Mini-Documentary :The Rise & Fall Of The European Super League | The E.S.L. Explained |

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00:00 Intro
01:11 - Previous Attempts at a Super League
03:44 Why It Was Attempted Now And Not Earlier
05:22 How It Would Have Worked
06:39 The negative effects it would have
10:05 How UEFA fought back
11:16 Why The ESL was not scared
13:21 Why UEFA are almost as bad as the ESL
16:58 How fans saved the day
18:48 My Thoughts

[FootballMadeSimple]

A different style of video, I hope you liked it! Likes & Shares appreciated if you did
at 09:20 is supposed to be the super league on the right
01:11 - Previous Attempts at a Super League
03:44 Why It Was Attempted Now And Not Earlier
05:22 How It Would Have Worked
06:39 The negative effects it would have
10:05 How UEFA fought back
11:16 Why The ESL was not scared
13:21 Why UEFA are almost as bad as the ESL
16:58 How fans saved the day
18:48 My Thoughts

[sixshot]

i like that you highlighted UEFA and FIFA’s corruption also. they are part of the problem in modern day football.

[NoTengoDinero]

As an American who only very casually watches football this was very informative. I genuinely feel like I understand why European fans were upset. Great video!

[faramund]

The problem of a Super League isn’t that big clubs play big clubs more often. Or that they break away from UEFA/FIFA.

It’s the fact that they had fixed spots, rather than a system of qualification.

[dennismajemite]

Thanks so much, this really made me understand the whole situation

[SergioCreates]

This pandemic has showed us that rich people will do anything to get more money. Great video FMS, very informative.

[catap.i.]

Been watching your vids 4 years, but this one was on a whole new quality level

[iillestrs]

As an American when I first started following soccer heavily I genuinely thought this was the coolest idea, I thought relegation was stupid ect. As the years went by I started to realize why Europeans were so upset by the idea, I also learned how fun relegation battles were. Literally all of my original views changed overtime lol

[chaitanyaraj]

This just adds a whole new dimension to this channel. Incredible video, top notch quality as always.

[Dylancougar]

Over here in the states this is the first time I'm hearing about any of this. So I really appreciate the time you took to put this together. You earned a new subscriber.

[tarik]

What a lot of people don't realize is that we are already in a Super League system by default. Football's best years were from about 1990 to about 2011, afterwards it started going downhill. With the new Champions League reform from 2024, it's about to get even worse. Two UCL spots will be given to the team with the highest club coefficient that weren't able to qualify through their domestic leagues. In other words, if a team like Manchester City were to end up 7th in the English Premier League or if a team like Juventus were to end up 6th in Serie A, both would still qualify for the UCL the next season.

Now long gone are the days where so called smaller clubs like Marseille, Lyon, Monaco, PSV Eindhoven, Galatasaray, Valencia could hope to win the Champions League or give the bigger (now much richer) clubs a run for their money. Now football is no longer based on merit, it's based on what you have in your bank account.

[bacunnnn]

I think a european super league with relegation and promotion would be more attractive, maybe 20 teams but 10 get relegated each season to allow more teams into the super league across europe which teams have to qualify through playing in a knockout stage.

[fuzzyhair]

What I've noticed, UEFA spoke in English which is really curious. Considering how the big players really want to play for their country. Looking at Zlatan, it would break his heart if he couldn't play in the world cup, especially at his response to getting the chance again to represent Sweden. I can't speak for Belgium's but the English they would riot

[narutokunn]

Felt like a Rabona TV video. Superb video.

[andrewhodyss]

And in the end it got replaced by the FIFA champions league which is literally just the super league but fifa owning it 🤦

[adirttodip]

Excellent video brother.
It is the best detailed video on this topic.Thank u for the time tags too.

[jim]

First of all, this is probably the second time I comment on a YouTube video, I wanna say that your channel is one of the best, and I learn so much from it, so, thank you, and keep up the good work. I have a suggestion for you, you could start something like a series explaining some of the changes in the rules and regulations of some cups and leagues, for example, the premier league in the 90s and the champions league, I hope you got the idea.

[trevormhundwa]

The has been the best explanation of the ESL saga. You have just gained yourself a sub!

[TheSolarGuyJK]

I hate that ideas like The Super League have to first come up to show us how FIFA and UEFA have failed football!!
These super clubs ended up creating a problem that they now think they have to solve, which is capitalizing football. In due course, some of them couldn’t keep up with the demands of high quality and spent even more to try and keep up there (Juventus, Barça and Real Madrid). That run them straight into financial problems that they themselves started. The Super League looked like an idea for them to feast on a profitable premier league to keep up their revenues (6 of the top 10 high earning clubs are from England, and all the premier league teams (20) are in the top 50 earners in Europe, yet only 6 are regular UEFA participants).

The problem is much much bigger than the Super League. There is significant imbalances in clubs in Europe when it comes to finances. Nottingham Forest were promoted last season but they spent more than Atletico Madrid, Dortmund, Sevilla, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Napoli, Valencia, and other clubs playing UEFA competitions regularly… that speaks a lot.

On the other hand, FIFA, the global football managers make way less than UEFA. There are even allegations that Infantino was part of the Super League plans as he saw an opportunity to build up a global super league club competition that would make FIFA more money than the one competition they have every four years (World Cup).
Now, I’m not saying that money is not needed in planning and running these competitions, but capitalism and greed have made the problem much worse.

In conclusion, money has destroyed many things, and football is one of them.

[DGoalvideogameO_o]

I rarely watch 20 minutes analysis but I didn't get bored
Awesome analysis 😍