The Premier League is relegated from the Super League

City were the first founding club to announce their rejection of the competition, followed by United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool.

Five of the English clubs are abandoning the European Super League project, following in the footsteps of Manchester City.

The clubs that stood among the twelve founding members of the new competition have begun proceedings to leave the Super League.

Manchester City were the first to make it official on Tuesday afternoon, after it was leaked that Chelsea would abandon the project. Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur will not continue in the Super League either.

“Manchester City Football Club can confirm that it has formally enacted procedures to withdraw from the group developing plans for a European Super League”, The club said in a brief press release.

The Citizens, according to British media reports, doubted the Superliga from the beginning, although they came together as a measure of pressure against the UEFA and FIFA. In less than 48 hours after making the championship official, the club he runs Josep Guardiola, Announced his departure from the tournament chaired by Florentino Perez.

In addition, Chelsea are also expected to take the same course, as their fans showed up hours before the match against Brigthon of England. According to some versions, the club that is owned by Romanian Abramovich will also come out of the Superliga.

the Superliga was an effort between 12 of the most powerful clubs in the world, considering the Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, Liverpool, Who sought to make a tournament between them, instead of playing the Champions League, year after year.

The estimates, according to a statement from the tournament itself, were that each club would receive three thousand three-500 million euros and its president, Florentino Pérez, In an interview with the Chiringuito of Spain, said it was an initiative to “save football.”

Manchester City is the first club to give up the plan it had started on Sunday night, after its coach and fans turned down a proposal for a tournament that was expected to start next August.

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