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Manager takes dim view of 12 clubs joining breakaway league
‘It’s not fair if a team fights at the top and cannot qualify’

Pep Guardiola has launched a scathing attack on the proposed European Super League, with Manchester City’s manager stating “it is not a sport” if teams are guaranteed to play in it each season. City are one of 12 founder members of the ESL, yet Guardiola is fiercely critical of the format of a 20-club league of which 15 are planned to be the same every year.
“If you ask me [why] these teams have been selected, I don’t know the reason why,” he said. “It is not a sport where the relation between the effort and the success, the effort and the reward, does not exist. It is not a sport where success is already guaranteed or it is not a sport when it doesn’t matter where you lose. Continue reading...