The proposal for a breakaway league reveals a deep contempt for competitive sport, reducing football to a tool for capitalist dominance.
As the dust settles on the European Super League debacle, football will likely take some time to reflect on how we arrived at this point. The idea of a breakaway league was not an unforeseen event but the culmination of years of power being shifted from the grassroots of the game to elite, profit-driven entities. These clubs, driven by financial interests, have engineered a scenario where such a move feels almost inevitable.
The European Super League is an idea birthed from disdain for the very essence of football. It could only have been conceived by those who despise the sport’s competitive nature, who see the passion and unpredictability of the game as a distraction from capitalism’s true goal: control and profit. This scheme aims to gut the spirit of football, reducing it to a series of closed doors where money, not merit, decides the winners.
The timing of the announcement couldn’t have been more telling: as elite clubs like Arsenal and Juventus were struggling in domestic leagues, further underlining the divide between the global super-clubs and local teams. This move represents a desire to break away from the very foundation of competitive sport, replacing it with a model where the wealthiest clubs dictate the rules.
