Gary Neville Criticizes Super League Instigators and Calls for Football Regulator
In a recent interview on The Overlap, Gary Neville has expressed his strong disapproval of Liverpool and the other five clubs involved in the Super League breakaway, referring to them as “bullies.” He has also called for the establishment of an independent regulator to oversee the English football system.
Neville stated, “It’s too complex for them (Premier League), they can’t control their own mob, let alone create a multi-club international new strategy, that’s not going to happen. They’re not capable of those things, the people in the Premier League haven’t got the skillset to deliver this type of operation. We need to get back to basics, real-time financial monitoring in football, create what football clubs can lose each year, what football clubs can put in as owner funding and monitor it on a very strict basis, equalize the rules across the four leagues and make the consequences of not doing so consistent.”
“So everyone knows the damages if you’re found guilty, at the moment it’s making it up as you go along. The Premier League is broken in terms of governance, the stamp down after the ESL was unbelievable. I’d be furious if I was an Everton fan, it’s an absolute disgrace what you’ve done to my football club.
On the other hand, Everton have done wrong and created a financial crime within the game, an irregularity, so they should be punished. What they feel they’re now being is the scapegoat, the ‘new Premier League’, which doesn’t exist really.”
“The big six, they are bullies, they’ve done it to Everton, would the Premier League have done this to a Manchester United, Manchester City, a Chelsea, they wouldn’t probably do that. It’s basically a rewrite of Ste’s piece but for Liverpool audience I suppose.”
