The European Super League is suspended

After all the fuss in the previous days about the European Super League, it appears it has now been suspended after the Big 6 from England, Atlético Madrid, and soon enough AC Milan and Inter Milan have left the competition. Barcelona hasn't made a decision yet and will leave it up for a socio vote. So although Messi technically is still in the competition since Barça hasn't left it, the competition is suspended so it most likely won't be played in the next season. Real Madrid and Juventus haven't left yet either, remaining as the only 3 clubs left standing in the competition.

All will continue as usual in the next season then, with Messi playing in the competitions he's always played including the UCL.

There is not much else to report, since Messi hasn't said anything about the competition yet, only a Gatorade ad, an announcement of his new Adidas Nemeziz boots, and an OrCam ad. With nothing else, to say, as always, I'll see you in the next blog.

Messi against European Super League teams

As I promised yesterday, today I will do an entry detailing Messi's statistics against the founding members of the European Super League, minus Barcelona of course. I will divide this into sections to make it more simple.

The first section are the Spanish clubs, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid. I have already detailed Messi's paternity over Real Madrid, with 26 goals and 14 assists in 45 games. Against Atlético Madrid, he's scored 32 goals and made 5 assists in 42 games against them. It makes for a total of 58 goals and 19 assists in 87 games.

Now onto English clubs. I already made a detailed entry about Messi's stats against the Big 6, which can be found here. In total, he has scored 26 goals and gave 6 assists in only 34 games. Another section where Messi has no problem.

And for last, there's the Italian teams: Juventus, AC Milan, and Inter Milan. I did a detailed entry about Messi's stats against all Italian teams he's faced,w which can be found here. Against AC Milan, he has 8 goals and 2 assists in only 8 games, then Juventus, who he has 3 goals and 1 assist against in 7 games, and finally Inter Milan, with 0 goals and 1 assist in 4 games.

In total, he has scored 95 goals and given 29 assists in only 140 to European Super League teams, more than Ronaldo, his closest competitor. So if the tournament is confirmed, we already have a "Mr. European Super League". But until then, I'll see you in the next blog.

The European Super League

With yesterday's announcement, 12 founding members have confirmed the creation of the European Super League, with Barcelona being one of them. UEFA and FIFA have strongly rejected this tournament, so its future is uncertain.

All the information about the competition can be found on their website thesuperleague.com, both the new format of the competition and who the 12 founding clubs are. They expect another 3 to come later and 5 to qualify for the competition. According to some sources, it would start in the next season.

There have been threats by UEFA to all the clubs involved, one of the most harsh ones being the ban of all their players from their national teams. This would mean that Messi wouldn't play the 2022 World Cup or perhaps the 2021 Copa América as well.

This news is all around the globe now, and we may be in front of a new era of football. I will do an entry tomorrow detailing Messi's stats against all of the 12 (minus Barcelona) founding members of the ESL. So until then, I'll see you in the next entry.