clubs on the edge in league one and 2 and these lobbying assume calls about breaking away and basically create more great. joke the super league clubs want to start as soon as possible but the premier league league and syria all joined in condemning the move so too have many fans competing clubs face being booted out of their domestic leeks several television broadcasters rules are refusing to abandon you a for a national league to join the new project but if it does go ahead football's single sporting pyramid from the lowest grassroots teams all the way to the top may never be the same again leave barca al-jazeera those behind the super league say they

want to kick off as soon as practicable the competition will have 20 teams the 15 founding members are guaranteed a place every year other clubs will compete for the remaining 5 spots as we've mentioned each team will earn $400000000.00 just for joining the league that's nearly 3 times more than what the champions league winner gets every year organizers say the format guarantees regular matches between the top teams this potentially means more fans in the stadiums more television viewers and more money for the clubs revenues have taken a hit during the pandemic it's predicted that the world's top 20 football clubs lost more than a $1000000000.00 from broadcasting and ticket sales. all right let's bring in our guests in london aqil vs an arsenal fan and board member of the arsenal supporters trust. in law for a u.k. garcia senior lecturer in sports management and policy at law for university and in beirut tran of each strategic adviser adel e sports focusing on sports signal a-g.

a warm welcome to you all but let me start with you today this idea of a super league well maybe not the exact same thing but the idea has been discussed for years was it the pandemic that pushed it across the line and why why now yeah i think thanks for having me indeed this has been around progress is the ninety's in this pursuit of the late ninety's around the time of the griffin of the champions league and has followed all of our careers for quite some time while now i think although one handy thing that depend demick if it's the level of back in the major laps half accumulate in there in the last year on the all of the other recent i think that which is very important is probably far less this cast is their ability of capitally sponsor bent your head most of them coming from the united states who have decided to invest heavily in the sport not only in football not only put what

about the course. in iraq the other sports and now they want to finance the super late and i think that probably that is what has people who are the line if you if as president describe the super league plan as a spit in the face of football lovers and said that the clubs and players should be banned from all you wait for competitions as soon as possible what happens next what kind of impact is going to have on the rest of the season i mean if this becomes a protracted affair then you could be thinking ok this is actually a reality but there's going to be some you know legal rumblings around whether or not they can play in these tournaments but as long as this is kind of nipped in the but you know we have torn in this road you know on our doorstep we have you which as we all know or we're just on time last year cut to 2022 where we're at around the corner as well. so i think timing is key if we let this drag on and it just gets more serious. as you said they want to start

a sop i think that's another important factor but speaking of timing as well you know they said this just as you have for us and it's under threat from you have as president was unfeeling the new champions league format to expand to the i mean expand the tournament and also kind of give in to this idea of the super elite because as we see in basketball and the euro league. it's it's a different format it's not a group stages so the champions league will change football is changing we all agree with this but i feel like there was a great miscalculation and the public mood when this was revealed because i would add to what books aside i agree with everything he said but football these days with a lot of fans who could force their discontent was there not because usually but i mean with the far and with you know the pandemic stopping us from going to games i feel like they thought this was their you know the right time to go ahead and it's not fire i mean there's developments every minute but it looks like it's backfired

calea was just talking there about this announcement really back flying as far as the timing i was looking at your twitter feed in particular before the show and i saw many posts about how as a fan you were so disappointed in this announcement and the possible formation of a super league let me ask you why has this triggered such a strong response among fans. it is it really takes away the sporting merit you know nobody wants a closed shop and that's essentially what this is going to do it's going to mean the saints each other every single year but still more for fun who wants a football from what's variety of fun want promotion relegation excitement you know by having the european super league domestic leagues are going to be weaker and i look at the premier league alicia going to win it finishing 2nd to finish and 15 means nothing because if your last though when you finish 15th you're going to be

in the euro in the european simply to finish 2nd was double a b. so what's insensitive about cheap playing you know and you know if you're a leicester city or west family 5 rates. and then you're told even though you finished 4th you're now you're not going to be in these top level european football what's the point so that it's going to be is for that result in a lot of the mistakes in the from elite. ultimately it is the little football says absolutely runs an absolute disgrace but how britain has said that they are going to do everything within their power to stop this super league from happening they said that all options are on the table and they're even going to discuss ways of potentially penalizing the 6 english clubs that have signed up to the super league can the government of britain actually accomplish this can they actually prevent the super league from happening well it is so it is difficult at this of course difficult because the remember that we are in britain which is

