Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United in turn abandon the Super League

Gunners player Granit Xhaka during the match against Fulham, in London, on April 18, 2021. Pool via REUTERS - FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA

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The English club Manchester City had been the first to sound the withdrawal.

Chelsea are expected to follow, according to BBC reports.

There remain three Spanish clubs and three other Italians.

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Threats from the highest levels of football and the outcry from supporters' clubs got the better of the mutineers, those from across the Channel at least, almost half of them. Led by Real Madrid and Juventus Turin, these dissident clubs thought to convince the football world by offering more high-stakes matches, and aimed for colossal revenues by securing a permanent ticket in an event almost inaccessible to other teams on the continent. ... These giants of European football finally exploded in full flight so thunderously that they had seceded during the night from Sunday to Monday.

In 48 hours, this private competition project carried by twelve major dissident clubs tore European football ... before faltering in the face of the defections of five of the six English clubs,

led by Manchester City

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After the latter in the early evening of Tuesday, April 20, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham and Arsenal announced their withdrawal from the controversial project of a dissident European Super League, in separate statements.

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After listening to you and the wider football community over the past few days, we are withdrawing from the proposed Super League.

We made a mistake and we apologize for that,

 ”even tweeted the Arsenal Gunners, while Chelsea, the last English club still involved, should soon follow suit, according to the media.

Only six clubs are said to be involved in the Super League: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus.

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