Posts Tagged ‘European Superleague’

Platini and G-14 Compromise on the Champions League

By Tom Dunmore • Nov 14th, 2007 • Category: Politics and Economics

We wrote last week that all the machinations over a European Superleague, a rejigged Champions League and the proposed disbanding of the G-14 spoke of a grand compromise in the making between UEFA and the big clubs. Platini needed to keep the constituency that has supported him, the weaker nations, happy by including more of [...]


The G-14, Michel Platini and the Bluff of the European Superleague

By Tom Dunmore • Nov 7th, 2007 • Category: Politics and Economics

Superleagues, ego, politics, diplomacy, money, money, money. The chess battle between UEFA and Europe’s biggest clubs continues to go on, but today, there was a strong indication the endgame is here.
The G-14, the now misnamed grouping of eighteen elite self-selected European clubs, seems likely to extinguish itself soon with a new organisation apparently to [...]