How Sanjeev Gupta sold his green revolution to British politicians
On a bright June evening in 2015, Sanjeev Gupta was in front of a crowd gathered at the Celtic Manor Resort hotel near Newport. One of the companies in the industry family was Polo’s new sponsor at Manor as an event highlighting the highlights of the Welsh social season.
Gupta was on a roll. The day before, he and his father, PK Gupta, celebrated the inauguration of the last addition to the family empire, the coal-fired power plant in nearby Uskmouth.
In the group Alun Cairns, along with Conservative MP for Glamorgan Vale, was preparing the stage for a fascinating vision that the Gupta site would become a renewable energy hub. feed the adjacent steel industry he acquired it two years earlier.
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Not the brains behind the proposed European Super League, that is for sure.
Just days after the fanfare and fury of Sunday’s announcement that the continent’s self-appointed top teams would break away from domestic competition to form their own exclusive league, with no promotion and no relegation – yet eye-wateringly lucrative potential TV rights – the plans lay in tatters.
So what went wrong?
Football fans across Europe were put in the unusual position of agreeing with former Manchester United captain Gary Neville, when his blistering excoriation of the plans on Sky Sports went viral on Sunday evening.
Gary Neville is the people s hero right now. Unreal piece of television about the European Super League. pic.twitter.com/ypdQbdQfs7
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Clubs sign mega 23-year deals for new Super League Those thinking the new European Super League is simply a threat have been put in their place, with an insider revealing key details of the deals.
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Subscriber only The 12 football clubs forming a breakaway European Super League have signed 23-year contracts for the new format with insiders categorically denying that the proposals are simply a negotiating tactic. On Monday a senior figure close to the new league said that the clubs were determined to push on despite a huge backlash from fans, politicians and players past and present.