a country which is focused on ali very liberal very business oriented and you get some how ironic it is really really ironic somehow that you can 2nd so much if governmental worst of paperbacks your nest national to go against the development of business especially in a well up and off they are british base and that's all they're on by other countries when they want to make them take their money away on their brackets or there is something in their lease usually ironic about these intentional. the conservative government of boris johnson now the question comes they do it well i think they can because the government of course they can always regulate it it's within their powers then of course it has to be done through that will govern through the parliament and then of course the class will always have recourse to the courts to that the present already there is perhaps one aspect that mr b. look at which is that we should not forget that especially the international olympic committee and the 5th up if i specially they all like governments intervening into a sport they really really don't like it on the other hand of course what's the

fuss really that's a lie is governments intervening in football a farce when they go against the south if a government is going to decide to intervene in for the 1st in favor to face up i think the fight is going to be far less worried about it it will take a major intervention it will take an intervention that i don't think we probably have seen in the united kingdom and also going take an intervention that will contradict a couple of the gates of the united states in the commercial business and even sport policy but they can do it in the fever had worn in january that any breakaway league would not be recognized by them and the players taking part could be banned potentially from playing in the world cup do you think that's going to happen and how might this impact the world cup going forward just today i was waiting for the players to speak. to you what they were going to spare to really bogged down there in a position where they can't really. predict their future as i said those tournaments

around the corner it's going to take a lot of. you know legal ramifications to see if you if if if if i can actually enforce this and also where because in sports you know usually goes the court of arbitration for sport and it could take even longer over there so as porter said it's something where where anything can happen the british government said yesterday but they before but even if the f.a. and people can do anything about it that they will stop and we've heard from royalty we've heard from from footballers they're coming out today so and last night so it'll be interesting to see how things develop but in the end. as as as barker said if if he perceives that the government are getting too in the weight of their decision making and problem aqil going forward do you think that we could see some kind of compromise struck that would be in the interests of both fans and

clubs and if so what do you think that compromise might look like i don't know i mean that's what people are saying or is this a massive negotiation sort of tactic is this kind of clubs really taking it that far is a big threat so then you wait for do compromise or we don't know you know we don't know there's so much going on you talked about government beef yeah supports truslow in a meeting with the premier league football association of local support those asians morning with a response i don't really know the opposition has done so for things that happening is not going on is there a compromise maybe and that's what you know i think that's what fans would want because the euro the euro is super league is taking full too far one way and you know you a certain fee for not squeaky clean and you know by no means are fans suddenly thinking they are. clearly some have it's all in been governed by its founders the

clubs doesn't quite sound right so the clubs definitely more influence when it's us from situations so we'll look to see what will happen there i hope something will be it will be solved but how from your perspective how much does all of this have to do with essentially making more drama for television i mean you tell you matt big clubs here with big stars playing each other more often leading to a bigger audience potential bigger revenue stream from broadcasting rights right guests from broadcasting or let's just call it perhaps a little bit more a wider commercial rights you know it can be if you're right it can be over the internet or to the operator or if i think it's about making more money out of the professional football i let the poor to the chairman of the spanish league i have your ask why once hair send in a conference our rivals of the lollipop are not the primarily are not the been the our rivals nowadays are netflix and amazon prime professional football sees itself

being as part of the entertainment industry for right or for wrong i'm not going to say this is where they should be but if this this is where they look at the south this is they want to fight for to pension up the people rather than what you can game of thrones the once the champions league rather than them watching any any of that t.v. news to watch the champions league so if indeed it is indeed about increasing revenue from data from that commercial operation if this increase and are reaching new audiences beyond europe and in a global market i'm not so sure it is a smart ass remark race charm apparently no parent 7 last night in this i'm still a vision i'm not so sure he said are recollecting with the u.s. we football it may well be that they are they think they are loose in the younger generation and spending their money in football that's what they may want to do but certainly yeah i would agree this is a. only about trying to increase those revenues and then also increase their share

of those revenues for specific as they call their ilia so many people have expressed anger at the announcement of the super league have said in one way or another that this is essentially a case of big business ruining football now do you see that as happening and is this essentially a case of rich clubs getting richer by sharing in the wealth of this what would be a very insular league while everyone sort of outside of it is struggling to stay financially viable sized i think i think gary nabel you know with with passion and buoyancy so as last night that is pure greed and you know someone like me i grew up watching arsenal or the arsenal but only because i couldn't watch red star belgrade and then over the years you know as deep as the road became more connected i could watch them and then 5 years ago you know low and behold rockstar was playing arsenal in the europa league to make a choice and i devise i was my 1st club started and you. know the past 5 years

we've been playing in and the europa league and champions league so you know to watch this i i know that we're probably going to win it we did win the european cup in 1901 unlike some i did talking to man city and arsenal who are who are the core founders or founding members of the super the but i do feel that many dreams will be dumped because many many football and twos used around the world i'm speaking as a fan now we support a hometown club and maybe one of the international votes so what this will do it will create such a distance between these top clubs like real madrid barcelona man city united and the smaller clubs i mean unless they're sure they're going to be left in the dark what about all the other books in europe i think you have for. you know there are no angels but they're expanding the tournament they're even creating

