Rodriguez: Football should not benefit the few

Lyndon Lloyd Tuesday, 20 April, 2021 7comments | Jump to most recent

James Rodriguez has come out against the Super League and Lucas Digne offered his own message of protest as the fallout from Sunday's announcement continued to rock the football world.

Everton issued a strongly-worded statement that has become the rallying message for the 14 Premier League clubs excluded from the breakaway venture earlier today and Farhad Moshiri expressed his dismay on TalkSport.

Digne posted a message to Instagram backing the notion that without fans, football is nothing. Rodriguez, meanwhile, reiterated the message that has reverberated through the game; namely that fairness and genuine competition are sacrosanct.

"I do not agree at all," the Colombian said.

"The spice is taken away from soccer, the teams that formed it benefit themselves. When you are a child, you dream of playing a champions league or a world cup, not a super league.

“I do not agree at all," the Colombian said of the plans for a breakaway Super League.

"The spice is taken away from soccer, the teams that formed it benefit themselves. When you are a child, you dream of playing a champions league or a world cup, not a super league.

“The spice is taken away from soccer [when] the teams that formed it benefit themselves.

“When you are a child, you dream of playing in a Champions League or a World Cup, not a super league.

“If because of the pandemic, the big clubs have had a bad time, imagine the small ones. They suffered a lot.”

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Will Mabon
1 Posted 21/04/2021 at 00:21:57

Bit of an edit needed there, Lyndon.

Bill Gienapp
2 Posted 21/04/2021 at 00:51:39

James just wants to make it abundantly clear that "the spice" is taken away from soccer, Will.

Peter Gorman
3 Posted 21/04/2021 at 08:29:32

To be fair, Bill, it is probably the least repetitive thing posted on TW

Adam Fenlon
4 Posted 21/04/2021 at 09:45:13

We want spicy football!

Rob Halligan
5 Posted 21/04/2021 at 09:56:44

James, I think we all get your message!!

Brian Porter
6 Posted 21/04/2021 at 15:32:55

Well said, James, and Lucas, too.

Brent Stephens
7 Posted 21/04/2021 at 15:54:36

Well said, James.

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