What would European football be like for the next 25 years if the European Super League came into being?
A Football Manager 2021 player
has simulated the next
quarter century
without Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester City, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Milan and Juventus to determine a plausible future of according to the algorithms of the popular sports management video game.
The apparently frustrated plan promoted by Andrea Agnelli and Florentino Pérez, among other presidents of the clubs of the old continent, has put on the table a plan that would change the beautiful game as we know it, also shelving a
UEFA Champions League
whose anthem It would never sound the same again.
After the resignation of ten of the twelve founding clubs, it seems that the initiative is on hiatus, but what does the benchmark simulator in the interactive entertainment sector have to say about it?
Founding teams of the Super League;
Only Real Madrid and Barcelona remain without turning back.
Superliga, a Champions League without Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético, Juventus, Manchester…?
FlyingPingoo
, nickname of this user, has preceded as follows. After finishing the league 2021/21,
has dropped to second division
(or equivalent category in other countries) teams like the
big-six
British -Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester City, Liverpool-, the Big Three LaLiga and those mentioned from the Italian Serie A; likewise, he
has left them in the economic queen
so that there was not the slightest possibility that they would qualify for the UEFA Champions League and they turned all their star players into free agents.
The result is surprising, including the future of those who are surely the two most influential players in the football universe in recent decades,
Lionel Messi
and
Cristiano Ronaldo
.
Messi at PSG and coach of Cádiz;
Cristiano Ronaldo, in the grassroots football of Roma
In this way, clubs like PSG were able to take over Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) after the relegation of the Blaugrana without too much problem.
Once his boots were hung up, the Argentine star would train Cádiz and Huesca at a rate of 6,000 euros a week.
Cristiano Ronaldo, meanwhile, would complete his sports career in clubs such as Chinese Shenzhen and Wolverhampton, where he would say goodbye to the pitch.
Italian Roma would be his destination to train grassroots football from 2032 for 17,000 euros a week.
UEFA Champions League until 2045.
UEFA Champions League from 2020 to 2045: Real Sociedad lifts
La Orejona
Although FlyingPingoo has not broken down Laliga results in all these years in the
Premier League
the
Southampton Football Club
would be the main champion of the English Premier League. The
Los Santos team
would win 15 of the next leagues, assuming that the
big-six
was relegated from the top national competition; but the interesting thing comes from the hand of the continental competition. Not content with winning the 2020 Copa del Rey,
Real Sociedad would win the 2041 UEFA Champions League
. The Txuri-urdines would raise Zubieta's name to the top after beating
Southampton
in the final
;
also redeeming the new reality of Spanish football after the defeat of
Sevilla
in 2037/38 against Paris Saint Germain.
The French would accumulate, according to Football Manager 2021, a total of
6
Champions in the next 25 years;
another
8
for
Borussia Dortmund
and another
8
for
FC Bayern Munich
, which would add 14 UEFA Champions League, surpassing the 13 victories for Real Madrid CF until its goodbye in 2021 to enter the Super League.
All of this is, first and foremost, a simulation.
Reality, not in vain, leaves us with a project of which - for now - only Real Madrid and FC Barcelona are still formally registered.
Football Manager 2021 is available on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Android, iPhone, and Nintendo Switch.
Sources |
Reddit, Eurogamer