FILE PHOTO: Metal figures of football players are seen in front of the words European Super League in this illustration taken April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
(Reuters) - The Premier League has told executives from the clubs involved in the breakaway European Super League to step down from key committees or risk being forcibly removed , British media reported.
Premier League Chief Excutive Richard Masters had approached executives from Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City on Wednesday asking them to relinquish their positions on working groups, Sky Sports said.
Tottenham Hotspur are not represented on any of the Premier League s key committees.
Celtic and Rangers wanted in new British Super League following European breakaway collapse Reports this morning have suggested that Celtic and Rangers are being urged to join a breakway British Super League. The Premier League s big six were part of the failed European Super League venture this week, but is understood that they are still convinced that England s top division must be reinvented.
The Sun report, as part of a proposed change, that England s top clubs would like Celtic and Rangers to make the move south as part of a new-look set-up. A source told the paper: “Whether or not the European Super League was going to happen, we all feel the Premier League has to be changed and improved.
Manchester City’s Fernandinho has welcomed the demise of the European Super League (Rui Vieira/PA)
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Manchester City captain Fernandinho believes football has emerged victorious following the collapse of the breakaway European Super League.
Yet as clubs were forced into humbling apologies, the fall-out from the seismic and shambolic episode seemed far from over as the six English sides involved faced the possibility of Premier League sanctions.
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Masters makes first moves to limit influence of the rebel six Lyndon Lloyd Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
The domestic response to an attempt by six Premier League clubs to form a breakaway Super League has begun with moves to strip executives from five of the clubs involved from various influential sub-committees.
According to Sky Sports News, Premier League CEO Richard Masters requested today that executives at the clubs leave their roles on working groups associated with governance of the domestic top flight.
Sky say that club sources indicated that Bruce Buck, Chelsea chairman and a member of the Premier League s audit and remuneration committee, and both Vinai Venkatesham, Arsenal chief executive, and Ferran Soriano at Manchester City, who sit on the Club Strategic Advisory Group (CSAG), were asked to step down voluntarily or face being forcibly removed.