Gary Neville wants Manchester United and the other five English clubs involved in the breakaway Super League to be hit with £100million fines for withdrawing.
United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal signed up to the breakaway competition on Sunday night, which led to widespread criticism across the football community.
Chelsea fans were among those to make their voices heard with protests outside Stamford Bridge ahead of the 0-0 draw with Brighton.
Chelsea and City were the first to signal their intent to withdraw and all six have now publicly followed suit, with John W Henry apologising in a statement to the Liverpool fans and stakeholders.
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The Super League has not disbanded however and Neville – speaking before all six had withdrawn – wants to see them all punished for joining the competition in the first place, hoping head prick Florentino Perez is able to fine them £100million for their speedy U-turn.
Neville told Sky Sports: “Quite incredible. I think large concern yesterday morning waking up thinking, for me particularly as a United fan, that Joel Glazer had put his name on a statement.
“Which, you think about what they went through in sort of the takeover of United, they withstood a barrage of abuse, it didn’t bother them, they just went through it. And you just thought it was going to be difficult for them to back down.
“They haven’t backed down yet, but the fact that City have obviously enacted the withdrawal procedure and it looks like Chelsea are on the way, it’s done. It’s finished.
“And they’ll have their PR teams, communications teams scrambling around now trying to make this look as lovely as possible in the next 24 hours, working out what the right time is to withdraw from it.
“Perez might have them on a £100million fine. I hope so! I hope Perez has got them on a massive fine to withdraw, the lot of them. And I hope they basically end up eating each other.”
Amid all the fallout from the highly controversial proposal Ed Woodward has said he will step down as United’s executive vice-chairman.
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