Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Proposals for a breakaway European Super League involving Manchester City and Manchester United were announced over the weekend.
Under the plans United, City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and six other European sides would take part in a rival competition to the Champions League.
It is anticipated three more clubs would join the breakaway group as founding members with the new competition, which will begin “as soon as practicable” to eventually feature 20 teams.
The new competition would be played in midweek with the eventual 15 founding members being joined by five qualifiers. It would initially be two groups of 10 with an eight-team knockout stage.
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