Has the time come for a European Super League?
The Inquiry
BBC
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🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The idea of a breakaway football league for Europe’s elite clubs has been discussed for decades.
It hasn’t happened yet, but could that be about to change?
Industry experts say officials from the continent’s biggest and most successful teams are meeting behind-closed-doors to discuss the proposition.
So we’re asking - has the time come for a European Super League?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the inquiry. I'm Charmaine Cozier. Each week one question, four experts and an answer. |
| 0:07.0 | Barcelona is one of the world's most famous football clubs. |
| 0:15.0 | It's enjoyed a glamorous reputation and attracted some of the best players on the planet, |
| 0:21.0 | like Ronaldineo and Messy. |
| 0:25.0 | It's collected a record 74 domestic trophies |
| 0:29.0 | and won the Champions League five times. |
| 0:40.0 | Last season it broke another record by earning more money than any other club in Europe. 841 million euros. |
| 0:45.0 | But recently things are not going well. |
| 0:48.0 | They keep spending large sums on players that don't deliver. |
| 0:51.0 | They've become also rands in the Champions League. |
| 0:55.0 | And worst of all, messy wants to leave. |
| 1:00.0 | Off the pitch, the entire board of directors and president Joseph Maria Bartim Mayo resigned |
| 1:06.1 | after fans and club members campaigned against weak leadership. |
| 1:11.1 | Towards the end of a long farewell speech to reporters, |
| 1:14.0 | Barton Mayo suddenly announced he had some news that will |
| 1:17.0 | A well, |
| 1:18.0 | well, before a newsia a notice that came to the |
| 1:21.0 | extraordinary |
| 1:22.0 | changed the club's income in an extraordinary way. |
| 1:25.0 | Barcelona had accepted proposals to join other top flight teams in a breakaway group, |
| 1:32.0 | a European Super League. |
| 1:34.0 | But it's probably the acceptation of recriments to participate |
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