Super League news LIVE: Barcelona and Real Madrid only clubs left standing after ‘big six’ lead exodus

“The younger ones want to watch significant events. They are not as attached to domestic competition as the previous generations, including mine. A third of the fans worldwide follow the Super League clubs, the 10per cent follows footballers, not clubs, and the most worrying stat is that those between 16 and 24 years old have no interest in football whatsoever.

“The Super League simulates what young people do on digital platforms in competition with Call of Duty, FIFA or Fortnite,” he continued.

Gary Neville has criticised Manchester United’s communication following their exit from the European Super League.

United were one of the 12 leading European clubs to commit to joining a new breakaway competition intended to rival the Champions League.

The move came in for heavy criticism from fans and politicians alike with football figures such as Gary Neville hugely vocal in their opposition.

United, alongside the other five ‘big six’ Premier League clubs - Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal - then proceeded to climb down officially walking away from the proposal on Tuesday evening.

Setting up a breakaway Super League was a “spectacular miscalculation” by Europe’s heavyweight clubs, according to a fans’ chief.

Manchester City were the first of the 12 founder members announced on Sunday night to say they had begun the process to withdraw from the controversial competition, and by 11pm they had been joined by Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham, while Chelsea were understood to be preparing to do the same.

Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, one of the key orchestrators of the breakaway, also announced he is leaving the club at the end of the year on a dramatic night.

Football fans celebrated on Tuesday evening as the controversial European Super League was on the verge of crashing down fewer than 48 hours after 12 powerful clubs announced the breakaway venture.

Chelsea and Manchester City became the first clubs to ditch the Super League in the wake of a monstrous backlash against the idea, which proposed ditching Uefa’s Champions League and concentrating money and power within the ‘founding’ members.

The memes soon started up as football fans began revelling in the news that the widely despised Super League format was clearly losing momentum.

The Super League project is going ahead and has a 100 per cent chance of being a success despite the six English Premier League clubs quitting, Juventus President Andrea Agnelli said in an interview with an Italian daily published on Wednesday.

The interview was carried out before a meeting by the European Super League (ESL) late on Tuesday.

“There is a blood pact among our clubs, we will press ahead,” Agnelli told newspaper la Repubblica when asked whether the Super League was sinking after some clubs had decided to leave two days after the breakaway plan was launched.

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