another tournament for 4 for the teams that finish 4th or 5th or 6th in their respective leagues so the product that we have the champions league is revered thought people love that message also said kids they dream of playing in the champions league with the world cup not and you're in super the so despite you know the melodrama i think it's warranted football is really a global language i worked for the world cup committee and cut it and. you know usually the big stories off the pitch how to do is cut. the world cup taking place in november for example when under a lot of scrutiny but at the end of the day this struggling conflict you actually see players play in tip top condition and i'm pretty standard i suppose going at the end of the season so there's a silver lining here i just simply don't find any silver lining if you're a football fan i kill as a football fan when you boil all this down does it essentially come down to the question of who owns football i mean doesn't all of this in the discussion around

it really highlight a growing disconnect between the big business of sport the community of sports fans especially when you're talking about just you know kids kicking around a ball and aspiring to be like their football hero. yeah absolutely i mean i think i think we've seen in the last few days who does really only for one research you know our stone house you know we don't call 'd them owners there are investors they're investing in our store so essentially made money here know we've we've we've met them a few once or twice in 10 years we don't hear from there this week all of the owners of collins are hiding after announcing their deal you know it's because they're ashamed you know that so defamed of if they want to shake their will be out there at spain's or smites think they're not. so who owns foot wall of you know it's sad but i mean what we've seen in the last year of the pandemic is you know football grounds the soulless without fans you know the t.v. companies have been trying to pump him fake noise which is also ridiculous to

replace us it's a more than noise to replace noise to replace our so i think you know essentially the biggest stakeholder 'd in 4 was found something the product is far weaker but we've seen that these owners you know that though they'll make decisions they'll be in other countries though hard. and you know they're trying to get away with it and hopefully we're not going to let them sort of what are some of the other challenges that's going to be that the super league would face and also could all this basically just fall apart and if so is there a way back from. well i think there are a number of challengers i could say that if one of the probably the most pressing at the moment is the social political challenge i don't think the organizers of the of the super league and dissipated the backlash i can think would know when the people knowing florentino perez know when the owners of the city grew they were ready to fight they were ready to fight back lash they already bully for example us

i'm the court of arbitration for sport but perhaps they miscalculated a little bit so the social political challenge is one the other actually i think it is going to be economically because one thing i missed starting to detect is that the 12 founders for the moment for the moment of course we have to wait they are actually having problems inviting other plops to their competition they wanted to have 3 more members and then they wanted to buy 5 more in order to make 20 and it seems for the moment they are going to. be there to invite plus they didn't want to invite or actually to try and do something different so that is going to be another another challenge and finally of course i think it is important to talk to them that's rather technical but we need to mention their legal challenge and their european law there is a possibility that someone goes to the european court and denounce that was found in class because they are basically behaving like a cartel they are a sickly close and that was the professional football market there are arguments in

favor of that there are arguments also against that but i think that the 2nd is that can be made then there will be a need for a judgment and actually the links to the body beginning of the program when we were talking about timing of course if it goes to dock it will drag for years and years and then perhaps the situation will change so certainly we have the social the social political challenge we have the economic we have the legal challenges and actually especially in that me that one failed to convince clubs i was thinking that actually this morning seems to me at least the biggest challenge. and then one back may actually. get things i get back in the bottom you know yet if this actually comes to fruition if the super league actually is accomplished do you expect that fans will ultimately follow i mean will it eventually get support from fans. personally i don't know we were talking earlier about you know the younger

generation i've worked very closely with 43 they're the biggest social media page have over 50000000 or 60000000 for all their platforms and great engagement. and their audience demographic is quite young. and most of the comments i've been reading 24 hours i've indicated that most people are against. of course you know football is the opium of the masses. it will be difficult to say what could happen down the line if it does exist but i feel that it will be met with some with some scrutiny but in the end i just don't think you know the model can succeed because. it's of it's very americanized you know you have the same teams playing against each other well majority of the teams will play against each other every season and as you're going club side and the other side who wants to see for example and every year takes away from reading there's also a great great

a lot of competition. which could could really you know hurt football. or not part of the joy of watching football is you know having minnows ups a. big club. you know like the relegation battle in the n.b.a. or american leagues with the draft system teams going tank you know they can say we're going to rebuild for the next 3 years and the drugs don't work out and you know there's like this lot of competition can really hurt the game and if the game starts and i feel the audience. all right we have run out of time so we're going to have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all of our guests aqil vs garcia and trey end of it and thank you too for watching you can see this and all of our previous programs again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j.

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