Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy ‘shaken’ by European Super League backlash as Chelsea and Man City QUIT
SPURS chairman Daniel Levy has been “shaken” by the Super league backlash.
On Tuesday, he told Brighton chief executive Paul Barber to pass on details of a conversation they had before the 14 clubs left out of the breakaway plans met with League chief Richard Masters.
In a message that gave the other clubs confidence they had the rebels on the run and could kill off the proposals, the Spurs chief conceded he may have misjudged the mood of the nation.
Barber, who previously served on the board at White Hart Lane told the clubs Levy said this was “not what I wanted, or expected”
The Brighton exec added: “Daniel says this all grew from a feeling that Uefa simply doesn’t listen to us as a League.
“He believes the big clubs deserve more respect and more money.”
But while Levy’s message was viewed by the clubs as the first recognition of the scale of the mistake, it did not spare him and the rest of the Big Six from the wrath of the 14 left on the outside.
One club source revealed: “Paul was told to pass on a simple message back – that Daniel and the rest of them were destroying all of us by this act.
“We are all still seething at what has gone on. Every single one of us.
“There is no sympathy at all for Levy or anyone else involved. They’re the ones who put us in this position because of their greed.”
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Another club boss added: “Daniel can paint himself as a victim but nobody was buying that at all. It’s too late for that.”
This evening, the pressure became too much for two of the Big Six as it emerged Chelsea and Man City were pulling out.
There is an expectation that Arsenal will follow them – leaving the Super League plans in tatters.
Tottenham have not indicated their intentions.
Cracks have also opened at Manchester United, with executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward sensational QUITTING amid the furore over the breakaway league.
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