So here we go again. European football is back this week and last week the Super League

returned with promises of a new look structure based on sporting performance with no permanent

members. Is it too good to be true or could this be a positive reset for the game coming up you'll hear exactly what is being proposed and by whom and how football has responded and what happens next i'm mark chapman this is the athletic football podcast The The very foundation.

The very foundation of European football is under threat.

It is time for change.

European club football is at a tipping point.

Huge imbalances have emerged across the continent and clubs with glorious European traditions

are no longer able to compete.

Our objective is to present a sustainable sporting project for European club competitions

which should set the framework for a future

European club competition. So on this one, we're joined by the athletics Matt Slater and Adam

Kraften. It never really went away, did it? Adam? Not really. I mean, you know, I mean,

I think most English football fans would be surprised to learn

or maybe not surprised to learn that even the English clubs are still, Matt, am I right in saying

they've not actually extricated themselves yet from the legal process of leaving the Super League?

Not officially.

I remember at the time, people who work at those clubs telling me, you know, we'll be out as soon as we can.

It will be a quick process.

It's not that difficult to get out.

And, you know, the longer that that goes on, I think the more the suspicion is amongst some people in the game, and I think some people outside the game, are they staying in because it is genuinely a really difficult legal process and that's taking a lot of time, or are they just waiting to see what's around the corner, whether opinions start to change, whether 2.0 can be workable in some way, which would maybe avoid them, I don't know, having to pay out whatever they owe from the first time around. Let's deal with this presentation and then that will open up all the other

discussion points really. There was put to clubs last week by A-22. So who are they, Matt? And then

what did they say? Who are A-22? What a question. There are a couple of bankers,

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